I have a system (not a laptop) that has an "AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor", as reported in /proc/cpuinfo. I have been monitoring the CPU speed as reported there and I see that quite often the speed is reported as 800 MHz instead of 3300 MHz. For example, I ran the four commands pretty much one after the other. The speed is changing all the time: roger@acme:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu MHz" cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 roger@acme:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu MHz" cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 roger@acme:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu MHz" cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 roger@acme:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu MHz" cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 2500.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 cpu MHz : 3300.000 The system is busy when this is run. So I cannot think there are unused CPUs that are made to slow down because they have nothing to do. Especially changing as often as they seem to be changing. Is this expected behavior? -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org