Hi Jean, > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:40:38 -0400, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> Thanks again for the prompt response. One more question regarding >> coretemp: any idea how I can probe the sensor in my own source code? >> I'm hoping to be able to probe a few times a second, while the >> lm-sensors usage guide says max. probing frequency should be at most >> 0.3-0.5 Hz. > > Out of curiosity, which "usage guide" are you referring to? > 'Usage guide' was probably misleading, I meant the FAQ: http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter1 [snip] > There's no reason why overclocking would help. Overclocking will > generate more heat, but the time it takes to generate it won't change. > Since the maximum temperature was higher, I was hoping to see some intermediate reading between idle and fully-loaded temperatures. [snip] > Arun, back to your immediate issue, you have two options, either > rebuild the coretemp driver with a shorter cache lifetime (replace HZ > with HZ/10 in function coretemp_update_device) or access the MSR > yourself from user-space (but then you lose all the power of > libsensors.) > Thanks for the suggestion, I will try it. Is it known how frequently the sensors actually update the readings? thanks, -arun _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
