Re: Whats wrong with LM-Sensors

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On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 11:58:39 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Different driver. Centos 6.4 uses the coretemp driver which gets the temperature
> from the CPU directly. Unfortunately, Centos 6.4 is quite old when it comes to
> kernel version, and so is its coretemp driver. The displayed temperatures in your version
> are all wrong; the maximum temperature for Atom 330 is 125 degrees C, not 90 degrees C.
> You'll have to add 35 degrees C to the displayed temperature.
> 
> You could either update the coretemp driver to a later version to fix this,
> or add the offset to /etc/sensors3.conf.
> 
> Note that CPU temperatures are notoriously unreliable.

"Inaccurate in the low temperature range" is a better way to describe
the situation IMHO. The coretemp values are reliably telling the user
when the temperature gets too close to the high limit.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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