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      mikekoke last edited by

      Hi everyone,
      it might seem like a stupid question, but what command should I use to view the current usage of the CPU clock?
      One more thing, through the widget and the commands I see the same temperature for all the cores even if I set the temperature sensor on AMD K8 having a fx 6300.
      Thanks for your help.

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      • stephenw10
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

        If the sensors widget is showing the same value then that's what the driver is reporting. Either the core s really are all the same or your CPU is not correctly supported by the amdtemp driver.

        The CPU usage can be viewed in Diag > System Activity or by running top -aSH at the command line.

        Steve

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          mikekoke @stephenw10 last edited by mikekoke

          @stephenw10 said in CPU temperature and clock:

          If the sensors widget is showing the same value then that's what the driver is reporting. Either the core s really are all the same or your CPU is not correctly supported by the amdtemp driver.

          The CPU usage can be viewed in Diag > System Activity or by running top -aSH at the command line.

          Steve

          Thanks for the help, I thought that something could be done to be able to improve the temperature data, for the first question I mean the clock in real time, how many Ghz are used by each CPU at that time.

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          • stephenw10
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by stephenw10

            It will be running at full speed (or whatever you have set in the BIOS) unless you have enabled powerd in System > Adv > Misc and there is a cpufreq driver that recognises your CPU.
            If that is the case it is reported on the dashboard in the System Info widget like:

            CPU Type 	Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3558 @ 2.20GHz
            Current: 1700 MHz, Max: 2200 MHz
            4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
            AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active) 
            

            You can also see pull those values from the sysctls.

            Steve

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              mikekoke @stephenw10 last edited by

              Okay, but is there a command to use in the command prompt to see the clock?

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              • stephenw10
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@fw321.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
                dev.cpu.0.freq: 1162
                

                You can also see the coretemp values there:

                [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@fw321.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl dev.cpu.0
                dev.cpu.0.temperature: 42.0C
                dev.cpu.0.coretemp.throttle_log: 0
                dev.cpu.0.coretemp.tjmax: 98.0C
                dev.cpu.0.coretemp.resolution: 1
                dev.cpu.0.coretemp.delta: 56
                dev.cpu.0.cx_method: C1/hlt
                dev.cpu.0.cx_usage_counters: 29834998
                dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% last 660us
                dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1
                dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/1/0
                dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1744/13850 1743/9995 1660/8710 1577/7425 1494/6140 1411/4855 1328/3570 1245/2285 1162/1000
                dev.cpu.0.freq: 1162
                dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
                dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
                dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
                dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
                dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
                

                Steve

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                  mikekoke last edited by

                  Thanks, this is what I meant

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