Re: [gentoo-user] heat codes

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to monitor this hardware for temperatures, including logging
> of temperatures, on as wide array of temperaturr sensors that is
> possible with kernel 3.18.6-gentoo.)
>
> Gigabyte  GA-990FXA-UD3
> AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (currently clocked at 4 GHz)
> VGA compatible controller Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750 / R7 250E]
>
>
> Any there any others?
> The generic sensor scan stumbled on the radeon card:
> probe the I2C/SMBus adapters:
> Using driver `i2c-piix4' for device 0000:00:14.0: ATI Technologies Inc
> SB600/SB700/SB800 SMBus
> modprobe: FATAL: Module i2c-piix4 not found.
> Failed to load module i2c-piix4.
> Next adapter: Radeon i2c bit bus 0x90 (i2c-0)
> Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes
> {through (i2c-7) all failed.
>
> So lm_sensors only found these modules:
>
> MODULE_0=fam15h_power
> MODULE_1=it87
> MODULE_2=k10temp
>
> Does anyone with similar hardware have a more extensive list?
>
>
> What I'd really like is a very fast (real time?) gui to watch
> these temperatures as certain portions of codes are compile or executed.
> I'm working with a several classes of algorithms, like systolic-algorithms
> that push hardware resources, particularly cpu, gpu and ram, to
> it's limit; therefore the portions of the codes that cause excessive
> thermal stresses on these hardware resources, are of keen interest to me.
>
>
> A local code that puts significant (heat) stress on a system while
> compiling, that anyone can test against is, sci-libs/openfoam
>
> Comment, suggests and web based reading resources are all greatly
> appreciated. I did find this interesting resource
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fan_speed_control
>
>
> TIA,
> James
>

I'm not sure if this is still available or not but doesn't gkrellm do
this sort of thing?  I used it to monitor another rig several years
ago.  May be worth looking into.

Dale

:-)  :-)