[26853] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.26: athinfo cpuspeed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu May 18 15:58:12 2006
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Thanks for the bug report. With regard to this assertion:
> athinfo should either indicate the actual maximum processor speed, or
> both the maximum and the current.
While I agree that that would be useful, it's not at all clear that an
otherwise-undocumented query called "cpuspeed" is incorrect to report the
currently running speed.
Is max cpu speed information present in some trivially-scannable format
in /proc/cpuinfo or elsewhere on such a machine? If so, a copy of
/proc/cpuinfo (or whatever else is relevant, assuming it's small) would
be helpful.
For the nonce, I've documented the current behaviour.
