Rats! Now, you made me go and look up "conky"...that means I will try to install it. 
Here is a picture of my current CPU usage. Not high at all but, something is triggering that AUX fan on a CPU Fan connector to ramp up. I have the AUX fan back onto a regular fan connector and the box is quiet once again.
Disks show the IBM 80gig internal SSD at 97 degrees Fahrenheit. Using a Fluke 62 MAX + IR Thermometer scanning the box shows:
Two NVM SSD with heat sinks at 106 F.
Motherboard generally at 98 F.
CPU aluminum cooler at 99 F.
PSU at 97 F.
I am good with that and can live with it for a very long time. This board and the chipset are fairly new so little unknowns like this are bound to pop up.
I strive to keep my temps under 50 degrees C.
What is the terminal output of
ps aux | sort -rk 4,4 | head -n 10
You may need to full screen the terminal and take a screenshot...
If everything above looks normal, you might try resetting the sensors:
sudo apt install --reinstall lm-sensors xsensors fancontrol
Once complete, run
sudo sensors-detect
For each prompt, answer yes
For something quick and easy, you can install xsensors
sudo apt install xsensors
Then launch it
xsensors
Well, Vivaldi is pretty much a CPU process pig.
There is more info after the last line but it all related to Vivaldi. I know that Vivaldi consumes quite a bit on my Win 7 box as well. It looks "normal" to me but I do wonder why Gnome takes up 20 percent.
lou@lou-zorin:~$ ps aux | sort -rk 4,4 | head -n 10
ps aux | sort -rk 4,4 | head -n 10
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
lou 1726 20.0 2.7 1102432 448820 ? Sl 08:38 0:16 /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service
lou 3168 8.1 1.6 34148092 274320 ? SLl 08:38 0:05 /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --new-window --enable-crashpad
lou 1274 4.2 1.5 4327428 246840 ? Ssl 08:38 0:03 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
lou 3397 10.0 1.3 1184445044 215804 ? Sl 08:38 0:06 /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=rend.....
I did the sensor scan, a few were found. This was the final result...
To load everything that is needed, add this to /etc/modules:
#----cut here----
coretemp
nct6775
#----cut here----
If you have some drivers built into your kernel, the list above will
contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones!
Do you want to add these lines automatically to /etc/modules? (yes/NO)yes
Successful!
Monitoring programs won't work until the needed modules are
loaded. You may want to run '/etc/init.d/kmod start'
to load them.
Unloading cpuid... OK
lou@lou-zorin:~$
After I have another cup of tea and steel my nerves, I will run the script, once I figure out how to do that.
Yes... it is.
Vivaldi won me over with its user control customization... But I ended up nuking it off of every computer due to its memory leaks and CPU hogging.
Same here...really like Vivaldi but good heavens, it is expensive process wise. What browser(s) are you using?
I was using Waterfox but they went to the dark side when they sold out. Firefox has simply failed me on various levels; if I really wanted a pure Chrome look and feel then I would use Chrome from Google.
I used Pale Moon for quite some time, liked it, but don't recall why I left it. Probably due to not being able to use some extensions I needed/wanted.
I use ungoogled Chromium.
This is not due to it being great or fitting all my needs.
If it wasn't for the Process Hogging, to the point it actually damaged one of my computers... Vivaldi would have won out. In spite of it containing some proprietary code.
It is due to a lack of real options.
I also used to use Waterfox until it was sold to a Market Advertising company. Audacity also suffered the same fate.
Firefox also has changed to the point that I find untenable.
We have had many threads on the forum cover the lack of options in a sea of browsers.
There is much passion in supporting Braver Browser or Gnome-Browser or Falkon...
But for me... Browsers are a lost cause.
So, I just settled on one that I could work with and tolerate.
OK...well, I have tried to start this as a service and somewhere I do not understand what I am doing. No surprise there!
lou@lou-zorin:~$ sudo systemctl start /etc/init.d/kmod
Failed to start etc-init.d-kmod.mount: Unit etc-init.d-kmod.mount not found.
lou@lou-zorin:~$ systemctl is-active /etc/init.d/kmod
inactive
lou@lou-zorin:~$ systemctl is-active /etc/init.d/kmod start
inactive
inactive
Still being lost I did this out of curiosity...
lou@lou-zorin:~$ sudo systemctl list-units
Which returned 174 loaded modules of which this was the only one that had a kmod in it.
kmod-static-nodes.service loaded active exited
But does show this:
upower.service loaded active running
Of course, I am still lost but am having fun.
What about changing directory to the source and then running it:
cd /etc/init.d
sudo ./kmod start
Yep ... that worked. Never occurred to me to dive into the directory.
lou@lou-zorin:~$ cd /etc/init.d
lou@lou-zorin:/etc/init.d$ sudo ./kmod start
[sudo] password for lou:
Starting kmod (via systemctl): kmod.service.
lou@lou-zorin:/etc/init.d$
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