Contributed by jose on from the new-monitors dept.
hw.sensors.0:high=80C hw.sensors.1:high=170F hw.sensors.2:low=4.8V:high=5.2V hw.sensors.3:low=1000:high=8000This can be useful to monitor a machine's health, especially from keeping it from overheating. Remember that this is brand new code and still being developed, so you will probably find some bugs, and it's still being fleshed out. But, for the most part it works now.
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By Anonymous Coward () on
Anyway, what hardware does this package support? Does it auto-detect hardware?
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By Michael () on
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By Anonymous Coward () on
looks like:
Sep 30 00:50:58 data sensorsd: startup, monitoring 13 sensors
but thats all of output 8/
some informations about the sensors would be great
greetings
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By Frank Denis () j@pureftpd.org on http://www.skymobile.com/
By Henning Brauer () henning@ on mailto:henning@
e. g. everything you see when you type
sysctl hw.sensors
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By Michael van der Westhuizen () on
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Being able to detect when a fan has died, or a processor is overheating is a serious issue, that there really isn't any other solution to. I'm quite surprised it's been as long as it has (since mobo sensors became common) before this was introduced.
I guess it's upgrade time...
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By zil0g () on
IMO it's just a neat gadget.
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By Anonymous Coward () on
I remember seeing a video of a cooler being taken off an Athlon during operation, followed by a whole lot of smoke. Then the same experiment with a P4, followed by and automatic shutdown, no smoke.
But don't try this at home ;)
By RC () on
Why in the hell would that be? You have your temperature set to 200F/90C degrees?
Me thinks you don't know what you are talking about.
By Henning Brauer () henning@ on mailto:henning@
> athlon) will most likely burn before your
> sensors pop-up dialog pops up anyway.
that is not true.
I had CPU fans dieing in 4 1U units. they all were running Durons and Athlons.
They ran at 90..110 degC for 6 months.
All are still alive.
one failed case fan, for example, doesn't mean your system goes down, but you want to know that so you can schedule a swap.
or PS volatges going out of rangem that can be an indicator for a dieing PS, without causing immediate trouble.