11 Jan
2005
11 Jan
'05
12:26
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas told me that:
How does the kernel calculate the processor speed?
See a short program compute_MHZ.c at http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/various/ Basically it reads the TSC register which counts processor clock cycles in two distinct times and divides by microseconds passed. Michal Ludvig - -- * A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in. * Personal homepage - http://www.logix.cz/michal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB48UZDDolCcRbIhgRAtASAJ9hqovpr8yfxjoSThQNCHUcc7GLiwCbBBgp CQdwRbG46Mvg6Dcm4UzB2lA= =McgK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----