Xserve early 2009 normal fan speed?

Can anyone tell me what the normal operating speed for the Xserve early 2009 (xserve3,1) fans is?
I'm getting speeds between 5600 and 5888 RPM in a server room at 18 degrees Celsius.
David

Hi Camelot,
Thanks for your response.
Overall, the Xserve that I'm concerned about has a light workload. It's being used as a file and web server. Most of the time CPU load is around 1% - 5%. The room temperature is at 18 degrees celsius.
The System Board fans are all between 5600 and 6000 RPM.
The Power Supply fans are both at 6656 RPM.
These values remain pretty constant.
An AXD test didn't find anything wrong with the fans or sensors.
What concerns me is that Server Monitor reports the RPM values as the maximum value in its graph. See the attached screenshot.
This is not the case with our other Xserve, which is a G4.
I want to know if other users also report this behaviour or that perhaps something is wrong with the Xserve.

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I'd like to run ASD of AXD to locate the problem. Using Disk Utility I made boot disks (CD-ROM, USB, ...) containing ASD 3X106 and AXD 3X104. But the Xserve doesn't recognize neither of them as boot disks. It's impossible to boot from these disks.
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Make sure you are using 3X106 http://support.apple.com/kb/DL948 first.
I made this into a bootable image on my external hard drive. So all i have to do is plug the usb drive to the front of the xserve and boot to it.
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What is normal fan speed & temperature? (2009 iMac)

I recently bought a 27" iMac used, and I noticed today that the fans seem to run fast even when just looking at articles without video, which I found odd.
Are the below stats normal? I've noticed the Optical Drive fan at around 3300rpm at times.

If these temps are in Celsius, they seem somewhat high to me.
The GPU and GPU diode seem unusually hot to me.
I have the same model IMac as you and purchased used in 2011, my initial temps weren't as high as yours, but I was still uncomfortable with how hot it was running.
I suspect a lot of dust dirt and lint may have built up inside of your iMac.
SInce you cannot break into the iMac to clean out the dust and dirt, I recommend the use of a vacuum cleaner with a hose and crevice tool attachment to suck, instead of blowing, the dirt out of your Mac.
DO NOT USE CANS OF COMPRESSED AIR!!!!!
You will only be pushing the dust, dirt and lint further into the iMac
Power down your iMac, disconnect the power and all your connected peripheral devices, lay your iMac screen down on a soft cloth of heavy toweling and using the vacuum's crevice tool(avoid using the vacuum's brush attachments as this may cause an electrical static discharge issue) and lightly (to avoid scratching your iMac's finish) vacuum out the vents underneath the display. Also, unscrew the RAM compartment cover and vacuum the dust out of the RAM area. Vacuum the long upper vent the is across the back of your iMac. Vacuum out the CD/DVD slot and SD slot. Vacuum out all of the various connection ports on the of your Mac including the vent hole and grille that is visible through the iMac's support stand. Once done, re-setup and reconnect everything and power up your iMac and see if the temps go down.
If no joy in getting the temps down, call an Apple Store or Apple Authorised seller/repair/service center and ask about if they do interior cleaning of IMacs and its cost and schedule an appointment to get your Mac clean and free of interior lint and dust.
If, after a good clean out, you are still uncomfortable with the normal operating temps, as I am, you can do one and/or two things.
The easiest and quickest solution is to run a small desktop fan from behind the iMac and let the fan blow air on the backside aluminum panel to cool down your iMac.
The next thing you can try and use (and you'll get a lot of subjective criticism from others here on what I am about to advise) is to download a software fan controller app, like SMC Fan Control, and manually set all of your iMac's fans RPMs to a speed which gets the temps to a more comfortable level without revving the fans too high, which can act as an internal vacuum, sucking in quicker, more dust, lint and dirt inside your newly cleaned out iMac.
I use a fan control app and do not set the RPMs for any of the fans any higher than 1500-1600 RPMs (the 2009 IMac fans usually default at 1100-1200 RPMs, so I only bring them up enough to keep the highest component temps below 60-65 degrees C.
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The other night I was converting a movie with Visual Hub, with the process taking 80% of the CPU and the temp reaching 75 c with the fans staying at 2,000 RPM until about half way through the eight minute conversion. This is a time I would have expected the fans to kick in much earlier than they did.
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I opened a case with Apple to get the ball rolling and get assigned a case number. The tech on the phone could not look at the videos but didn't think there was a problem from my descriptions. He did suggest I take it in for a look.
Online I made a reservation for the Genius at the Apple Store that night. While I was waiting I was curious how other MBP's handled some serious thrashing. Since it was late and nobody was in the store, I loaded iStat Pro on three of the MBP's and opened Terminal. In two windows I ran yes > /dev/null and let them run.
On all three machines the fan speeds never got higher than the lower 4K rpm range. They all settled in around 90C and stayed there. One MBP ran these processes for about 40 minutes and the highest fan speed I remember seeing was 35XX RPM, and again around 90C, but it would fluctuate up or down a few degrees.
When my appointment came up I showed Rex, my Genius rep (Cleveland, Legacy Village store), what I had done on their machines just to get some perspective on how other MBP's handled both cores running more than 90%.
My MacBook had been asleep for a few hours. When he woke it up the fans went immediately to 4200 rpm and stayed there. He hooked up a super-duper, special, double-secret HD via firewire and booted off that. The problem persisted.
He took it in back to crack it open. He was looking for any loose connections but found none. He could not find any errors but agreed that something was amiss with my MBP.
He was not sure if my computer, being a refurb, was different when it came to returns. We called Apple on my cell, got a rep, and he arranged for them to take back my Mac since I'm within my 14 days.
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I have a Early 2009 Xserve running 10.8.4 server which is intermittantly crashing. What usually happens is the machine grinds to a halt and services stop working, access with ARD and SSH stop and even the GUI on the machine is unusable as the whole machine is running slow.
I noticed that last time is did this that the processor and ethernet lights on the front of the machine were all off even though the machine was clearly running.
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I had a day off today and decided to do a bit of cleaning as its been a while (quite a while as far as my Mac Pro is concerrned).
I shut it down, unplugged all the cables and placed it on the table.
I removed the side cover, processor tray, all four drive bays, the GPU, and the PCIe Fan.
I blasted everything with compressed air or give it a nice wipe, much better!
I placed everything back inside the case and booted it up. It sounded slightly off, but I was going to check everything anyways. I looked at iStat Menu's and noticed that "Expansion Fan" was rated at 0rpm. Not good.
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I removed the 1st and 2nd drives, took out the fan and resetted it very slowly until I heard a nice click.
Powered it up again and it still won't come to life.
I have two worries:
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2. Did I damage the connector on the motherboard?
I'm most definitely out of Applecare (the machine is just over 3 years old, about 2 months over )
I'm horrified to think what an out of warranty logic board replacement would cast me just to get this fan fixed.
How important is this fan? I've only got one PCI card inside (the HD 4870) and its fan works fine.
Thoughts?
- D

