I've been noticing for a while now that when I am not using my mini it tends to be warm to the touch. Not burning mind you, just warm. I was wondering if maybe the fan turns itself off after a while so I finally turned on logging with TG Pro and left it for on for about 48 hours.
What I found is interesting, but it isn't quite telling me what the cause is. I turned on TG Pro logging around 6:30 PM on June 4th and the average temperature (AT) was around 50˚. I was actively using the Mac for a couple hours and the AT went down to 40-41˚ and held there steadily. I logged off around 8:30 PM and the AT when unchanged from ~40˚. It stayed that way dropping down to ~38˚ here and there until 7:19 on June 5th when the AT jumped to 43˚ and started rising until it held ~57˚ around 7:30. It stayed there until 1:33 PM on June 6th (today). During this time the CPU average was over ~65˚. Whatever the mini is doing it is a CPU task as the GPU temp only seems to be changing as the AT rises and falls. The AT dropped to 36˚ with the CPU average being 41˚ until 2:36 PM when the CPU temp jumped to 60˚, eventually going back up to 65˚ about 10 min later, and the AT rose gradually back to it's previous ~57˚ mark until I logged in. Since then, like every other time, the temperature gradually falls as I use the computer.
For the record I have Content Caching on, Time Machine updates every hour, but as far as I know neither of those would explain what the CPU is working on for hours and hours at a time. Activity Monitor isn't useful as far as I can tell because it doesn't give me historical information that I could use with my log timestamps to figure out the culprit.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
What I found is interesting, but it isn't quite telling me what the cause is. I turned on TG Pro logging around 6:30 PM on June 4th and the average temperature (AT) was around 50˚. I was actively using the Mac for a couple hours and the AT went down to 40-41˚ and held there steadily. I logged off around 8:30 PM and the AT when unchanged from ~40˚. It stayed that way dropping down to ~38˚ here and there until 7:19 on June 5th when the AT jumped to 43˚ and started rising until it held ~57˚ around 7:30. It stayed there until 1:33 PM on June 6th (today). During this time the CPU average was over ~65˚. Whatever the mini is doing it is a CPU task as the GPU temp only seems to be changing as the AT rises and falls. The AT dropped to 36˚ with the CPU average being 41˚ until 2:36 PM when the CPU temp jumped to 60˚, eventually going back up to 65˚ about 10 min later, and the AT rose gradually back to it's previous ~57˚ mark until I logged in. Since then, like every other time, the temperature gradually falls as I use the computer.
For the record I have Content Caching on, Time Machine updates every hour, but as far as I know neither of those would explain what the CPU is working on for hours and hours at a time. Activity Monitor isn't useful as far as I can tell because it doesn't give me historical information that I could use with my log timestamps to figure out the culprit.
Does anyone have any suggestions?