Is it normal to use sensors and gkrellm on a regular basis?
I can use gkrellm right now but it's only giving me ambient temperature and for the first few days of running my new P4 with the Zalman fan, I'd like to keep track of the CPU temperature. It appears that in order to do that I'll have to update Sensors from YOU and modprobe a few modules. Does that play any havoc with the operation of the system or is that fine? Preston
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I can use gkrellm right now but it's only giving me ambient temperature and for the first few days of running my new P4 with the Zalman fan, I'd like to keep track of the CPU temperature. It appears that in order to do that I'll have to update Sensors from YOU and modprobe a few modules. Does that play any havoc with the operation of the system or is that fine?
The only caveat I am aware of is on IBM Thinkpad laptops, running sensors trashes the system (NVRAM or BIOS IIRC, but it is very late). I run gkrellm all the time on my desktop machine and on my Thinkpad laptop (using ACPI temperature). Gkrellm uses 6% CPU at idle (600MHz clock of 1600MHz max, C2 state, no throttling). The load is worthwhile for me, YMMV. Jeffrey
On Monday 20 Sep 2004 06:02, Preston Crawford wrote:
I can use gkrellm right now but it's only giving me ambient temperature and for the first few days of running my new P4 with the Zalman fan, I'd like to keep track of the CPU temperature. It appears that in order to do that I'll have to update Sensors from YOU and modprobe a few modules. Does that play any havoc with the operation of the system or is that fine?
Preston
If cpu usage is a problem use ksysguard instead .. 11460 root 15 0 29876 6276 24m S ( CPU % 2.7) 1.2 28:28.70 ksysguard pete -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan PGN
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I'd like to keep track of the CPU temperature. It appears that in order to do that I'll have to update Sensors from YOU and modprobe a few modules. Does that play any havoc with the operation of the system or is that fine?
I've always had sensors enabled, for the curiosity value as much as anything, and have never had a problem. John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards
On Monday 20 September 2004 07:02, Preston Crawford wrote:
I can use gkrellm right now but it's only giving me ambient temperature and for the first few days of running my new P4 with the Zalman fan, I'd like to keep track of the CPU temperature. It appears that in order to do that I'll have to update Sensors from YOU and modprobe a few modules. Does that play any havoc with the operation of the system or is that fine?
I've been running both for over a year. it sits on my desktop, and I can monitor CPU usage, and temp, and fan speed. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.1 Kernel 2.6.4 KDE 3.2.1 Kmail 1.6.2 For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 6:36pm up 2 days 9:19, 4 users, load average: 2.72, 1.91, 1.46
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