When the CPU is in power saving mode it runs much slower. Usually they are set up to run at full speed after a short burst of sustained use. This can affect short benchmarks of course.
Bill. On 15 Nov, 12:50, Gonzalo Tornaria <torna...@math.utexas.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:32 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8220 > >> cpu MHz : 1000.000 > > > Why do you say "1000" MHZ when that particular processor is a 2800Mhz > > (=2.8Ghz) processor? > > [...] > >> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz > >> cpu MHz : 800.000 > > > That cpu MHz of 800 makes no sense, given that your CPU is 2.26GHz. > > I'm just curious. > > CPU throttling? > > Gonzalo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
