Nuclear Monster

  • Date Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:30:41 +0100

    From Paulo Marques <>

    Subject Performance disparity, problem found

    Hi, all

    I have two machines that show very different performance numbers.

    After digging a little I found out that the first machine has, in

    /proc/cpuinfo:

    model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.00GHz

    while the other has:

    model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

    and that seems to be the main difference.

    Now the problem is that /proc/cpuinfo is read only. Would it be possible

    to make /proc/cpuinfo writable so that I could do:

    echo -n “model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @

    2.40GHz” > /proc/cpuinfo

    in the first machine and get a performance similar to the second machine?

    via LKML: Paulo Marques: Performance disparity, problem found.

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