On Sep 26 2007 19:29, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >Vahe Avedissian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Folks, >> >> I am not sure this is an opensuse 10.2, or motherboard, or bios bug, but >> when I cat /proc/cpuinfo, I get two different speeds listed for two >> identical cpus on in my system (look at the listed cpu MHz entries) : >> >> more /proc/cpuinfo >> processor : 0 >> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD >> cpu family : 15 >> model : 33 >> model name : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 >> stepping : 2 >> cpu MHz : 1000.000 > >That is the frequency the cpu currently runs at. We power down the cpu >when it's idle. Give it some more to do and it will increase again. > >The feature is called cpu frequency scaling, you can control it with the >powersave command. > >Everything is working fine ;-)
Is it possible that there is a kernel-level 'race' here while it fetches information for each core? I.e. if frequency is changed due to whatever reason between two successive show_cpuinfo()? [Yes, it looks like] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
