Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:01 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: > what I want to know, is if you have a desktop that you use for normal > every day computing (web browsing, email, update rpms and that type > thing) is it worth running cpuspeed and letting your cpu's get > throttled until needed I can't sa

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread suvayu ali
On 4 February 2010 15:01, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:57 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > >> /proc/cpuinfo shows the current clock speed.  Many processors, >> especially laptops, scale down the speed of idle processors to save >> power. >> >> Try running a program that contains

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Chambers
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:57 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > /proc/cpuinfo shows the current clock speed. Many processors, > especially laptops, scale down the speed of idle processors to save > power. > > Try running a program that contains a tight infinite loop and see what > happens then. Qu

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Arne Chr. Jorgensen
>  undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): > > model name  : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 > stepping    : 2 > cpu MHz : 800.000 > ... > flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce c

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:14:16 -0700 Phil Meyer wrote: > That will confirm or deny kvm loading correctly. If so, virtualization > is functional on that cpu. Except that if it is disabled in the bios, the /proc/cpuinfo still says the cpu has the capability, yet the module loading won't work (thoug

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Phil Meyer
On 02/04/2010 01:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Steve Berg wrote: > > >> >>>undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a >>> gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): >>> >>> model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Steve Berg wrote: > > > > > undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a > > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): > > > > model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 > > stepping: 2 > > cpu MHz : 800.000

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:18 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): > > model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 > stepping: 2 > cpu MHz : 800.00

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Steve Berg
> > undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): > > model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 > stepping: 2 > cpu MHz : 800.000 > ... > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae m

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:23:08 +0300, Hiisi wrote: > And what lshw says? And dmidecode? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/Mai

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/2/4 Robert P. J. Day : > > > >  undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a > > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): > > > > model name      : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 > > stepping        : 2 > > cpu

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Hiisi
2010/2/4 Robert P. J. Day : > >  undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a > gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): > > model name      : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 > stepping        : 2 > cpu MHz         : 800.000 > ... > flags           : fp

difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 800.000 ... flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr