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Display your CPU's true speed
Authored by: ahbe on Dec 04, '03 11:20:01AM
What the !@#$? Ok, so I typed it in, and I get this back.

$ sysctl hw.cpufrequency 
hw.cpufrequency: 533333332
I thought perhaps I had the Energy Saver options set wrong. Nope, my 867Mhz 12" Powerbook is plugged in and set for "Highest" processor performance. Then it occurred to me, maybe you need to run it as root. So it tried a Sudo as well. Same response. So why is it telling me its running at 533Mhz? This is unacceptable! Something's got to be wrong here. Either it's my Powerbook, or this command. Please help!

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Display your CPU's true speed
Authored by: ahbe on Dec 04, '03 11:22:35AM

Never-mind my previous comment. As I was typing some other people had already posted comments. It's good to know my Powerbook wasn't running at 533MHz. Thanx guys. =)



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