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 > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly > Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above > message by Gene Heskett are: > Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.