I wanted to ask about this because it didn't happened to me before with other linux distributions (i.e Fedora or Mint)
For whatever reason the HDD in the laptop runs very hot, so hot that is really uncomfortable to write with my hand touching the laptop.
I've tried several software pieces to check what may be happening and I detected a high I/O from gala.
- Why does "gala" have an I/O percentage so high?
- Is this normal even in idle state?
iotop
max@linux-max:~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +49.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
temp2: +0.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
temp3: +44.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
temp4: +50.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
temp5: +27.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
temp6: +127.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0: +50.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 0: +49.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: +50.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
top
max@linux-max:~$ top
top - 11:27:24 up 1:01, 6 users, load average: 0.26, 0.30, 0.33
Tasks: 226 total, 1 running, 225 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 2.8 us, 0.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.9 id, 2.6 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 16309500 total, 3468488 used, 12841012 free, 446700 buffers
KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 0 used, 2097148 free. 1350980 cached Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
7714 root 20 0 80308 15736 7348 S 4.6 0.1 0:23.06 iotop
1350 root 20 0 340740 73144 56096 S 3.7 0.4 1:24.67 Xorg
2414 max 20 0 613640 36952 26424 S 3.3 0.2 0:21.44 pantheon-termin
2550 max 20 0 1905892 869704 98484 S 3.0 5.3 8:30.09 firefox
2005 max 20 0 1035020 123108 37832 S 2.7 0.8 0:39.35 gala
iotop
Total DISK READ : 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE : 0.00 B/s
Actual DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s
TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO COMMAND
2005 be/4 max 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 11.34 % gala
1 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % init
2 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kthreadd]
3 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0]
5 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/0:0H]
2054 be/4 max 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % indicator-messages-service
7 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [rcu_sched]
smartctl
max@linux-max:~$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep Temperature_Cel
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 065 056 045 Old_age Always - 35 (Min/Max 20/36)
Any suggestions on what else to check or what can I do to lower the temperature for the HDD would be greatly appreciated.
Max
