any thoughts on why cooling fan keeps spinning up and down?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  this is another problem i started having with the test version, and
it's still happening now -- on my gateway laptop running fully-updated
f11, the cooling fan keeps spinning up and down with about a 3-second
period.  it's really kind of annoying.  occasionally, it will stop
completely for a bit, then it starts oscillating all over again.
thoughts?

rday
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