Well, yeah, I knew you could get it straight out of /proc,
but I thought he wanted to see it somehow represented
graphically.

He can also get much more useful information than raw
CPU speed in /proc/cpuinfo by looking up his bogomips,
which correspond to an adjusted rating MUCH nicer than
a simple reading of the CPU speed in Mhz.  It's a mini
benchmark (take it with many grains of salt though...
it's only truly useful when comparing Family/Family
to show better performance within a chip, or Chip
to identical chip, not when BOTH change... too many
variables).

BTW, even /proc/cpuinfo has it's limits... it assigns the
"Raw" cpu speed on CPUs, which may "misidentify" them if
they used the old PR ratings (i.e., I have a Cyrix MII 300
which is ACTUALLY a 3.5x66Mhz (233Mhz) CPU, but Cyrix
branded it a PR300....) so if I wanted to describe it
by it's tradename, I need to know I need to make that
change myself.

Also BTW, it's xosview in Linux that I was recommending;
osview is on the SGIs I also work on alot.

Bill Ward

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rechenberg, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 12:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Newbie needs 1-Graphic Process Status 2-Mem use 
> 3-CPU Speed
> 
> 
> CPU speed can be determined from /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> To see the full kernel view of the CPU:
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ward William E DLDN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:16 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Newbie needs 1-Graphic Process Status 2-Mem use 
> 3-CPU Speed
> 
> 
> > From: Will Standley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> > During the search we couldn't find...
> > 
> > 1) A GUI equivalent to the command line "process status" or 
> ps command
> 
> Either Xload, os_view, or xos_view might be what you're looking
> for, depending.
> 
> > 2) A way to tell
> >     a) how much memory the system thought was in the box and
> 
> os_view/xos_view
> 
> >     b) how it was being used.
> 
> os_view/xos_view
> 
> > 3) A tool for checking the speed of the processor.
> 
> No clue right off....
> 
> > He knew of a utility for 1 above but couldn't remember the 
> > name... so we
> > couldn't search for it.
> > 
> > Can anyone help here with suggestions for tools for the above 
> > 3 items...
> > also if you have an idea why the unit is running so slow.
> > 
> > Thanks for any help,
> > 
> > Will
> 
> 
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