On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:25:51PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > > sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to > > work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0 > > Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl command does work. when the system > is mostly idle, It outputs '198' and when I put a high cpu load on it, > it outputs '397'. I'm not exactly sure what this means as I'm hoping > it doesn't refer to the MHz.
I'm afraid it does; $ sysctl -d dev.cpu.0.freq dev.cpu.0.freq: Current CPU frequency When I see a CPU speed of 1 GHz in conky, I get: $ sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq dev.cpu.0.freq: 1000 (on my athlon64) What does 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' report? It should list the available CPU frequencies. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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