high temp?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

You can also quite often cat a file under /proc/acpi/processor/?!? to
get temp.

man, 11.04.2005 kl. 19.25 skrev Gene Heskett:
> On Monday 11 April 2005 07:36, Robbie Foust wrote:
> >My laptop also has 1gb of ram, but I would be surprised if that has
> >anything to do with how much heat is generated.  The heat on my
> > machine is coming from the processor.
> >
> >Is there a way to get real-time temp readings in linux?  It would be
> >interesting to monitor the temp readings while doing processor
> > intensive things.
> >
> >- Robbie
> >
> Sure, if you can make it work with your hardware, and occasionally it 
> works here when the cli program "sensors" doesn't, is "gkrellm", 
> which sits on your screen near an edge and reports that, and a lot 
> more stuff if you configure it to do so, all in real time.  My cpu is 
> currently running at 131.2F for example.  Actually in runs pretty 
> steady at that because both einstein and seti are running here, 
> essentially keeping my cpu at 100%, but they are niced at 19, so I 
> don't feel them in my useage at all.
> 
> >Robbie Foust
> >OIT-CASI
> >Duke University
> >
> >>> Now its only needed to figure out: Is it the driver, or the
> >>> hardware? Anyone with same HW and identical config can try and
> >>> reproduce?
> >>
> >> Greetings:
> >>
> >> A similar thing has happened to me on several occasions.  I have
> >> an HP Pavilion, model ze5470 US laptop, with a 2.66 GHz P4.  It
> >> happens when processor usage is high for an extended period, like
> >> when tarring a large file structure.  I noticed that this occurred
> >> after I upgraded the memory to 1 GB.  Perhaps the larger memory
> >> cards generate more heat.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Gary
> 
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