Re: [tlug] The guy with Panasonic in the nomikai (Intel Software for Core 2 duo processors)

[Dave Brown <dagbrown@example.com>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:57:43PM +0900, Pietro Zuco wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm sorry for the strange title but I remember in the last nomikai
> that three people had a Panasonic notebook: Erin, (one more guy I
> don't know the name), and me.
> I remember that we had all the sizes and he has the big one and Erin
> the small one ;-)
> 
> For the guy I don't remember the name:
> I'm sorry that I don't know your name!!

It's okay, I have a very forgettable name.

> We was talking about the temperature of the processors. Now I have almost 
> 70C:
> 
> root@example.com:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ00# cat temperature
> temperature:             67 C
> 
> root@example.com:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ00# cat ../TZ01/temperature
> temperature:             69 C

Wow, that does seem a touch on the excessive side.

> I have an external non precise thermometer bought for 900yen at
> Tsukumo that indicates now 50C touching the downside of the laptop.
> The thermometer is cheep and it maybe is a shi.. but a difference of
> 20 degrees is excessive. So I wonder what is the real temperature.
> 
> For that reason I remember that the tluger I don't remember the name,
> talk to me about a software from Intel that I can use to monitor the
> CPU temperature, performance and so forth.
> 
> I was looking for that software but no results.

The program you're looking for is "powertop"--more details at:

    http://www.linuxpowertop.org/

but if you're running Debian or a variant, you should be able to just
apt-get install powertop.

--Dave