Re: bugs?

[Sander <sander@humilis.net>]

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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