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Introductory
During these hot periods, not only us, but also our computers and laptops are affected by the heat. In this case, we need to pay more attention to our machine, whether it is properly cooled, whether there is a lot of dust in it, which hinders the air flow around the hardware, etc. At higher temperatures, the fans turn to a higher speed, which produces even more heat and also increases the amount of dust entering the machine. And the processor takes its power down to try to cool back to its optimum temperature range. In this case, the total power of the machine decreases, and a higher load can even lead to a hardware failure, so it is advisable to look at the temperature data of the devices in the machine from time to time.
In this description we will install lm-sensors program, which first detects the temperature sensors available in your computer and then you can query their current data at any time. We will install the hddtemp which can be used to read the temperature values of the sensors on our hard drives separately. This allows us to monitor our machine data on a regular basis during the hottest periods to ensure optimal use.
Hardware temperature measurement with the lm-sensors program
Installation
Install as root lm-sensors package below apt-get command:
apt-get install lm-sensorsDetection of sensors
Then run the program sensor detection command:
sensors-detectThis will launch a search engine that detects the temperature sensors in your computer. This gives different results for each motherboard. In the meantime, you are asked at each stage whether you want to run the detection of a particular sensor. Answer each question with "yes".
For me, the output looks like this:
# sensors-detect revision 6284 (2015-05-31 14:00:33 +0200) # Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B75M-D3H # Kernel: 4.9.0-7-amd64 x86_64 # Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (6/58/9) This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions, unless you know what you're doing. Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers contain embedded sensors. Do you want to scan for them? This is totally safe. (YES/no): yes Module cpuid loaded successfully. Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595... No VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors... No VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors... No AMD K8 thermal sensors... No AMD Family 10h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 11h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 12h and 14h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 15h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 16h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 15h power sensors... No AMD Family 16h power sensors... No Intel digital thermal sensor... Success! (driver `coretemp') Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor... No Intel 5500/5520/X58 thermal sensor... No VIA C7 thermal sensor... No VIA Nano thermal sensor... No Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe. Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): yes Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... Yes Found `ITE IT8728F Super IO Sensors' Success! (address 0xa30, driver `it87') Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... No Some systems (mainly servers) implement IPMI, a set of common interfaces through which system health data may be retrieved, amongst other things. We first try to get the information from SMBIOS. If we don't find it there, we have to read from arbitrary I/O ports to probe for such interfaces. This is normally safe. Do you want to scan for IPMI interfaces? (YES/no): yes Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... No Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8... No Some hardware monitoring chips are accessible through the ISA I/O ports. We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (yes/NO): yes Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290... No Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290... No Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290... No Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290... No Lastly, we can probe the I2C/SMBus adapters for connected hardware monitoring devices. This is the most risky part, and while it works reasonably well on most systems, it has been reported to cause trouble on some systems. Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): yes Using driver `i2c-i801' for device 0000:00:1f.3: Intel Panther Point (PCH) Module i2c-dev loaded successfully. Next adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at f040 (i2c-0) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Client found at address 0x50 Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... Yes (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip) Probing for `EDID EEPROM'... No Client found at address 0x51 Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... Yes (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip) Client found at address 0x52 Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... Yes (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip) Client found at address 0x53 Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... Yes (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip) Next adapter: i915 gmbus ssc (i2c-1) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Next adapter: i915 gmbus vga (i2c-2) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Next adapter: i915 gmbus panel (i2c-3) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Next adapter: i915 gmbus dpc (i2c-4) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Next adapter: i915 gmbus dpb (i2c-5) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Next adapter: i915 gmbus dpd (i2c-6) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Next adapter: DPDDC-B (i2c-7) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Next adapter: DPDDC-D (i2c-8) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): yes Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: Driver `it87': * ISA bus, address 0xa30 Chip `ITE IT8728F Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9) Driver `coretemp': * Chip `Intel digital thermal sensor' (confidence: 9) To load everything that is needed, add this to /etc/modules: #----cut here---- # Chip drivers coretemp it87 #----cut here---- If you have some drivers built into your kernel, the list above will contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones! Do you want to add these lines automatically to /etc/modules? (yes/NO) yes Successful! Monitoring programs won't work until the needed modules are loaded. You may want to run '/etc/init.d/kmod start' to load them. Unloading i2c-dev... OK Unloading cpuid... OK
So in many places you are asked, everywhere you answer yes. Once again, as many machines as there are so many temperature sensors, the program produces so many outputs. So let's just go through this for comparison.
Then restart the kmod service (also as root):
service kmod start
Read temperature data
Once you have got here, you can read the thermometer data at any time sensor command, which you can run as a regular user:
sensorsFor me, the output at the moment:
it8728-isa-0a30 Adapter: ISA adapter in0: +1.07 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.06 V) in1: +1.98 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.06 V) in2: +2.03 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.06 V) in3: +1.94 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.06 V) in4: +2.22 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.06 V) in5: +0.94 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.06 V) in6: +1.51 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.06 V) 3VSB: +3.36 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.12 V) Vbat: +3.29 V fan1: 1674 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan2: 1157 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan3: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan4: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan5: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) temp1: +37.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = thermistor temp2: +127.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = thermistor temp3: +40.0°C (low = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = Intel PECI intrusion0: ALARM acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +106.0°C) temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +106.0°C) coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +50.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 0: +48.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 1: +50.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 2: +48.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 3: +46.0°C (high = +85.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Here you can see some temperature data and more. About the different sensors read more here.
Interestingly, I also ran it on the server, which is in a normal server room:
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coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +27.0°C (high = +83.0°C, crit = +99.0°C)
Core 1: +25.0°C (high = +83.0°C, crit = +99.0°C)
Core 2: +28.0°C (high = +83.0°C, crit = +99.0°C)
Core 3: +26.0°C (high = +83.0°C, crit = +99.0°C)
jc42-i2c-0-18
Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0400
temp1: +26.8°C (low = +0.0°C)
(high = +0.0°C, hyst = -1.5°C)
(crit = +68.8°C, hyst = +67.2°C)
jc42-i2c-0-19
Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0400
temp1: +26.0°C (low = +0.0°C)
(high = +0.0°C, hyst = -1.5°C)
(crit = +69.2°C, hyst = +67.8°C)
jc42-i2c-0-1a
Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0400
temp1: +26.5°C (low = +0.0°C)
(high = +0.0°C, hyst = -1.5°C)
(crit = +68.8°C, hyst = +67.2°C)
jc42-i2c-0-1b
Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0400
temp1: +26.5°C (low = +0.0°C)
(high = +0.0°C, hyst = -1.5°C)
(crit = +69.2°C, hyst = +67.8°C)
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Well, iron feels quite better here, where the temperature of the processor cores and other hardware is lower than the room temperature at home. I'd love to sit down next to the server now. : D
Hard disk temperature measurement with hddtemp
It is also possible to separately measure the temperature of the hard disks using the hddtemp program.
Installation
Install the program as root with the following command:
apt-get install hddtempRead temperature data
In this program, the readout can only be done as root. Let's run a hddtemp command, giving it the appropriate hard disk parameter as follows:
hddtemp /dev/sdaI have an SSD and a standard winchester in the machine, so for these you get:
If you do not know the exact names of your devices, you can use the following command to find out about the drives on your machine:
fdisk -l
Conclusion
With these two simple little programs, you can control the temperature of your computer and take the appropriate steps if necessary, e.g. installing an additional fan in the machine, blowing out the machine, cleaning it with compressed air spray, etc.
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