On Friday 13 July 2001 09:25 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> Thank you very much. I asw in top that kapm-idled uses nearly 50 to
> 60 % of CPU. How to disable it. in gkrellm I don't have anything for
> cpu temp. How to know whether mb supports lm_sensors? I have kobian
> 815e mb.
>
> On July 13, 2001 10:24 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > Situations like this are also a good example of why, if your
> > motherboard supports it, everybody should enable lm_sensors and an
> > appropriate FE for it to display cpu temp. I use Gkrellm. Often the
> > first warning you'll get that a process or app has gone wild is a
> > rise to the max in cpu temp. 'Course weaker systems will just
> > freeze or randomly reboot if a wild process is left unattended to.
> > If monitoring isn't feasible, the next best thing is to run 'top'
> > with the <Shift+P> option to display which proccesses are using the
> > most % of cpu.
Sorry, I should have excepted 'kapm-idled'. Mea culpa. That is just
what it says, idled. It doesn't use any real cpu cycles, or so i'm
told ;) It's somethin new, I don't like it much, but for reasons I've
heard and don't yet understand, we're stuck with it. Anyhow, 50 to 60%
would be a heavy load, but nothin like the 90+% you'd see from a wild
process.
For lm_sensors, the Mandrake kernels have the modules. They're
useless tho until you install the lm_utils rpm
(lm_utils-2.4.3_2.5.5-20mdk for 8.0, it's on your Cd's. Caution, I've
seen reports from Civileme that lm_utils can toast some laptop
motherboards).
Then from a CL run 'sensors-detect'. This is a text based config
tool that asks some simple questions (default answers usually suffice),
then loads the appropriate modules, and displays some lines that you'll
need to manually edit (as root) into modules.conf and rc.local so the
modules will be loaded on your next boot. It'll also let you know if
your motherboard doesn't have an i2c monitoring chip (many ready mades,
eg. Dell, and other low end motherboards don't). This done sucessfully,
then if you type 'sensors' you should see an output of your system
voltages, fan speeds, and temps. If you do, then you can configure
Gkrellm to display any of the sensors outputs.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
