From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 4:52:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C8537B548 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 04:52:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12tTXr-000EWN-00; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:05:19 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12tTXr-000CaJ-00; Sun, 21 May 2000 12:05:19 +0100 Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:05:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: johan.dahlberg@home.se Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Temperatures Message-ID: <20000521120519.E15686@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200005210954.LAA20120@smtp2.home.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200005210954.LAA20120@smtp2.home.se> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG johan.dahlberg@home.se wrote: > Do I have to activate the HLT instruction on FreeBSD or something? The > system I tested temperatures on was an Abit BP6 with dual celeron > 500MHz cpu's. I tested the temperatures with a regular thermometer > since I've never really trusted those built in sensors. ;) AIUI FreeBSD's SMP code always runs both CPUs at full speed, all the time, so a fairer comparison would be on a uni-processor machine. Perhaps the kernel another poster suggested would help; I've never used SMP so I wouldn't know. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message