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MacBook - Continuously Running Fans
#7030 12/28/09 02:13 AM
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My daughter's MacBook fans started running continuously about a week and a half ago. In twenty minutes she will lose 30% of her battery power. This is a big problem as she attends three hour lectures.

Her machine is 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and she's running OS 10.5.8

We've reset PRAM, reset the SMC, done Permissions and Disk Repair with Disk Utility. We also rebuilt with Disk Warrior. So far, nada.

Her Maglink may provide a clue to this problem as I note that gets quite hot - but only on her machine. I am currently charging my other daughter's MacBook with the same MagLink and it's remaining cool.

I have now done a SafeBoot but the result is the same - fans come on high and run continuously

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Thanks for the update.




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Oh... you wanted some suggestions? shocked


wink   How about determining which process is hogging the CPU?
The built-in tool for that would be Activity Monitor. [sort by CPU]

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Originally Posted By: Hal Itosis
How about determining which process is hogging the CPU?
The built-in tool for that would be Activity Monitor. [sort by CPU]


Thanks and okay.

Here's the CPU usage list with both Real and Virtual memory use figures.

223 Activity Monitor 16.39 MB 971.53 MB Intel
122 AirPort Base Station Agent .98 MB 891.66 MB Intel
129 ATSServer 3.52 MB 630.52 MB Intel
128 Dock 9.95 MB 897.98 MB Intel
133 Finder 7.53 MB 922.37 MB Intel
144 iTunes Helper 2.32 MB 848.64 MB Intel

102 launchd 520.00 KB 585.74 MB Intel

45 loginwindow 4.95 MB 866.99 MB Intel
100 mdworker 3.59 MB 600.51 MB Intel
145 Microsoft AU Daemon 9.30 MB 924.15 MB PowerPC

132 pboard 588.00 KB 586.63 MB Intel

153 Safari 33.15 MB 961.82 MB Intel
126 Spotlight 4.00 MB 860.40 MB Intel
131 SystemUIServer 9.83 MB 925.83 MB Intel
127 UserEventAgent 2.69 MB 589.53 MB Intel

PS - Sorry about the data display. I don't know how to make columns in our FTM editor.

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Re: MacBook - Continuously Running Fans
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Is this what Activity Monitor shows when the fans are spinning at full speed? I don't see anything running here that your daughter might be using to take notes. You left out the most critical piece of information as well which is the percentage of the CPU being used by each app.

Don't worry about the formatting, it aint easy to do, if you can do it at all. In this case the main things we need to see is the task name and percentage of CPU it is using. The total percentage of CPU utilization for the User, System, and Total would also be informative.


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Hmm-okay... but i don't see where you show CPU usage there.

Try this Terminal command, and post a few samples (i.e., when the fans are ramped up):

ps -axcr -o pid,%cpu=-%CPU,time,command |sed '1,11!d'


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joemikeb #7048 12/28/09 06:09 PM
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Hopefully this is better. The first set of data were from sorting by CPU on the
bottom of the window. This sort is from the top.

104 pboard 0.0 1 588.00 KB 586.63 MB Intel
35 loginwindow 0.0 3 5.10 MB 916.32 MB Intel
117 AppleSpell.service 0.0 1 2.21 MB 601.73 MB Intel
74 launchd 0.0 3 524.00 KB 585.74 MB Intel
111 iTunes Helper 0.0 2 2.33 MB 848.64 MB Intel
93 AirPort Base Station Agent 0.0 3 2.98 MB 891.66 MB Intel
102 ATSServer 0.0 2 6.64 MB 639.41 MB Intel
72 mdworker 0.0 4 3.81 MB 632.26 MB Intel
116 TextEdit 0.0 2 9.91 MB 928.91 MB Intel
99 Dock 0.0 3 10.36 MB 898.30 MB Intel
97 Spotlight 0.0 2 3.98 MB 860.40 MB Intel
98 UserEventAgent 0.0 3 2.67 MB 589.52 MB Intel
101 SystemUIServer 0.0 8 9.76 MB 925.74 MB Intel
112 Microsoft AU Daemon 0.0 2 9.39 MB 924.15 MB PowerPC
103 Finder 0.0 7 9.28 MB 928.49 MB Intel
135 PubSubAgent 0.0 3 3.50 MB 588.53 MB Intel
126 (null) 0.0 3 15.84 MB 1,006.90 MB PowerPC
134 Safari 0.1 8 24.89 MB 955.28 MB Intel
123 (null) 1.8 6 65.42 MB 1.31 GB PowerPC
119 Activity Monitor 2.3 5 18.67 MB 974.66 MB Intel

Percentages - CPU
User 53
System 0.50
Nice 0.00
Idle 48.5

Percentages - System Memory
Free 1.32 GB
Wired 270.04 MB
Active 376.24 MB
Inactive 31.87 MB
Used 677.33 MB

I'm not sure how to collect the other data requested. Fans are running for the last few minutes I've been doing this and battery has dropped from 100% to 80 %

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Originally Posted By: Hal Itosis
Hmm-okay... but i don't see where you show CPU usage there.

