On Nov 6, 2007 2:12 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 1:35 pm, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 6, 2007 1:18 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > We use a script here at work that runs whenever someone logs into > > > their machine that logs various bits of information to a database. One > > > of those bits is the CPU's model and speed. While this works in 95% of > > > the time, we have some fringe cases where the only thing returned is > > > the processor name. We use this data to help us decide which PCs need > > > to be updated, so it would be nice to have the processor speed in all > > > cases. > > > > > Currently, this script is run on Windows boxes only, most of which > > > have Windows XP on them. Right now I am having Python check the > > > following registry key for the CPU info: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\ > > > \DESCRIPTION\\System\\CentralProcessor\\0 > > > > > I've also used Tim Golden's WMI module like so: > > > > > <code> > > > > > import wmi > > > c = wmi.WMI() > > > for i in c.Win32_Processor (): > > > cputype = i.Name > > > > > </code> > > > > > On the problem PCs, both of these methods give me the same information > > > (i.e. only the processor name). However, if I go to "System > > > Properties" and look at the "General" tab, it lists the CPU name and > > > processor speed. Does anyone else know of another way to get at this > > > information? > > > > You'd want the MaxClockSpeed property. There's a few other clock speed > > properties as well, > > seehttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394373.aspx. > > > > MSDN should always be your first stop with WMI questions, by the way. > > That's true, but I didn't just use WMI to try to get this information. > I also looked in the registry...although I forgot to mention that I > used the _winreg module to do so. > > I did see that when I looked at Microsoft's Python scripts here: > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/python/pyindex.mspx?mfr=true > > MaxClockSpeed doesn't report the speed the same way MS does in the > System Properties, but I suppose I can work around that. Although this > will make AMD 3800+ procs look much slower (i.e. 2.4 Ghz in this > case). > >
System Properties probably uses current clock speed, which will usually be lower than max clock speed on modern processors, which scale their speed with load. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
