Use the GNU krellm monitors to watch and monitor system health parameters. Very good for server environments where performance monitoring is part of the server administrator's job.
Tag: overheat
Handbrake and VLC overheats laptop – Core 2 Duo
Handbrake / VLC overheats the CPU. To overcome this problem, make the program use 1 thread. In VLC, there is option in the GUI to do so. In Handbrake, you need to add thread=1 to the manual options.