Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:43:04 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org> To: Burkard Meyendriesch <bm@malepartus.de> Cc: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk Subject: Re: detecting overheating processors? Message-ID: <200403041443.i24Eh4s6014204@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Burkard Meyendriesch <bm@malepartus.de> <20040304132557.24a75df7.bm@malepartus.de>
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Burkard Meyendriesch <bm@malepartus.de> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:07:47 +1030 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:03, Burkard Meyendriesch wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:03:18 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > Rather than putting any "burn-in-test" functionality into any one > > > > program, be it sysinstall or otherwise, I would prefer to have a > > > > program called "stress" which could be run at any time to test > > > > hardware. > > > > > > By the way: how can I get the actual temperature of my amd64 CPU? > > > I did not find anything in sysctl(8) . . . > > > > Try /usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon. > > > Thanks, xmbmon does the job. > Btw "make buildworld" pushes my CPU temperature to 67 degrees C. That temperature on my Athlons is the limit of stability (at 67, it's not). After getting a proper case and cleaning out the heatsinks on the CPUs of dust, temperature dropped to a manageable maximum of around 65. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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