high temp?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 April 2005 07:36, Robbie Foust wrote:
>My laptop also has 1gb of ram, but I would be surprised if that has
>anything to do with how much heat is generated.  The heat on my
> machine is coming from the processor.
>
>Is there a way to get real-time temp readings in linux?  It would be
>interesting to monitor the temp readings while doing processor
> intensive things.
>
>- Robbie
>
Sure, if you can make it work with your hardware, and occasionally it 
works here when the cli program "sensors" doesn't, is "gkrellm", 
which sits on your screen near an edge and reports that, and a lot 
more stuff if you configure it to do so, all in real time.  My cpu is 
currently running at 131.2F for example.  Actually in runs pretty 
steady at that because both einstein and seti are running here, 
essentially keeping my cpu at 100%, but they are niced at 19, so I 
don't feel them in my useage at all.

>Robbie Foust
>OIT-CASI
>Duke University
>
>>> Now its only needed to figure out: Is it the driver, or the
>>> hardware? Anyone with same HW and identical config can try and
>>> reproduce?
>>
>> Greetings:
>>
>> A similar thing has happened to me on several occasions.  I have
>> an HP Pavilion, model ze5470 US laptop, with a 2.66 GHz P4.  It
>> happens when processor usage is high for an extended period, like
>> when tarring a large file structure.  I noticed that this occurred
>> after I upgraded the memory to 1 GB.  Perhaps the larger memory
>> cards generate more heat.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gary

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