i8000fan for freebsd and Sony PCG-z1wa

[Eric Anderson]

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Recently, I've had to diagnose problems with my dell i8200 which sadly
> runs windows.  It was running slower than the dickens.  Turns out it
> was heat related and the bios was stepping the speed down and never
> back up.  I've not been able to fix the overheading problem (would
> love to know how, btw).
>
> In the process of all of this, I found a damn useful program that
> monitored the temperature, fan speed CPU load and CPU speed, producing
> a nice graph over time.
>
> I was wondering if something similar existed for FreeBSD.  I'd like a
> nice little program that I can use to graph the temperature, CPU speed
> and cpu load, with and without powerd running.  Can anybody help me out?
>   

Are you looking for a long term statistical tool, or a real-time 
graphical view?  I was thinking perl+rrdtool for a long term background 
tool that would create png's would be pretty easy to whip up..


Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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