On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Alexander Motin wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I recently discovered a system where the floppy drive cable was > > intermittently fouling the CPU fan - I believe this caused the CPU > > to overheat and then get throttled by the BIOS. > > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to determine if this is the > > case? ie is there a way to be informed if throttling has occurred? > > Theoretically it is possible. I know off-topic tool reporting this. > Also you can just monitor CPU temperature, depending on CPU type.
Monitoring CPU temperature is a bit difficult, there are a lack of tools (although I have some code it's not complete). The problem is that the CPU temperature is only a proxy measurement, I would much prefer to be told directly the BIOS is throttling rather than guess :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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