CPU locks up and temperature increases

im runing those same programs right now and if i dont touch anything the cpu gets down to 9%, also i dont know if this will help but i have intel centrino vpro 2 dual core that gets 2.24 ghz and i have 3 gigs of ram and an nvidia Quadro NVS 150M but my laptop was bought of ebay used and i have had it for about 2 or 3 years and it previously had windows vista buisness 32 bit.

the current temp ratings

temp 1 50 C
core 0 36 C
core 1 40 C
/dev/sda 33 C
GPU0 55 C
cpu usage 9% (13% when typing)

also sorry for the constant updates but i forgot to mention i already have a laptop cooling fan, it is conected to a four port usb hub

again sorry for the constant upload of more info, i also must say that right now i have my nvidia proprietary driver set to adaptive performance mode and i installed jupiter and set that to power saver. to avoid overheating

what is the make and model of the system????

the laptop= Toshiba tecra m10
cpu= intel centrino vpro 2 dual core
gpu= nvidia Quadro NVS 150M
ram= 3 gigs / 2 chips = 1.5 gig chips
as for other info
ubuntu version 12.10 quantal quetzal 32 bit
6 gigs swap space though for some reason it wont auto mount on boot up and it still says i have 1.5 gigs swap
bios= toshiba (of course)

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

6Gb swap is a bit excessive. You only need about 3.3Gb but you'll probably have enough space to not care

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G86M [Quadro NVS 150M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:fa000000-fbffffff ioport:cf00(size=128) memory:fc000000-fc01ffff

yeah i havent noticed the swap partition ever being used so i just set swappiness to 1 just incase it does need to be used one day

Good call. What is the output of:

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

Thanks

rc libkwinnvidiahack4 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1 i386 library used by nvidia cards for the KDE window manager
rc nvidia-173 173.14.35-0ubuntu0.2 i386 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-cg-dev:i386 3.1.0013-1 i386 Cg Toolkit - GPU Shader Authoring Language (headers)
ii nvidia-cg-toolkit 3.1.0013-1 i386 Cg Toolkit - GPU Shader Authoring Language
ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.71.1 i386 transitional package for ubuntu-drivers-common
ii nvidia-current 304.51.really.304.43-0ubuntu1 i386 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 304.51-0ubuntu2 i386 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

ok let's clean this up:

sudo dpkg -P libkwinnvidiahack4 nvidia-173

Do you use the Cg toolkits you have installed?

no i dont program anything that would require it so no. also is enabling fxaa in the antialiasing settings going to speed things up?

the closest thing i do to programing is 3d modeling using blender

my cpu hasnt locked yet thanks.

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.