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Subject: Re: Reading temperature on DELL PE2850?
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Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote:
> I'm contemplating setting "sysctl machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=0" on my 4 core 
> PE2850, but i am concerned that without HLT-ing would increase the 
> temperature levels to dangerous levels.
> Are there any ways for me to read temperatures from FreeBSD/DRAC4 ?
> 

Have you tries using IPMI using the onboard base management controller?

Tom