From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 20:38:14 2008 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 631B8106567D for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:38:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from mx.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb7:b8fe]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44CD8FC14 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:38:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by mx.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m77KbrDf013791; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:37:53 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:37:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <32214.1218139739@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <32214.1218139739@tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808072237.52918.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: Re: Questions about healthd and mprime 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: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:38:14 -0000 On Thursday 07 August 2008, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Problem is: documentation of healthd's output is almost non-existant. > OK, so when it prints those three temperature numbers, which one stands > for what? And if, as I surmize, the last (and highest) one is CPU > temp, then why doesn't it seem to change at all? I'm guessing that > I just need to create some artificial load, yes? Try sysutils/k8temp. When run with -n, it only prints the CPU's temperature. Together with rrdtool it makes a nice graph: http://lux.student.utwente.nl/~pyotr/stats/graphs/temperature-all-168.png For Intel Core CPU's there's coretemp(4). > > OK, so _now_ I've looked around and found out that a lot of folks > these days heat up their CPUs by running the "mprime" thingy. Swell. > But I don't know diddly poo about this program. So can somebody please > tell me the set of "best" command line options for the thing if your > only goal is to stress your CPU? I don't know about mprime, but running "make -j4 buildworld" in /usr/src will make your CPU sweat. > > Thanks in advance. > > > Regards, > rfg -- Pieter de Goeje