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in reply to Current processor frequency?

On linux it's quite simple, the current cpu frequency is stored in the pseudofile /proc/cpuinfo,
in the line "^cpu MHz".

I have however no idea how one could get the freqeuency the processor is capable...

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Re^2: Current processor frequency?
by Joost (Canon) on Aug 01, 2007 at 22:13 UTC
      perhaps it's not as easy I thought..

      to me it shows the current frequency, although I've got a smp kernel. (2.6.18)
      Google said the same for most users.
      e.g. http://docs.huihoo.com/gentoo/resources/document-listing/power-management-guide.html
      So I'd guess it's dependent on the kernel version, I wasn't able to find something more specific in the kernel documentation.
      A short research in the kernel sources didn't answer this, too.

      What google also told me..

      There is more info in the files
      /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
      /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq
      /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq

      cpuinfo_cur_freq is only readable by root on my system, so this could lead again into problems.

      At least my question how the max frequency can be determined has been answered. :-)