-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-05-14 08:49, Felix Miata wrote:
I have a Foxconn motherboard with Phoenix-Award BIOS and Cedar Mill P4 (Hyperthreading PAE single core) RAID1 system with 11.0 first installed, later 11.2 added, and still later with 11.4 added, now with 3.3.4-1-desktop, giving me three boot choices. 11.4 has been running fine many months, except that /proc/cpuinfo has been reporting my 3.4GHz CPU running at 2400MHz for as long as I can remember, back to when I had a cooling problem and purposely underclocked to keep the temperature down. So today, long after solving the cooling problem, I finally tried to get the CPU speed where it belongs. Eventually I just did a "load optimized defaults" in the BIOS, with a resulting CPU speed within a few MHz of 3400.
Notice that the cpu speed should normally be low and speed up when loaded: the system would report the low setting when asked. You can force it to be at the low or high setting permanently if you want. If you display clock speed in a graph, and cause the puter to be loaded, you should see the speed go up.
I've been using puters for decades, and have never had clock trouble anything like this. I found http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/howto/time.html, but it's 8 years old, not particularly easy to understand, and I have to wonder if kernel evolution has changed things anyway.
I wrote that piece. AFAIK, it is basically correct (it does not describe things like hpet or tsc), but what it describe is not related to your problem. I think you should report your clock problem going fast by so many minutes in a bugzilla. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+yN5YACgkQIvFNjefEBxppvACfdTON5OO8QI8dusfSysmqMSOx N34AnihUrSOz+V3/fDViXdb2R6aklplC =FrYU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org