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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:20:17 -0400
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Measuring P4 CPU temperature in FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <20040414172017.GC63614@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <Law10-F21zGkzMcvsq90003ad31@hotmail.com>
References:  <Law10-F21zGkzMcvsq90003ad31@hotmail.com>

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:12:31PM +1000, Andrew Nelson wrote:
> >> I have a few 1RU chassis that i'm worried are overheating..  is there
> >> anyway to get FreeBSD to report the CPU temperature  - i've seen
> >> windows do it somewhere...
> >
> >You can use programs like mbmon (ports/sysutils/xmbmon) to do that
> >
> >Timestamp: 0x407CF835
> >[SorAlx]  http://cydem.org.ua/
> >ridin' VN1500-B2
> Thanks  - that looks great...  it doesn't seem to work on my hardware
> though unfortunately  (Supermicro MB).

He said "like".  There are numerous other's out there.  One of them is
healthd.  Some of the monitoring programs require you recompile your
kernel with SMBus support.  FreeBSD 5 has the acpi methods and you can
use "sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz#.temperature".

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org



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