Checking CPU temperature

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Jun 11 16:24:34 UTC 2008


Mark Haney wrote:


>>>> Is there some other program to check the CPU temperature?
>>>>
>>> cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
>>>
>>> This is what I use to check temps if I feel like my sensors widget is
>>> not right.
>> 
>> Thanks, Mark, but
>> 
>> $ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
>> cat: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature: No such file or directory
>> $

> Hmm.  You don't have ACPI on your system at all?  YOu might want to poke
> around /proc, that metric may be located in a slightly different
> location than mine, but on all my systems (laptops, desktop, Fedora or
> Gentoo) it's in that location.

Are you sure you didn't make a typo?
I have /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature .
I guess if I had two CPUs I might
have /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM1/temperature as well.






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