On 10/24/07, Ross Penner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ross Penner wrote: > > > Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In > > > examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates > > > that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are supported. Does the C7 chip > > > have support that I don't know of? If not, will it? Otherwise, will > > > specifying the chipset as C3 help or hinder my environment? > > > > I know this is not an answer, but why not just upgrade to 7.0 if you > > need the C7 support? > > I probably will. I just thought I'd try and see if I could stay on stable > first. > > > My second question is in regards to the CPU frequency control. I've > > > seen that the C7 gets support for cpufreq in 7 current, but I'm > > > running 6. Without support in cpufreq, what speed would my processor > > > be running at? I've always thought my performance has been lackluster > > > so I suspect it's running at the lower clock speed. > > > > If cpufreq/powerd is not active, your processor is running full-speed. > > You can check this with "sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq" if it's available on > > your system. > > sounds reasonable. unfortunetly, 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq' doesn't seem to > work on my system. heh, it'd probably work if I upgrade to 7.0
Apparently I'm an idiot. the sysctl command does work. when the system is mostly idle, It outputs '198' and when I put a high cpu load on it, it outputs '397'. I'm not exactly sure what this means as I'm hoping it doesn't refer to the MHz. It's a 1.2GHz processor. Can somebody help me interpret this result? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
