Hi,
> I'm having a similar problem. My Athlon X6 1090T is
overclocked from
> 3200 to 3700, yet appears to be running at 800mhz. I've stopped
> /etc/init.d/cpufreq, but where the monitor usually shows 3200 when
> it's stopped, now it's showing 800.
>
> processor : 5
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 16
> model : 10
> model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor
> stepping : 0
> cpu MHz : 3200.000
...
> bogomips : 7449.19
...
> # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/bios_limit
> 3200000
>
> # dmesg |grep Detected
> [ 0.000000] Detected 3724.112 MHz processor.
> [ 5.144606] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=1024M, BAR=256M
From the output of your /proc/cpuinfo, it shows
your cpuspeed to be 3200.00 MHz, not 800MHz.
Your bogomips is stated to be 7449.1 mips.
Where are you seeing 800MHz? From a benchmark
or other system file?
The little cpuspeed icon in the icon bar at the top shows it, and so
does gkrell. If I shut down cpuspeed, it shows 3200 in all places, but
there's still the disparity with the "Detected" line from dmesg.
I haven't isolated it yet, but for some reason sometimes gkrell and
the cpuspeed icon shows 800 even when /proc/cpuinfo shows otherwise.
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 798.186 <<<<< This is my baddie :)
And you don't have cpuspeed running? Is it any different if you boot
into single-user mode and rule out any programs or other drivers that
may be influencing the CPU speed?
Thanks,
Alex