Temperature and CPU Frequency Control with Linux

[dougz]

Thought the following tutorial article would be useful for silence-loving Linux users. Minimal material on this topic in SPCR before.

The article covers debian/ubuntu and redhat/fedora/centos, but is distribution agnostic.

Keywords -- lm-sensors lm_sensors sensors-detect cpufreq-selector coolnquiet speedstep

http://www.beginlinux.com/index.php/des ... eq_control

[Licaon]

the "ondemand" / "userspace" settings are better, as they'll scale the speed as needed by the system/applications

you can monitor temperatures/voltages with xsensors or integrate them with Conky as showed below:

(this is my AM2 system running Sidux, specs in my sig)