Try this Terminal command, and post a few samples (i.e., when the fans are ramped up):

ps -axcr -o pid,%cpu=-%CPU,time,command |sed '1,11!d'



Here's the first:

PID -%CPU TIME COMMAND
65 99.1 26:00.43 Canon_MP530_FAX___1
123 1.5 0:28.74 LaunchCFMApp
174 0.0 0:00.12 mdworker
161 0.0 0:00.01 -bash
160 0.0 0:00.05 login
159 0.0 0:00.51 Terminal
134 0.0 0:19.39 Safari
131 0.0 0:00.00 smbd
130 0.0 0:00.06 smbd
126 0.0 0:01.17 LaunchCFMApp


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And another.....Ill wait a few minutes before taking another sample.

PID -%CPU TIME COMMAND
65 100.0 28:08.22 Canon_MP530_FAX___1
123 1.6 0:31.05 LaunchCFMApp
161 0.0 0:00.01 -bash
160 0.0 0:00.05 login
159 0.0 0:01.04 Terminal
134 0.0 0:21.16 Safari
131 0.0 0:00.00 smbd
130 0.0 0:00.06 smbd
126 0.0 0:01.21 LaunchCFMApp
120 0.0 0:11.43 pmTool


UPDATE: I notice that both sets of data have reference to a Canon Fax but the machine is not connected t one. In fact, this Canon Fax machine is several hundred kilometers away at my daughter's home.

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And a third set.......and the battery capacity has now dropped to 70%.

PID -%CPU TIME COMMAND
65 99.1 35:06.58 Canon_MP530_FAX___1
123 2.0 0:38.56 LaunchCFMApp
134 0.8 0:27.29 Safari
59 0.3 0:25.42 WindowServer
119 0.1 0:28.16 Activity Monitor
130 0.0 0:00.06 smbd
126 0.0 0:01.33 LaunchCFMApp
120 0.0 0:14.49 pmTool
117 0.0 0:00.22 AppleSpell
116 0.0 0:02.12 TextEdit


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No more calls please... we have a winner!!!

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UPDATE: I notice that both sets of data have reference to a Canon Fax but the machine is not connected t one. In fact, this Canon Fax machine is several hundred kilometers away at my daughter's home.

Well, the machine may be anywhere... but let's see where the process is. Just eliminate the -c option to get a full pathname:

ps -axr -o pid,%cpu=-%CPU,time,command |sed '1,3!d'

[i also went from listing the top 10 to just the top 2]

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Hal Itosis #7057 12/28/09 07:40 PM
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Thanks Hal:

Just to make sure I understand (getting dozy in my old age), I should enter the command line you've provided into Terminal.

Does that mean this command will straighten out whatever problem the Canon code is causing?

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Originally Posted By: ryck
Just to make sure I understand (getting dozy in my old age), I should enter the command line you've provided into Terminal.
Yes.

Originally Posted By: ryck
Does that mean this command will straighten out whatever problem the Canon code is causing?
No. . . but it will pinpoint the location of the problem program, and from that we can probably deduce the rest.

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No. . . but it will pinpoint the location of the problem program, and from that we can probably deduce the rest.


UPDATE: I've entered the Command line and Terminal responded with many, many lines. Are they of interest?

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How you feeling . . . fine?

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How you feeling . . . fine?


Not sure. After letting the machine cool down, we did a restart and opened quite a few apps and have fan noise although not as loud as before. We're about to head out on a planned event and will be back in a couple of hours.

Meanwhile, just in case that additional information is helpful, I'm attaching it. The only change is a substitution "daughter" for her full name.

