# On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 aidas@ixsrs4.ix.netcom.com wrote:
# > I have a P133. When I first started, the /proc/cpuinfo said that I had a
# > 133MHz processor. About an hour later, I look at /proc/cpuinfo from my
# > user account, and get this:
# > clock_speed : 132 MHz
# > That happened several times. Then it reverted back to:
# > clock_speed : 133 MHz
# This is definitely not a bug. On my machine, I get 119 instead of 120
# about every 20th time I read /proc/cpuinfo.
# Does your harddrive run because of some other process while doing this?
Not necessarily. The true speed is 66(external clock) x 2(multiplier) for
a total of 132. Or, if you prefer, 66.66Mhz x 2 (133.33).
It's common for programs to miscalculate the actual internal speed of a
processor. It's one of the reasons I'm surprised that it made it into the
kernel (being so hard to do and mostly innacurate). Even ctcm (a quality
low-level benchmark util) fluctuates between 131 and 134 for a P133.
N!
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