On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So I never paid attention to this since I always assumed the system > will do The Right Thing (TM), however while going through servers today, > I came across this discrepancy and was hoping someone here could help me > figure out what's going on. > > While 'cat'ing /proc/cpuinfo I see this (other information removed): > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 15 > model : 4 > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz > stepping : 10 > cpu MHz : 2400.000 > cache size : 2048 KB > > Someone please explain to me how the CPU is a 3.4GHz CPU (which I've > verified by reading it right off of the top of the processor) and yet > two lines down it says that it's 2400.000 MHz (or 2.4GHz) What happened > with the missing 1GHz? The second CPU reports the same thing. > Speedstep? By default, it is running, even on newish desktops, and they don't always go "full out". pj > Is this a motherboard issue? Possibly not configured right? If so, > boy do I feel stupid considering this machine has been in production for > a long time and no one's ever noticed. > > Comments? > > A > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
