[CentOS] compaq r4000 /proc/cpuinfo reports 997 and should be 2400

[Jerry Geis]

Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote:
>/ Hi
/>/ I have a compaq R4000 with the 2.4GIG AMD 64 bit. 4000+
/>/ rated. proc cpuinfo reports
/>/ cpu Mhz as 997.481
/>/ Do I have to run the 64 bit version to have things run
/>/ correctly?  I just have the normal 4.2 loaded at this time.
/>/ The laptop seems slow for 4000+ as reflected by the cpu Mhz
/>/ also.
/>/ Any thoughts on running the 32 bit version of 4.2 vs the 64
/>/ bit version of 4.2?
/
>AMD PowerNow! may reduce the clock to increase battery life. 
>Try running a heafty video or 3D application while cat'ing
>/proc in the background (maybe a quick for loop that sleeps
>every few seconds).

>There can be compatibility issues with AMD PowerNow!, older
>kernels, older BIOSes, etc...


At the moment I tried "cpuspeed -C" to run at full speed when AC

I get an error about "Could not open file for writing"
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor


Jerry