Fan is going super loud when BTT touchbar is being used

Discussion & Questions
1

Hi @Andreas_Hegenberg
My fan on my laptop is going super loud when the BTT touchbar is being used. I'm using AQT.

Untitled 3
Untitled 31178×704 189 KB

Thanks

2

This is usually caused by continuously running Apple or Shell scripts, thus trying to reduce the use of such in your used preset might help.

You can post a process sample taken via Activity Monitor, this might tell where it is spending most CPU time.

3

I don't know how to understand the Activity Monitor. Can you lead me through what to do please?

4

@Future_Face

  1. Open Activity Monitor.
  2. Switch to CPU tab.
  3. Sort by CPU % descending.
  4. Consider what’s at the top.

The health warning is not to try to kill things like kernel_task.

1 Like
5

thanks.
@Andreas_Hegenberg, just to be clear, did u want me to post a pic of it? (

6

if so, here we are.

;qirgqiur
;qirgqiur1926×1280 437 KB

7

Well, Sam, you might’ve tried to obscure your userid/name. :slight_smile:

Seriously, that display shows the CPU is at a perfectly healthy low utilisation. I can’t say if 10% for BetterTouchTool is high or not. It’s not threatening, though.

I would guess the SMC reset route is indicated. But I’ll leave that to others.

1 Like
8

haha, thanks very much!

9

With process sample I mean this:

image
image1063×448 147 KB

(select the BetterTouchTool process, then click Sample Process)

10

what do I do once ive done that? I tried copy and pasting it into here, but I reached the limit of words...

11

you can attach it as a file or send it to andreas@folivora.ai :slight_smile:

1 Like
12

emailed it to you as I couldn't upload it here bc of the file type (.txt)