Laurent GUERBY wrote:

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:47 -0700, Pierre Patino wrote:

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I ran the test as you suggested. The result is the same -- 1.8GHz. Where did the 200MHz go? According to the BIOS settings, the powersaving feature is disabled.

Try something that really sucks cpu :)

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz $ md5sum /dev/zero & $ sleep 1 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz $ kill %1 # or whatever

On my Athlon 64 3000+ cpuinfo goes from 1 GHz to 2 GHz.

Does your BIOS report at boot the right Opteron model?

The only problem with frequency I have with SuSE 9.3 is that when I suspend to disk my laptop, after I resume frequency is stuck at the lowest possible frequency and I cannot seem to change it until I reboot, but this is a Centrino 1.7 GHz so not amd64 :).

Laurent

OK, new BIOS for TYAN K8E. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 is rated for 1.8MHz. This checks out. Previous BIOS reported 1.0GHz. This puzzle has been "solved". On ASUS K8VSE-Deluxe, the AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 is rated at 2.0GHz. This also checks out. Note to self: RTFM!