[Discuss] Thermal monitoring

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 10/21/2011 10:47 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 10:39 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> I have a system that has been having heat problems. (Apparently when
>> it was
>> in my boss' home, he replaced the existing cooling fans with whimpy
>> ones,
>> but he kept the original fans so yesterday we did replace them, but I
>> would
>> like to be able to monitor the temps.
>> CPU2: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
>>
>> But, I don't have any ACPI support: /proc/acip/thermal_zone is empty.
>> I'm looking for a quick and dirty way to check to see if the unit
>> temps are No sensors found!
>> Make sure you loaded all the kernel drivers you need.
>> Try sensors-detect to find out which these are.
>>
>> ok since this system is our Oracle server.
>>
>> Currently the system only has the 4 original cooling fans, but not the
>> exhaust fans. I have some email to Supermicro on this if we need to
>> get the
>> exhaust fans.
>>
>> But, I'd like a way that I can look for issues not only on this
>> server but
>> my other devices. I actually noticed the heat issue the other day
>> when the
>> CPU throttled down because I had a terminal open on that system.
>
> I usually use lm_sensors to monitor for heat:
>
> [darose at daroselin ~]$ sensors
> acpitz-virtual-0
> Adapter: Virtual device
> temp1:        +62.0?C  (crit = +97.0?C)
>
>
Unfortunately:
No sensors found!
Make sure you loaded all the kernel drivers you need.
Try sensors-detect to find out which these are.
I did run sensors-detect as root, and it installed lm_sensors in
/etc/sysconfig.

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