Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Alexey Eremenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

> We'v been test driving one box with openSUSE 11.0 on an i7 920 since
> around 1 June.  The only issue I've seen is in the /proc/cpuinfo
> display :
>
> processor       : 7
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 26
> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU  920  @ 2.67GHz
> stepping        : 5
> cpu MHz         : 1600.000
> cache size      : 8192 KB
> physical id     : 0
>
>
> I can't quite figure out why the cpu MHZ is quoted as 1600 when it's
> otherwise a 2.67GHz cpu.

I think it is power-saving feature. When there are no heavy apps
running CPU is working at 1.6 GHz, but when u launch some heavy apps,
it goes full speed at 2.66 GHz.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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