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[ale] cpuinfo data
- Subject: [ale] cpuinfo data
- From: dchambers at bugfixer.net (Denny Chambers)
- Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:32:13 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
Is this a laptop cpu? Mobile CPU's (and possible some green Desktop
CPU's) have stepping technology, where they will step down the CPU speed
to save power (battery).
James P. Kinney III wrote:
> How does /proc/cpuinfo get it's data?
>
> I noticed today a system claims to be 2.6 GHz machine (according to a
> bios check and sticker on the box!) yet /proc/cpuinfo consistently
> reported it was really a 1.8GHz cpu.
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