From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 5 11:07:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5522E106567B for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:07:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com (mail-ew0-f206.google.com [209.85.219.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35008FC0A for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:07:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so5735ewy.43 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:07:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fkh+MFHzRr41HJdlLCKyexz+2Bz/pN7nb/90w+YFl9o=; b=OBt9ilwch5Pr8RxEku211ZXdFj2EXUAndeyOanWMDrZerqox1cQKLuRj2B2AZrDasC 3Qb5qTLG5eBwizV8aNfhtNuLHcYjE9+mj6HsBsvYswvttvebTZ8l+hzBLEnyRuvWHAYn kl0BKNHyI9RtUY30yMqBCi7fDNuGhrtRSSrjE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FbWSoAk2QJwgipMrUILiJBFQD6olM4s9JFHtLC3s9mpdoYBWLrmKivvfYPFD3gJ4nr 1vH6rir04X6c/XKYuFqexsfDgO5MceLFX5no+JD4kCjarESIfwyedEpMzSy5tKJUB5y2 vpVtTDK2j0E2qBJTF8L4o95uYL5KrwhrEja2M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.82.13 with SMTP id f13mr10333914ebb.95.1249470425910; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:07:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <543316.4925.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <543316.4925.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:07:05 -0600 Message-ID: <64c038660908050407s1053d0edw135e5689ee43cf87@mail.gmail.com> From: Modulok To: Unga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find real CPU temperature? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:07:08 -0000 On 8/5/09, Unga wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 on Intel P4 computer. > > The "lmmon -i" shows 21C and when go to BIOS shows 65C! BIOS reading seems > to be correct as the CPU heat pipe is very hot to the extent cannot touch. > > How do I read the real BIOS temperature readings when FreeBSD is running to > check whether the computer is over heating? If your mainboard supports it, and depending on your CPU, you might look into sysutils/mbmon, found in the ports collection. Aside from that, what does the following command output? sysctl -a | grep temp -Modulok-