Fan runs high or hot

[beffective]

I am on a Tuxedo Laptop Auren Gen 1 with AMD CPU and Fedora 41 KDE 6.3 and Brave Version 1.76.82 Chromium: 134.0.6998.178 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)

My laptop fan runs high or hot in specific situations.

It does so primarily when I use video conferencing or open YouTube tabs to review. It seems to run high when video is being used. A few times, it was due to a lot of multiple images from a Facebook profile on a screen.

Is this a bug? Or is there a troubleshooting process to employ to determine a solution?

Expect the fan not to run high.

I used Tuxedo’s app, Tuxedo Control Center, to control the fan and keep it low during a video conference. However, it doesn’t always do so. I will try another solution: removing hardware acceleration, but that doesn’t seem to be the solution.

Thanks in advance for any troubleshooting suggestions.

[289wk]

Please test by Disabling GPU Acceleration (aka hardware acceleration) in your Brave Browser settings.

“Use graphics acceleration when available”

Location of that setting:

[beffective]

I did so before submission, which reduces the issue overall. However, I often use video conferencing and review videos or multiple images for work. The fan issue pops up and pivots consistently on these scenarios. I’ve been troubleshooting the issue since the New Year and Brave is at the center of the issue. Hence why added my issue to Brave to review.

[289wk]

@beffective

Get a mouse pad, 0.25 inch thick. Cut 1 inch squares ← 4 of them.

Place a square under each corner of the laptop computer, in order to let more air pass underneath the computer.

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Memory leak with no extensions:

Memory leak with no extensions
Memory leak with no extensions - #2 by 289wk

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Using the Top command as a task manager for Linux OS users:

https://linuxhandbook.com/top-command/

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Brave Browser Task Manager:

Click on the “hamburger” menu button (3 small horizontal lines) at the upper-right corner of the Brave Browser webpage. Choose More Tools. And then, click Task Manager.

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You can compare the same process of both task managers, by noting the Process ID (“PID”) numbers.

Arrange the windows for the task managers, so you can take 1 screenshot that encompasses both task managers.

Take screenshots and name the screenshot file chronologically, so you can track memory usage.

You would be looking for an increase of memory usage, over a period of time.

Also, you would be looking for a process that is hogging the CPU.

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Example screenshots:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9896

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Source for those last 2 images:

BRAVE Memory usage is SO HUGE, how can we improve this?

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BLeak - Automatically debug memory leaks:

http://plasma-umass.org/BLeak/

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Websites can also issue scripts that are the cause of memory leaks.

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Using my Mac, command line entry:

• top -F -R -o +command -n 30 -stats command,cpu,rsize,time,state,pid

Results:

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