Re: GPU Temp. for 2 video cards

Bill WIlson schrieb:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:19:59 -0500
> Bill WIlson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> I found that nvclock has a problem with at least the nvidia chipset (Geforce 6150)
> on a couple of my boxes.  It reads the video card bios and stores a copy
> in ~/.nvclock/bios0.rom and subsequent runs use this cached bios as long
> as it passes some checks to verify it's still valid for the found video card.
> nvclock with my 6150 always fails in this check and so the bios is reread
> every time nvclock is run and this causes my high CPU usage.
> 
> So, I can't do an automatic nvclock check and there will need to be
> some kind of configuration enabling its use.  But in the meantime, I've
> gone ahead and put up a tarball you can use for nvclock gpu temps that
> does do an automatic check when nvidia-settings fails to find any temps.
> I'm still thinking this over, but I expect the way it will work is when you first
> upgrade to any gkrellm version >= 2.2.11, you'll have to go into the sensor
> config somewhere and enable using nvclock.
> 
> The tarball is:
>     http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/test/gkrellm.tar.gz
> 
> Let me know of any problems if you try it.

Now 12 hours uptime without any issue. Works good, Thanks!


Cu

Achim

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