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10.5: More control of fan speeds on iMacs and laptops
Authored by: ajmanik on Thu, Jul 31 2008 at 10:38AM PDT

Have you considered integrating the small code fix at the URL below? Apprently it really helps reduce the CPU load of the application. http://www.lobotomo.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1195271718

10.5: More control of fan speeds on iMacs and laptops
Authored by: BryanD on Wed, Aug 20 2008 at 4:07PM PDT

No ... because that posting is bogus (or at least any time I've ever checked it, it's always been below 0.2%, normally 0.1%) and the change wouldn't be that simple in my enhanced versions.

If you want to verify this on your system, in the Terminal, run the command (on OS X 10.5.x):


/usr/bin/top -Swu -s 5

and see what you get under the %CPU column for FanControl.