[OT] make your Linux box hot

[Vu Pham]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:48:02AM +1100, james at jamesmcdonald.id.au wrote:
>>> Under Linux, do we have any tools that can monitor the CPU temperature
>>> and/or speed ? Currently I have to boot to Windows to use these tools.
>>>
>>> I have just been able to make my Linux box hotter : push the quad cpu
> 
> Vu, sorry, but when I read the Subject: line, I wondered if this was
> going to be some perverted spam. "Make your Linux box hot" just has a
> totally different connotation for me than what you intended. This might
> simply mean that I'm a sick, twisted freak.

Should have had the topic "make your cpu hot" :)) <jk>.
Thanks for correcting me. I will make the topics more relavant next time.

> As to the meat of your question, you want something to overclock from
> Linux? Wouldn't cpufreq or some such do the job?

I need to monitor the temperature, voltage ... also in order not to cook 
my CPUs.

Anyway, I just tried the cpufreq - in my system, it is cpufreq-selector 
- and it looks like to me that this tool will set the frequency for 
CPUs, but I just do not know how to display the current frequencies of 
the cpus. Its help is so short.
[root at o hwmon]#  cpufreq-selector  -?
Usage:
   cpufreq-selector [OPTION...] - CPUFreq Selector

Help Options:
   -?, --help          Show help options

Application Options:
   -c, --cpu           CPU Number
   -g, --governor      Governor
   -f, --frequency     Frequency in KHz

and there is no manual.

[root at o hwmon]# man cpufreq
No manual entry for cpufreq
[root at o hwmon]# man cpufreq-selector
No manual entry for cpufreq-selector
[root at o hwmon]#


Thanks,
Vu