you want hyst (hysteresis) to be high, like 68. The alarm isn't cleared until the temperature goes below the hysteresis value. Eric J. Bowersox wrote: > (Sorry about the blank message, let's try it again...) > > Greetings to all. > > We've got some compute nodes here that are using Supermicro X6DHR > motherboards (for the Intel Nocona processors), which use the Winbond > W83792D hardware monitor chip. Since the OS installed on these is SuSE > Linux Enterprise Server 9 (kernel 2.6.5), I had to upgrade lm_sensors to > 2.9.1 and apply a kernel patch (the one recently posted to this list) to > get the right chip driver into the system. I'm able to get temperature, > fan, and voltage readings out of the chip, so it's all good there. > > However, another strange issue has cropped up: during the system boot > process, as soon as the "sensors" service loads, the "overtemperature" > LED on the front panel begins flashing. I've tried mucking around with > the "set tempN_over" and "set tempN_hyst" lines in sensors.conf, but to > no avail; the last settings I tried were 70 for over and 30 for hyst, > and the light still blinks. Naturally, if we ship the nodes like this, > the customer might get worried, seeing all those blinking red lights. > > So, anybody have any ideas, short of taking a pair of diagonal cutters > to the leads for the temperature light? Is that light somehow connected > to one of the outputs of the W83792D, and if so, is there some kind of > "magic poke" I can make to the chip registers to get it to quit > flashing? (Maybe this is a driver issue?) Or have I just not been > aggressive enough in how I changed the temperature bounds in > sensors.conf? > > Thanks in advance. >
