heatload VERSION - CPU Load and ACPI Temperature Monitor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 2002 Lennart Poettering --------------------------------------------------------------------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This Gnome utility produces nice looking realtime graphs for the current CPU load and ACPI temperature of your Linux machine. It is nice for monitoring the direct relation of the former to the latter. The reason I developed this program was that the ACPI implementation of my laptop seems to be broken, and I needed a simple way to determine when the machines became too hot. Requirements ------------ As of version 0.1 you need a Linux kernel 2.4 with a fairly recent ACPI patch. (I used 20020308) Without this patch, the utility will not recognize your temperature sensor. Starting with 0.2, I added support for plain 2.4.18-Kernels (and some kernel versions prior) with ACPI 20011018 based on a patch by Ian Morgan. lm_sensor-devices are not supported. (Somebody wants to send me a patch?) For compiling you need a recent g++ with Gtk-- and Gnome-- installed. I did my development with 1.2.8 resp. 1.2.2. Development ----------- Development was done under Debian GNU Linux Woody for i386 from March 2002. The used machine was a Medion 9580-F laptop. Installation ------------ Run "make" for compiling the program. You might want to install it permanently on your system by issuing "make install" as root. This install the heatload executable to /usr/local/bin/. For removing this installation you might want to try "make deinstall" as root. Internet -------- You may find up to date releases of this utility on http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/heatload/ You may download this release from http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/heatload/heatload-VERSION.tar.gz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lennart Poettering , 2002