I've been doing some reading in the archives about this and have some
questions regarding 'cpuspeed'.
1 - Is cpuspeed normally run on desktops as well as laptops?
2- One place tells me throttling isn't supported, another says it is
(see below) Which do I believe?
Thanks,
Mike
[root@moe ~]# cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling
<not supported>
[root@moe ~]# cat
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
2200000 1000000
With cpuspeed running:
[root@moe ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 47
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm
3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc
bogomips : 2014.70
With cpuspeed *not* running:
[root@moe ~]# service cpuspeed stop
Stopping cpuspeed: [ OK ]
[root@moe ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 47
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2200.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm
3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc
bogomips : 4432.35
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