At Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:31:11 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > On Thursday 15 April 2010, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have quite a few low-end development/test servers running > > continuously and I would like to better manage their power > > consumption. > > I have found interesting information on how to perform CPU scaling > > (e.g. [1] or [2]). > > > > But I cannot find if there is a way to (software) monitor power > > consumption on CentOS (or other such data like CPU temperature, fan > > speed etc.). > > Most machines simply don't have that hardware. Some laptops do and then, with > proper kernel, you can run powertop (or read /proc/acpi/power...). Some things are handled by motherboard and/or processor sensors and lm_sensors will access these sensors ("CPU temperature, fan speed etc."). -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk