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amanusk / s-tui

Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
https://amanusk.github.io/s-tui/
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Temperature: wrong value is displayed or - more likely - the temperature is displayed in a way apt to be misread #95

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Step 1: Describe your environment

Step 2: Describe the problem:

Observed Results: My conky and the program hardinfo show the cpu temperature as being significantly less (namely, some 70 degrees) than s-tui seems to report (namely, some 85-90 degrees). However, I think I may be reading s-tui's graph wrongly.

On all this, please see attached screenshot, and note that the 'spikes' on s-tui's temperature chart surprised me, in that I thought they were off the scale. Perhaps some sort of graphical notch, showing the ends of the scale, would be an idea? Also, showing the current temperature, as a number, would be good - but perhaps there is a way of doing that already.

Step 3: Reproduce the problem:

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Run s-tui stress test (though perhaps my specific hardware plays a role?).
  2. Compare what s-tui's temperature graph seems to say, to what other temperature monitoring tools say.

Screenshot: image

amanusk commented 5 years ago

Hi, Thanks for the issue. The side bar is scrollable, you can use the arrow keys or j an k to scroll to the bottom, where all the stats on the graphs and some more appear in text value. (This is also written in the FAQ ;)

When you open in a very small window, some details are lost.

ghost commented 5 years ago

I did have s-tui in a somewhat larger window; the window is very small in the screenshot because I wanted to get other windows into the shot. But I take your point - about needing a large-ish window to see a decent amount of detail, about the scrolling (about which, yes, I was unaware). Still, I continue to think that notches on the scale might be a good idea.

ghost commented 5 years ago

Also, is the 'FAQ' link broken? Nothing seems to happen when I click it (and I tried in two browsers).

amanusk commented 5 years ago

We did try to add additional notches, when the screen is enlarged.

screenshot from 2018-10-14 08-33-27

Also, is the 'FAQ' link broken? Nothing seems to happen when I click it (and I tried in two browsers).

Yes, it appears so

ghost commented 5 years ago

Re notches: I do not mean values on an axis. I mean short horizontal lines connecting values on an axis with the body of the graph - somewhat like this:

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See also this graph.