[ale] cpuinfo data

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 17:32 -0500, Denny Chambers wrote:
> Is this a laptop cpu? Mobile CPU's (and possible some green Desktop 
> CPU's) have stepping technology, where they will step down the CPU speed 
> to save power (battery).

Not a laptop. This is a 2U server. There are two. One with dual core
Opteron supposedly at 2.6GHz but cpuinfo says is a 1.8GHz and the other
is a dual core Xeon that both cpuinfo and bios says is 2.6 GHz.

Both are running Fedora Core 5 x86_64.
> 
> 
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > How does /proc/cpuinfo get it's data?
> >
> > I noticed today a system claims to be 2.6 GHz machine (according to a
> > bios check and sticker on the box!) yet /proc/cpuinfo consistently
> > reported it was really a 1.8GHz cpu.
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