From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SXL9A-0006kZ-Nk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 23:39:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99C8BE0950; Wed, 23 May 2012 23:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475E2E079C for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 23:37:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F081B4033 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 23:37:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.139 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.139 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.129, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gsVXsXyarfmI for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 23:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7001264928 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 23:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SXL7J-0005qM-8y for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 24 May 2012 01:37:21 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-185-55.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.185.55]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 01:37:21 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-185-55.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 01:37:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring? Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:37:01 -0700 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-185-55.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 X-Archives-Salt: 635a2e98-f83e-4cd1-b5de-3c621892c2d5 X-Archives-Hash: 3cad633682a1f2cc465ed7aebcbafdae I bought this desktop 4-core machine during the coolest part of the year and until very recently I could barely hear the CPU fan except for about one second during power-up when the fan spins way up and then quickly slows down. Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of the fan noise, but I can't tell if the fan is beginning to fail (the noise sounds a bit harsh to me) or something is merely controlling the speed appropriately. The machines BIOS has no settings whatever concerning the fan or temperature warnings, etc. so I have no idea how to find out the CPU temp. The k10temp kernel module loads automatically at boot with no errors, so I just hope something (somewhere) is taking care of this stuff automatically. But I'm only hoping, not knowing. Any ideas how to find out for sure?