On Sun, 01 June 2008 Grant Coady <grant_lkml at dodo.com.au> wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2008 22:03:39 +0200, Bruno Pr?mont > <bonbons at linux-vserver.org> wrote: > > >On a Commell LE-365 I get readings for fan speed that are broken > >about 10% of the time. > >The board has a Winbond W83697 chip (I can't check the exact chip > >name on the board as it's hidden by a heatsink, the photo from > >Commell, as as well as the manual indicate a HG, the kenrel reports: > > [ 3.572831] w83627hf: Found W83697HF chip at 0x290 > > [ 3.572831] WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF/THF/HG > > Super I/O chip initialising. [ 3.572831] w83627hf/thf/hg WDT: > > Watchdog already running. Resetting timeout to 60 sec > > [ 3.572831] w83627hf/thf/hg WDT: initialized. timeout=60 sec > > (nowayout=0) > >) > > > >Below a sample (reformatted) output of > > while sleep 1; do > > date; > > cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/fan1_input; > > done > > Try slowing down your polling, change to sleep 5. See if the problem > goes away. > > Grant. > Unfortunately polling less often does not help. The monitoring software which made me see this issue is polling once every 10 seconds, I don't see the -1s there, but the too large values do show up. Bruno
