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karotlopj

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Temperature monitor
« on: June 11, 2016, 03:10:13 pm »
Does anyone know of a temperature monitor for OS/2?

Joop

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Re: Temperature monitor
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2016, 05:10:14 pm »
I use smartbar, but if it will work depends on used chipsets. The question is for what purpose? You can't switch on or off cooling, its all automatic. My fans go up and down in rpm with temp, so with hot days and cpu intensive work the fan of the cpu goes wild, but I can't switch it on or off or change parameters or so.  The only thing you can do is building your own computer. Put in a powerhouse factor 2x for what you need, this will keep temp down and because you have enough energy your systems runs also cooler. Because you build your own device you can set up the best way for your cables, these can have a major influence on cooling. With flat cables you can steer the flow to a hot area. Take a big cabinet, with only on two sides holes for cooling. The cases with holes everywhere in the housing can't make a flow, this is important. Air intake by a fan needs to be transported through the housing and not leave it just after the intake through holes in the sides. Light and other blingbling (shiny stuff) doesn't belong in a computer and add up to high temperatures. Mount hard discs (whatever system, brand) with about half an inch from each other, so air can flow through it and take heat away. Most cases are designed wrong on this point. Same for cards, if it possible don't mount them next to each other. Motherboard is 41deg C and cpu is 48deg C, single core. I have two fans, one cpu 2050rpm and one chassis fan 2600rpm, but it goes up and down all the time. Home is now 25deg C to give you an idea. So its nice to know, but that's about it. So if you can't find a system what understand your mobo, don't be sad about it. Smartbar is for 95% of cpu time not active.
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Dariusz Piatkowski

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Re: Temperature monitor
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2016, 03:26:56 am »
I use smartbar, but if it will work depends on used chipsets. ..

I thought I'd give this a try, installing the latest release from Hobbes (3.2) causes a fail in the TCPIP module though:
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06-11-2016  21:22:23  SYS3175  PID 0136  TID 0004  Slot 00c7
G:\TEST\SMARTBAR\SMARTBAR.EXE
c0000005
1f64f4ab
P1=00000002  P2=02c55a80  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX 
EAX=00000000  EBX=00000000  ECX=001a47d0  EDX=00000004
ESI=00000000  EDI=00000000 
DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff 
ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1f64f4ab  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff
SS:ESP=0053:02c56a8c  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff
EBP=02c56a98  FLG=00010246

TCPIP32.DLL 0001:0000f4ab

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Have you seen this before?

My machine is a 6 core SMP box...

Thanks!

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Re: Temperature monitor
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2016, 06:39:43 am »
Really it depends on your hardware. I usually use coretemp (hobbes), which directly reads my C2D cpu temps, eg currently 35/50 with the 2nd core disabled due to idleness so it doesn't update. Just tried smartbar which reports my CPU (maybe the sensor in the socket) as 27 while my MB is running at 246 :) Previously I used various temp monitoring programs depending on chipset, the last being XMBMon2.
Coretemp being open source could probably be adapted to read any modern CPU's temperature register and might currently work with newer Intel CPU's

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Re: Temperature monitor
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2016, 12:23:01 pm »
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the last being XMBMon2
Once I tried to update it to read the values via ACPI cause I do not use a system anymore which is supported by current version. But unfortunately the temperature sample code in ACPI-toolkit does not compile without stuff I believe only David has on his system :-( Maybe I should open a ticket at AN.

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Re: Temperature monitor
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2016, 01:01:58 pm »
I use smartbar, but if it will work depends on used chipsets. ..

I thought I'd give this a try, installing the latest release from Hobbes (3.2) causes a fail in the TCPIP module though:
Have you seen this before?
My machine is a 6 core SMP box...
No, haven't seen this before. But the software is not 100% working, the fix for 3.2 doesn't work all the time on my machine. I have a single core and I don't use the tcpip part, that's already in the workplace bar. As wrote before, for what reason do you want to use it? I had first only a cpu fan together with the fan in the powerhouse. Temp did raise on hot days to very high levels. Knowing that I installed an old fan in front with as result temps around 50deg C. So SmartBar is only fired occasionally to check on rpm fans, if these are going down and stay down then I know its time for some cleaning or oil ;-). That's about it.

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Re: Temperature monitor
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2016, 06:53:47 pm »
I use smartbar, but if it will work depends on used chipsets. ..

I thought I'd give this a try, installing the latest release from Hobbes (3.2) causes a fail in the TCPIP module though:
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It works here with my dialup connection but where it is tapping into the TCPIP stream seems weird. My computer is also the gateway for the house with Injoy doing NAT. If I load a page here, the Smartbar TCPIP monitor correctly shows the traffic but if the traffic goes from PPP1 to LAN0 or the other way, it does not show up in Smartbar even though it shows in the ecentre widget and the modem is blinking. I also notice in the settings that traffic ranges are for dial-up speeds.
The program needs updating for modern Internet useage

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Re: Temperature monitor
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2016, 05:07:48 am »
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the last being XMBMon2
Once I tried to update it to read the values via ACPI cause I do not use a system anymore which is supported by current version. But unfortunately the temperature sample code in ACPI-toolkit does not compile without stuff I believe only David has on his system :-( Maybe I should open a ticket at AN.

I think you should open that ticket. I compiled the sample code a few versions ago.
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