Re: SPAM: Re: [SLE] SPAM: AMD Dual core "clock speed"

On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:57, Susemail wrote:

On Saturday 14 October 2006 07:19, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:28 -1000, Susemail wrote:

With respect to the AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ are
they taking two cpu's (cores) running at 1 Ghz - summing their clock
speeds and calling it a 2.4 Ghz processor?

No, your processors are running in "dynamic" mode, which means they
adapt their frequency to how you use the system. If you run something
CPU intensive, they will (or should) go to max speed.

If you want them running at max speed always, set this in YaST's
powersave module (change from Dynamic to Performance I think it's
called)

It is called Performance. I had set it to that some months ago when I
bought the machine. I'm going to load the linux_frequency_driver-1.60.01
now from AMD to see if that helps.

Jerome

On the command line you can use "powersave -f", to make a temporary
change to max CPU power

This worked: Clock: 2411 MHz. My current kernel (linux-2.6.13-15.12) comes
with cpu-freq documentation so I assume the driver is already loaded. Now on
to the Nvidia driver.

Thanks,
Jerome