On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Steve Berg 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? > > You've probably got the cpuspeed daemon running and it's throttling > the CPU since there's not enough load on the system to need the > additional clock cycles. gaaaah. of course, that was it. thanks. now to figure out the virtualization oddity. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- 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
