Frequency scaling survey

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>> Slim Joe wrote:
>>>>> Could some list members post the result of the
>>>>> following two commands (second "cat" command may
>>>>> break across two lines):
>>>>>
>>>>> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'
>>>>> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking to upgrade my current Sempron 1.8GHz
>>>>> and am interested to find which mainstream dual-
>>>>> core processor (Intel or AMD) is most efficient
>>>>> at doing nothing. (The Atom would be too slow
>>>>> for me.)
>>>>>
>>>>> My results:
>>>>>
>>>>> model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
>>>>> 1800000 1000000
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA
>> @xfx:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'
>> model name    : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
>> model name    : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
>>
>> @xfx:~$ cat 
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
>> 2400000 2200000 2000000 1800000 1000000
>> 2400000 2200000 2000000 1800000 1000000
>>
>>
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'
> model name	: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 2.66GHz
> 
> $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> 2666600 1599960
> 
> 
That was for my Dell Inspiron 5150  laptop. Here is my work workstation:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
model name	: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+

$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies: 
No such file or directory

$ cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/
/sys/devices/system/cpu$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:54 cpu0
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:54 cpu1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:54 cpuidle
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 2009-02-05 12:55 sched_mc_power_savings
/sys/devices/system/cpu$ cd cpu0
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:55 cache
-r-------- 1 root root 4096 2009-02-05 12:55 crash_notes
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 2009-02-05 12:55 topology
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0$

No I'm not a programmer. Now what?


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