On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 04:06:39PM +0200, Philipp Kraus wrote: > On 2012-06-30 15:41:06 +0200, Guenter Roeck said: > > >On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 07:52:06AM +0200, Philipp Kraus wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I'm using on a dual xeon system lmsensors and pwmconfig for listing > >>and controlling the fan speed. > >>Lmsensors is configurated and checks the temperature of the CPUs, > >>but the fans rotate every time with > >>full speed: > >> > >>CPU1 Fan: 5555 RPM (min = 2000 RPM) > >>CPU2 Fan: 5895 RPM (min = 2000 RPM) > >> > >>CPU 1 Temp: +50.0 C (high = +75.0 C, hyst = +60.0 C) sensor = Intel PECI > >>CPU 2 Temp: +53.0 C (high = +75.0 C, hyst = +60.0 C) sensor = Intel PECI > >> > >>On booting up the fans have got around 2000 RPMs but some minuts the > >>system speeds up on idle status > >>Can you help me please to configure the options correctly, that the > >>RPMs are only gown up if needed? > >> > >Hi Phil, > > > >imagine you are an expert in the area. Then imagine someone sends you this > >e-mail. Do you think you would be able to help based on the information in the > >e-mail ? > > > >Or, in other words, please provide sufficient information for > >people to actually > >be able to help. Kernel version, lm-sensors version, complete sensors command > >output, and all relevant configuration (including pwm configuration) would be > >a start. > > > Sorry my mistake, I have forgot to past the full data (it was a > little bit early on this morning and I was tired): > > kernel version 3.2.11 > lm sensors 3.3.1 > Gentoo Linux 64 Bit > > pmwconfig found this devices > hwmon0/device is i5k_amb > hwmon1/device is w83793 > > which are also used on lm sensors. The sensors config has stored > only the min/max values (the min values on the CPUs are set to 2000 > RPM), > labels and some ignore values > > Only the two kernel modules are build > CONFIG_SENSORS_I5K_AMB=m > CONFIG_SENSORS_W83793=m > all other are disabled > > I hope this additional kernel modules are helpful: > CONFIG_THERMAL=m > CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=y > CONFIG_X86_THERMAL_VECTOR=y > CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m > > I don't know which option can be modifies to change this settings > and where I can start my search to find the problem. If I boot up > the system the CPU > fans do some "pulse", so the speed rises up and slows down, rise up, ....... > If I run only once sensors the pulse is gone away, but the RPM increses > Do you have "fancontrol" running ? If yes, pelase provide the configuration file. Also, please provide output of "grep . /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/*" and the output of the "sensors" command. Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
