Re: Different speed CPUs show up as same speed
Michael Graff <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brett Lymn <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:57:36AM -0400, John Klos wrote: > > > > So the issue is a little bug - the code that reports the speed of the > > second CPU does not actually report the speed of the second CPU. Anyone > > feel like checking this out? > > > > Wow - differing CPU clock speeds. In most MP setups I know about that > would result in a lock up at some point in the future. Not only that, but what if a program test for and uses CPU specific instructions that only exist on one CPU? Running a SMP machine with non identical CPUs sounds wrong. - --Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (NetBSD) Comment: See http://www.flame.org/~explorer/pgp for my keys iEYEARECAAYFAj0IEvAACgkQl6Nz7kJWYWYD5QCcDvSnsiVFQ3YqIQev8u6n08Db bRUAn2QX5FspeQNSAa3mLO7CH5CjCojt =7tnR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----