Okay: my BIOS reads:
CPU Temperature:  36 (C)
System Temperature:  39 (C)

My BIOS shutdown temperature is 70 (C). Does this eliminate (or help
to eliminate) the possibility that it's the RAM overheating? I don't
think that's it, as the server used to be my gaming machine (Windows!
Eek!) and never overheated then. After I upgraded my gaming machine, I
retired it to a server.

I'm still trying to see if there's anything in particular that I do to
create the page faults. It seems to work better when I don't have
other processes screened. I'll try memtesting each of the individual
sticks of RAM... but it seems that whatever's causing this would most
likely affect both sticks.

- David Shaw 


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:40:38 -0500, Steven M. Bellovin
<smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> In message <59cc77be05031417076c20030a@mail.gmail.com>, David Shaw writes:
> >How can I tell if my mbmon readings are accurate? It seems to continue
> >to read at 201.0 C, so I'm thinking that it's completely off. Any way
> >to check (without opening up my case and attempting to melt a finger)?
> >
> 
> Can you check what the BIOS says?  Many BIOSes will report temperature;
> while that won't eliminate bad sensor problems, it will rule out NetBSD/
> pkgsrc software issues.
> 
>                 --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> 
>