Talk to you shortly

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Macintosh-5:~ daughter$ ps -axr -o pid,%cpu=-%CPU,time,command |sed '1,3!d'
PID -%CPU TIME COMMAND
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job-uuid=urn:uuid:4b41151c-d289-3750-6e0b-a03cd6418f50 /private/var/spool/cups/d00089-001
128 0.0 0:00.00 ps -axr -o pid
Macintosh-5:~ daughter$

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Re: MacBook - Continuously Running Fans
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$ ps -axr -o pid,%cpu=-%CPU,time,command |sed '1,3!d'
PID -%CPU TIME COMMAND
68 98.5 4:21.63 Canon_MP530_FAX___1 89 daughter Windows Live Hotmail 1
:
:
:

com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMCopyCollate..b. job-uuid=urn:uuid:4b41151c-d289-3750-6e0b-a03cd6418f50 /private/var/spool/cups/d00089-001

Interesting... i duplicated a very similar output here (by printing), and the path to the app doesn't show up.
Anyway, the culprit is probably at this location...

/Users/"daughter"/Library/Printers/Canon_MP530_FAX___1.app

It seems to be trying to print some document called "Windows Live Hotmail 1".

I think the thing to do is to pause the print queue and delete that job (and perhaps any others that may
be hanging around?). Go to System Preferences --> Print & Fax and select the "Canon_MP530..." goober
(which hopefully is in the list of printers). Click on the button there called "Open Print Queue..." and the
interface to the Canon_MP530 application should become visible. Use either the toolbar or the menus to
pause printing, [select and] hold jobs and -- ultimately -- delete whatever jobs you deem necessary.

If no "Canon_MP530..." goobers appear in the System Preferences --> Print & Fax area, then go to that folder
and (hopefully the app is there so you can) move it to the trash... i guess.  Let's hope plan "A" works anyway.
Otherwise, further cleaning may involve going into the /private/var/spool/cups/ folder armed with sudo.

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Re: MacBook - Continuously Running Fans
Hal Itosis #7066 12/28/09 11:29 PM
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Let's hope plan "A" works anyway.


Hi Hal:

Just got back.

We appear to have lift-off. The document "Windows Live Hotmail 1" was in the print queue and my daughter deleted it. Immediately the fan sound diminished.

My daughter asked me to pass along her thanks. It is a great relief.

FYI: I've asked her to plug in her Maglink so that we can get to the bottom of the overheating (It heats up while charging her MacBook but not while charging my other daughter's.) I'm hoping it's related to the same problem and is now fixed. A twofer would be nice.

UPDATE: Several hours have passed; the Maglink is charging without the excessive heat; the fans are quiet; and the battery is lasting much longer. Great.

Thanks again.

ryck

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Re: MacBook - Continuously Running Fans
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\o/


And thanks to you for making it possible for me to help someone else.
It feels good doing something useful occasionally, to provide a break
in my "alpha-geek internet-tough-guy posturing" routine. [or such was
the wordage in a recent scolding i received.]

Re: MacBook - Continuously Running Fans
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Interesting topic, especially the Canon MP530 with MacBook part of it. As it happens, my daughter’s MacBook (2008 model, Mac OS 10.5.8) every once in a while displays similar sustained high fan noises. (I haven’t checked the power adapter temperature under those circumstances, but will if it happens again.) Her default printer at home is an MP530. No other Mac in the household (iMacs, MB, MBP) displays similar fan issues with the MP530. When I looked into it with Activity Monitor the few times I noticed the MacBook going through this attempt-to-take-off routine, it turned out that a clearly Canon-driver related file (the exact name of which eludes me now) was hogging the CPU. In only one case a file was stuck in the Print queue.

At the same time, I noted CCAAgent (Cisco Clean Access) sucking the remaining CPU cycles. Killing both processes solved the fan issue; I cannot say if killing the Canon process alone would have done this because I didn’t try that. I recently noted that CCAAgent is regularly using 80-150% of her CPU cycles regardless of printing; this is not accompanied with excessive fan speeds or noise. CCAAgent is required by many colleges to access their networks, and (I suppose) can be disabled when away from school. Beyond taxing the CPU, I wonder if this software could be involved more directly in my daughter’s printing related fan issues at home. However, that may be a topic for a different thread elsewhere. Still, the coincidence is intriguing.


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Re: MacBook - Continuously Running Fans
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CCAAgent (Cisco Clean Access)

I'm unfamiliar with "CCAAgent" -- but (in terms of Macs), google turned up this recent discussion:
Cisco Clean Access (CCA) Agent & Snow Leopard

Re: MacBook - Continuously Running Fans
Hal Itosis #7107 12/29/09 10:21 PM
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Indeed, but the topic of the thread you link to centers on an apparent incompatibility of a CCAAgent version with Snowy. Still, I've seen a few other references to noisy fans and CCAAgent, hence my suspicion of complicity there. Fortunately, CCAAgent can be quit at home; it remains to be seen if the fan issue reappears under those circumstances.


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