I’m sitting in class the other day and my computer seems to be making a lot of noise, wondering what could be going on I start to explore.
earobinson@NaN:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone$ cd /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/;
earobinson@NaN:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM$ ls
cooling_mode polling_frequency state temperature trip_points
earobinson@NaN:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM$ cat *
<setting not supported>
cooling mode: critical
<polling disabled>
state: ok
temperature: 57 C
critical (S5): 90
Now to explain /proc is a “directory” created during boot up that contains a lot of information about your computer.
Other files of interest are:
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 (folder) battery info
/proc/uptime uptime info
/proc/version version info
/proc/cpuinfo cpu info
Let me know what info you can find in /proc.
Oh ya I was able to determine that I had a process that was using up all my cpu causing the fan to run on high using the top command.
Oh Ya I guess we could also call this my hello world post to planet ubuntu
Hello World!
Great to see you in the ubunt planet. I would love to learn about what you do. Drop some information about yourself. Do you program? Are you a motu? What things could we learn by listening to your blog?
And hey, I try to add as many ubuntu members to my chat as possible. My jabber if you have it is the same as my email. Hope to hear great things from you.
I find it almost necessary to have CPU/memory status applets in my GNOME panels. It helps you notice when you have a runaway app using all the CPU when it shouldn’t, or when your memory becomes nearly full and it’s time to restart Firefox or some other memory hog.
When I use a computer without these applets I feel like I’m driving a car without a speedometer and a fuel gauge.
Ill be flushing out my about page some time in the next few weeks, but you can always check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/earobinson
Take a look at this article it is interesting in reguards to /proc.
Also Welcome to planet Ubuntu.
Thanks Andrew!