Monitoring CPU temp in Linux

[Belisarius]

Hi,

Are there any other tools than gkrellm and lm_sensors for monitoring CPU temp (dual core) under linux?

I've been getting weird readings (see my Ok temps for 4200 thread) with quite a disparity between cores e.g 20C on one 40C on other when idle. I've tried my new Arctic Freezer 64 and the original HSF and get the same results (although the latter was 5C hotter.

If I'm just using the single value cpu temp from lm_sensors it shows 27C at idle (individual cores at 20 and 39) and with both cores at 100% it seems to peak at c.55C. At the same time the individual core temps are showing at 60+ each.

I'm really looking at ways to pin this down to a sensor problem, software problem, mobo issue or cpu fault?

So any help from Linux users out there would be grateful

Cheers

Andy

 

[Evil-I]

Only aware of LMsensors for Linux, theres probably other gui interfaces to that other than GKrellm but that probably doesn't really help much.

Silly question, is the temp disparity between cores because one of the cores is being powered down when its idle? Isn't that a core2 powersave feature?

E-I

 

[RaiderX]

you could try running a windows one under wine