jimdunn Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 I have a Pentium 4 Mobile 3.06 GHz processor in my laptop. I use cpufreqd to scale processor speed, and it generally runs around 2.2 GHz, which is good, because that stops the fan kicking in too much. I have a superkaramba widget running on my desktop which shows, amongst other things - processor speed, which it gets from /proc/cpuinfo. I noticed today that, all of a sudden, it is reporting 4.45 GHz. Nothing has changed - no software/hardware changes, and it can't really be running at this speed or my fan would be on 100% of the time, and temperature would be up. However, /proc/cpuinfo indeed shows 4.45 GHz However, /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq shows 2.25 GHz and ltpconf (a laptop configuration utility) agrees with 2.25 GHz. So... what would cause /proc/cpuinfo to suddenly start reporting this odd, incorrect, high speed, when it has returned the correct one for months ? It's not a problem, because I know the speed is only 2.25 in reality - but I'd like to know what caused this odd behaviour. Any ideas ? thanks Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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