detecting overheating processors?

[Brian F. Feldman]

Burkard Meyendriesch <bm at malepartus.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:07:47 +1030 Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:03, Burkard Meyendriesch wrote:
> > > On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:03:18 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > > Rather than putting any "burn-in-test" functionality into any one
> > > > program, be it sysinstall or otherwise, I would prefer to have a
> > > > program called "stress" which could be run at any time to test
> > > > hardware.
> > >
> > > By the way: how can I get the actual temperature of my amd64 CPU?
> > > I did not find anything in sysctl(8) . . .
> > 
> > Try /usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon.
> > 
> Thanks, xmbmon does the job.
> Btw "make buildworld" pushes my CPU temperature to 67 degrees C.

That temperature on my Athlons is the limit of stability (at 67, it's not).
After getting a proper case and cleaning out the heatsinks on the CPUs of 
dust, temperature dropped to a manageable maximum of around 65.

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