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I wanted this app to exist. Now it does! I sometimes face thermal throttling because a process has gone wacko, and all I have to do is kill it. But first I hav
by jtbayly 10mo ago
I wanted this app to exist. Now it does!
I sometimes face thermal throttling because a process has gone wacko, and all I have to do is kill it. But first I have to notice it.
I rarely notice until half my battery is gone!
- Neywiny 10mo agoYou know what, fair point. I know because my fans go haywire (except that one time my fans decided to just not work until I ran some incantations. The joys of Linux). If you're passively cooled, you get no feedback on CPU load. Makes sense.
- jtbayly 10mo agoYeah I’m on a MacBook Air, so no fans.
- angristan 10mo agoIndeed, that's why apps like iStat Menus, Stats, Sensei etc (for macOS at least) are very useful, I keep the CPU usage and power usage in my menu bar at all times, this is very useful on battery. For example I know that my Macbook Air idles at ~2W-5W, so if I'm doing nothing special and it's using 15W, a process is doing some funny stuff