Re: measuring cpu frequency
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:48:24PM +0000, Ivan Fernandez wrote:
> OK, I've been trying to set up cpu frequency scaling in my Dell Inspiron
> 5150 (3.06GHz Mobile Pentium 4, debian testing and 2.6.5 kernel). I
> seem to have everything in place, cpu frequency scaling compiled into
> the kernel, together with performance and powersave governors, userspace
> governor as default, frequency tables helpers too, and the p4-clockmod
> module as driver. All the relevant files show up under
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ and the userspace daemon I use to
> switch frequencies (powernowd) loads and apparently changes frequencies
> alright.
>
> My problem is that I can notice no cooling at all, CPU temperature is
> around 70C most of the time, just as the same as before enabling the
> whole cpufreq thing. I don't know how to measure real frequency:
> the numbers that show on /proc/cpuinfo match with
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed, but x86info -mhz
> (which reads from /dev/cpu/0/cpuid, I believe, shows a different clock
> speed (higher, either around 1500 MHz or, most of the time, the full
> 3.06 GHz). Which one should I trust? Is there any other way to measure
> cpu speed accurately?
>
I don't know how accurate it is but you could try bogomips. It doesn't
report cpu frequency but the bogomips value which is a measure of the
cpu speed (I don't know what the values are). It should let you know
the relative speed of the cpu.
Notice that from the command line it will give half the real value on
some platforms, so don't worry if the value you get is half of what
/proc/cpuinfo reports.
> Thanks
>
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> Ivan Fern?ndez
> ivan.fernandez@vanderbilt.edu
>
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