Performance disparity, problem found

Performance disparity, problem found

[Paulo Marques]

Hi, all

I have two machines that show very different performance numbers.

After digging a little I found out that the first machine has, in
/proc/cpuinfo:

model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.00GHz

while the other has:

model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz

and that seems to be the main difference.

Now the problem is that /proc/cpuinfo is read only. Would it be possible
to make /proc/cpuinfo writable so that I could do:

echo -n "model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @
2.40GHz" > /proc/cpuinfo

in the first machine and get a performance similar to the second machine?

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

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Re: Performance disparity, problem found

[Frans Pop]

Paulo Marques wrote:
> Now the problem is that /proc/cpuinfo is read only. Would it be possible
> to make /proc/cpuinfo writable so that I could do:
> 
> echo -n "model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @
> 2.40GHz" > /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> in the first machine and get a performance similar to the second machine?

Good catch! 'chmod +w /proc/cpuinfo' should do the trick.

Cheers,
FJP

Re: Performance disparity, problem found

[Paulo Marques]

Frans Pop wrote:
> Paulo Marques wrote:
>> Now the problem is that /proc/cpuinfo is read only. Would it be possible
>> to make /proc/cpuinfo writable so that I could do:
>>
>> echo -n "model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @
>> 2.40GHz" > /proc/cpuinfo
>>
>> in the first machine and get a performance similar to the second machine?
> 
> Good catch! 'chmod +w /proc/cpuinfo' should do the trick.
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP

Thanks, that did the trick. My first machine is much faster now and it
even has 4 cores! :)

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

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