Laptop cpus use power management to lower the clock speed.. so depending on when you read the cpuinfo depends on how fast your cpu is measured at.. (this is the recent response from dell when a coworker of mine asked the same thing) Jason On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Zou Min wrote: > Hi, > > It's old that my BIOS reports CPU MHz is 700, while /proc/cpuinfo > give me 547. > Will it degrade my original CPU performance? > > I am using IBM Thinkpad A20p, Linux-2.4.19. > > Thanks for any advice! > > -- > regards, > > ZM > -- > It only rains straight down. God doesn't do windows. -- Rod Schmidt > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