Daphoid wrote:
...I definitely need to get this fixed. The question is do I lug it into an apple store (awkward) or do I replace the fan and see if that solves it. Or third, do I have a local company do a house call (comvienent but more expensive).
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we want to utilize OpenCL on our Server. The GPU (NVidia GT 120) should be supported according to all specs I can find and one can google for benchmark results for Mac Pro's also equipped with the GT 120.
The software, OpenCL Framework, CUDA drivers, and our test programm also seem to work fine and have properly installed themselve on the server as well as on our MacBook Pro (for testing).
To be a little more exact, the NVidia CUDA drivers and NVidia CUDA Toolkit have been installed from here:
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Is this a known/wanted limitation of the XServe?
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I did go look at the NVIDA web page, and don't see something in particular to download to run some tests or to have a look at the code. (There were a pile of links over there, but nothing obvious to test to get to the error.
To run a test with the OpenCL Framework and verify that it is not just our XServe not listing a GPU device for OpenCL you could use this simple tutorial app which works out of the box and is compiled with a single click:
site: http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode3/
app: http://www.macresearch.org/files/opencl/Episode3source.zip
This should run with the original distribution. NVidia offers CUDA drivers, OpenCL works on CUDA capable devices only.
Theoretically they should not be needed because 10.6.6 already supports OpenCL but I suspected this to cause the missing device and installed them, but without the intended result:
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/31/drivers/cudadriver_3.1.17macos.dmg
Some other things might be included in the CUDA toolbox from NVidia.
I don't know why this doesn't work. Have you checked with NVIDIA directly to see if they have tested with this controller? It looks like it's listed as supported ([here|http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/32_prod/docs/Getting_StartedMac.pdf] and particularly [here|http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html]), but there are clearly issues with the device.
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I know that thread. And there are more resources on the web about OpenCL running on GT 120 cards of the Mac Pro.
I will of course ask NVidia about it, too.
TB

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are Overview:
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Total Number Of Cores: 2
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SMC Version (system): 1.45f0
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Those look like normal fan speeds for the latest Macs. But you can use software that allows you to create different speed sets for different circumstances.
I use smcFanControl. The first time you start the app it reads your Mac's default fan speeds and creates a default set. But you can create more sets with increased speeds. I live in Monterrey, Mexico with no air conditioning, just fans. It has been around 40°C everyday for weeks on end, and lately hotter. So I have a Hot set where all speeds are ramped up 200 rpms over the default speeds. And I have a Really Hot set where they are all ramped up 200 rpms more over Hot. If I see the temps edging up I usually choose the next set and increase the rpms and that usually brings the temps down to normal. If I see the temps drop down below normal I back off a set on the rpms.
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I have a few of these RAID cards in a couple servers, and then I have an earlier version of the RAID card in a few different servers.
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