NIghtly oddness

Just doing some testing with the "new" Toshiba Sat L305D.  Wanted to see how it handled USB booting, so last night I had Upup Raring up and running, and it worked like a flying charm.  So, tonight, thought I'd fire up MacPup and see how that went.

Everything worked OK.  Had the normal odd little bit getting the sound going, but everything else was great.  But, as I was watching a video on YouTube,  I noticed the fan running.  Hard.  And quite early on.

Now, of course, I've heard the fan run on this system.  But it usually takes a bit before it kicks on.  This was kick on early, and keep running.  And running. 

Hmmm...

My first impulse was Enlightenment.  For whatever reason, I have a slight suspicion of Enlightenment when it comes to overworking processors.  Every system I had Bodhi Linux (which is, of course, built to order with Enlightenment) on tended to run a bit hot.  My feeble, jump-to-conclusions mind immediately made the connection.

So, I shut MacPup down and pulled out PhatSlacko.  Booted up, and everything seemed fine.  I went through the usual Puppy-on-a-new-system sound thing, and had to enable tapping on the touchpad, but other than that...

And then the damned fan kicked on.

A quick check of Htop showed next to no load on the cores.  And, jeez, this is running JMM, so the graphics drag shouldn't be much of anything.  So...

I really should find the compressed air can, and give the vents a good going over.  But I really just don't feel like opening the system up to give it a real dusting. 

I don't know.  I'll just have to keep an eye on it.  I'm not working in a hot environment, and there's plenty of ventilation around the system...

This, on top of the little Sony Vaio suddenly developing heavy fan use syndrome...

Another thing for the obsessive-compulsive to worry about...

I'll just have to keep an eye on it, see what happens next......