Odd /proc/cpuinfo
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 11 21:48:46 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 11:40 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> So I never paid attention to this since I always assumed the system
> will do The Right Thing (TM), however while going through servers today,
> I came across this discrepancy and was hoping someone here could help me
> figure out what's going on.
>
> While 'cat'ing /proc/cpuinfo I see this (other information removed):
>
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 15
> model : 4
> model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
> stepping : 10
> cpu MHz : 2400.000
> cache size : 2048 KB
>
> Someone please explain to me how the CPU is a 3.4GHz CPU (which I've
> verified by reading it right off of the top of the processor) and yet
> two lines down it says that it's 2400.000 MHz (or 2.4GHz) What happened
> with the missing 1GHz? The second CPU reports the same thing.
>
> Is this a motherboard issue? Possibly not configured right? If so,
> boy do I feel stupid considering this machine has been in production for
> a long time and no one's ever noticed.
>
> Comments?
>
> A
That is strange since I have a similar machine and the numbers that
correspond to the ones you show match.
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 2800.000
cache size : 1024 KB
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