[Fedora] Re: Odd /proc/cpuinfo

[Rick Stevens]

On 01/11/2010 01:59 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>       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
>> If you have cpuspeed or cpu-freq running, it will scale the speed of
>> the CPU based on workload.  If the machine's busy, the CPU will run
>> faster, if not...
>      Bingo.  That's what it was.  The moment I turned cpuspeed off it
> went to 3400.000.  I had no clue cpuspeed was even installed.  Thanks!

Glad to help.  Leave it running and enabled.  It can't hurt anything
and may extend the life of your CPU.

I have the applet on my panel, too.  It's nice to see the rate bob up
and down depending on what evil things I'm asking the machine to do
(right now it's compiling a kernel and a big hack to gnash).
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