Re: Suse reports CPU speed as 1GHz

Hi there,

Odie Ferrous wrote:
I have Suse 10.1 installed on an AMD 64 4000 machine.

The system reports the CPU speed as 1GHz, yet it is actually
substantially more than that.

The powersave daemon has a CPU frequency policy that can slow
down your CPU clock in times of low demand. If you start a CPU
intensive app you will find your system reports the clock speed
to be full speed again. My Athlon64 runs at 1 GHz most of the
time, but jumps to 2 GHz when I start something that needs lots
of CPU.

The policies can be changed. Use kpowersave in KDE - I'm not
sure what the Gnome equivalent is but I'm sure there would
be one.

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