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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:51:33
Message-Id: F7F84263-595A-41D3-BE22-B3954C1FE5E9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: /proc/cpuinfo by James
1 On 29/11/2010, at 5:38pm, James wrote:
2 > ...
3 >> Without a doubt the result of that darn CPU throttling thingy (CPU
4 >> frequency scaling).
5 >
6 > Well, I did not realize that /proc/cpuinfo was dynamically modified
7 > every time a processor changes (power) states....?
8 > I thought it was a (static) maximum) based on reading
9 > the hardware once. Nice to know it's dynamic.
10
11 Do something processor intensive to test. `yes` seems to have bring CPU utilisation to 100% here.
12
13 Stroller.