[ale] cpuinfo data

[JK]

James P. Kinney III wrote:

> 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.

You've probably already checked this, but doesn't
AMD "scale" the speeds of their chips to be
comparable to Intel chips in performance? So
an AMD "2600" might actually be running at
1800Mhz, but perform equivalently to a 2600Mhz
Intel chip (or so they'd like us to believe).

-- JK