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From: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Caroline GAUDREAU <caroline.gaudreau.1@ens.etsmtl.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, coywolf@gmail.com
Subject: Re: bugs?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:57:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051214105723.GA25166@favonius> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051214024316.GG15993@alpha.home.local>

Willy Tarreau wrote (ao):
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:47:58PM -0500, Caroline GAUDREAU wrote:
> > my cpu is 1400MHz, but why there's cpu MHz         : 598.593
> > 
> > caro@olymphe:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > processor       : 0
> > vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family      : 6
> > model           : 9
> > model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
> > stepping        : 5
> > cpu MHz         : 598.593
> > cache size      : 1024 KB
> 
> It's probably a notebook that you started unplugged from the mains
> power. Mine is stupid enough to believe that I *want* to save power if
> I plug the mains *after* powering it up ! And there's no way to force
> it to switch from 600 to nominal freq afterwards ! So I have to
> connect it to the mains first.

If you say this based on 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' output: isn't it true that
/proc/cpuinfo is static, and doesn't necessarily reflect the actual
speed of the processor?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-14 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-14  1:47 bugs? Caroline GAUDREAU
2005-12-14  2:10 ` bugs? Andrew Haninger
2005-12-14  2:14 ` bugs? Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-14  3:02   ` bugs? Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-14  2:24 ` bugs? Dave Jones
2005-12-14  3:03   ` bugs? Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-14  3:25     ` bugs? Dave Jones
2005-12-14  2:43 ` bugs? Willy Tarreau
2005-12-14  3:05   ` bugs? Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-14 10:57   ` Sander [this message]
2005-12-14 11:04     ` bugs? Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-14 11:32     ` bugs? Dirk Henning Gerdes

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