Monday, August 15, 2011

cpu frenquency on Linux

Question: my desktop has a AMD 2.2GHz CPU, but the /proc/cpuinfo shows that the frequency is only 1G Hz. Why?

Answer: the cpu has been set to a low freqency to save the power.

Ref: http://www.pantz.org/software/cpufreq/usingcpufreqonlinux.html

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