On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 09:26 -0700, JD wrote: > On my notebook, which has an old 2.2 GHz athlon65 uniicore (3700+), > cpuinfo shows cpu MHz as 798.103 > > Does that mean that as I am typing this message, the cpu is running > at only 790MHz?? > How an I speed it up? First, please don't hijack threads. Opening a new thread is far more useful. As for your question, your machine is most likely dynamically down-clocking the CPU in-order to reduce power usage. (In AMD's case, it's called Cool&Quiet) Once the CPU load increases, the CPU speed will increase. Try this, open console, and type: $ while [ 1 ] ; do echo -n ; done & sleep 10s; cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz ; kill %1 You should see the CPU speed increase. - Gilboa -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines