On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:02:24PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:16:11PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > I can't think of a single valid reason why a program would want
> > to know the MHz rating of a CPU. Given that it's a) approximate,
> > b) subject to change due to power management, c) completely nonsensical
> > across CPU vendors, and d) only one of many variables regarding CPU
> > performance, any program that bases any decision on the values found
> > by parsing that field of /proc/cpuinfo is utterly broken beyond belief.
>
> If you want a userspace governor to change the CPU speed, you need to
> export the value to userland.
We have sysfs files for that.
Dave
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