Overactive fan

[MacKenzie999]

Hey folks...

I have a dual G5/2.0 running 10.3.9, and lately my fans seem very active*. I even returned home today, had been awy from my mac for a couple of hours and the fan was humming away. Any utilities or procedures you can recommend to investigate / fix this situation is appreciated. Granted, this is one of the 1st warm days in Boston, but my apt. is not overly hot.

Thanks!
-Mike

*The ones in my mac, not the hordes screaming outside for me to dangle my baby out the window

 

[ChrisFromCanada]

Have a look at Activity Monitor and see if anything is maxing out your CPU. It is located in you utilities folder.

 

[MacKenzie999]

Have a look at Activity Monitor and see if anything is maxing out your CPU. It is located in you utilities folder.

Checked that out, thanks; not exactly sure what I'm looking for but there appears to be a decent amount of ram available if that's any indication. A surprising amount of virtual memory happening though, at least surprising to me, a non-techie type.

I neglected to mention before, I have 2gb ram.

 

[mad jew]

I got a bit of a psycho fan when I was trying to burn a CD yesterday using iTunes. Eventually the whole thing crashed, I repaired permissions, restarted and it was fine but I've got no idea if this is related. I'm using a G4 iBook.

 

[Nermal]

A surprising amount of virtual memory happening though, at least surprising to me, a non-techie type.

OS X will eat as much RAM as it can and will use virtual memory whether it needs it or not. I'm sure it knows what it's doing