Re: GPU Temp. for 2 video cards

Bill WIlson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:20:29 -0500
Bill WIlson <[email protected]> wrote:

> > On my System (GF6600) nvidia-settings make none output for GPUCoreTemp.
> > But the tool nvclock from http://www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock/ make
> > this output. Can gkrellm read this value?
> 
> No, but I'll try to get it added in.  I should be able to get to it tomorrow.

I've run into a problem with this.  nvclock eats a big chunk of CPU and it
adds 4 seconds to the gkrellm start up time.  Running it at the sensor check
interval puts more of a load on the CPU than I want gkrellm to do.  Maybe
you can confirm this on your box in case there's something unusual about
my setup?

I get:

~$ time nvclock -T
nVidia Geforce 7600GS
=> GPU temperature: 75C

real    0m1.991s
user    0m1.870s
sys     0m0.117s

and on another box it goes up to 3.6 seconds real.  If you get similar results
you can get an idea of the effect this would have in gkrellm by running:

$ while true; do nvclock -T -c 2; sleep 4; done

and watch the gkrellm CPU chart.  I get over 1 second 100% CPU bursts
every 5 seconds - ouch!  This is nvclock 0.8b2-1 from Debian.

Do you see this?

Bill
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