On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:18 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): > > model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 800.000 > ... > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca > cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt > rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm > cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch > > the above *seems* to suggest an oddly slow processor (800 MHz), but > the "svm" flag tells me it has AMD H/W virt support, correct? > > however, if i pop over to the corresponding(?) AMD page: > > http://products.amd.com/en-na/NotebookCPUDetail.aspx?id=18&f1=&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=&f10= > > that page suggests that that processor is 2 GHz, but that there is > *no* H/W virt support. > > i'm confused. am i just misreading something? /proc/cpuinfo shows the current clock speed. Many processors, especially laptops, scale down the speed of idle processors to save power. Try running a program that contains a tight infinite loop and see what happens then. Not sure about the virtualization part. > > rday > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > ======================================================================== > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
