Hardware monitor needed

[Laszlo Nagy]

> Check out healthd or mbmon.  One or other has worked OK for me on 
> other Asus boards, and both are in ports (sysutils/ I think).
>
> If you have ACPI and your board supports thermal zones, then you can 
> check those.
>    sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*therm'
> or
>    sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*tz'
>
> one or other should be a good enough incantation.  None of my ASUS 
> mobos do have thermal zones so I can't be sure -- it's much more 
> commonly supported in laptops.
>
> Or just
>
>    sysctl -a | egrep acpi
I do not have anything that looks like temperature. Is it still possible 
to use healthd or mbmon?

By the way,  I'm 100% sure that the problem is with the CPU load. Here 
is the output of top:


  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 2266 monica        1 110    0 16268K 11088K RUN    1  17:22 22.85% 
gnome-volume-manage
 1258 edit          1 110    0 16268K 11000K RUN    1  19:08 22.75% 
gnome-volume-manage
 1658 mariann       1 109    0 16320K 11260K RUN    1  18:30 22.56% 
gnome-volume-manage
 1528 mtamas        1 109    0 16268K 11068K RUN    1  18:49 22.41% 
gnome-volume-manage
 1244 timea         1 110    0 16268K 11000K CPU1   1  19:07 22.36% 
gnome-volume-manage
 1251 monica        1 110    0 16268K 11000K RUN    1  18:44 22.07% 
gnome-volume-manage
 1268 zoltan        1 109    0 16268K 11000K RUN    1  18:52 21.78% 
gnome-volume-manage


This server is an X terminal server and the users connect to it with 'X 
-query <ip>'. Can I do something to reduce the load on the CPU? 
"gnome-volume-manage" uses 99% of the CPU, constantly -  why?
> --Alex
>
> PS Many disks which support SMART can display their apparent temp as 
> one of the SMART parameters (see sysutils/smartmontools).  Not 100% 
> trustworthy, but better than nowt.  I'd rather fry the processor than 
> a disk :-)
I'm not affraid of that. I have gmirror-ed disks and they are much 
cheaper than the processor ( E6320 ).

Thank you!

  Laszlo