Howto lm-sensors

Posted by wjl on Jul 28, 2006 2:05 PM EDT
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Once, our webhosting provider sent a mail about a failed CPU fan in the machine which runs our domain, announing that it would be down for something like half an hour or so to repair it. I was impressed. Since I know that this machine is running an older AMD K7, and how hot they can get, I thought: “Wow - he discovered this before the poor CPU went to meet it’s $DEITY?”

Here you see the temperatures of two different hard disks, the CPU fan speed, and the CPU temperature. The package ksensors would show something similar for KDE, xsensors or gkrellm or other packages show these on any desktop.

Which means: we’re done. What could have been easier?

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