Please note the CPU clock speeds in the following extract from dmesg:

pc45:paul {103} dmesg | grep cpu
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 3 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) Pentium III (686-class), 1004.59 MHz
cpu0: features 383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features 383fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,FGPAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
cpu0: I-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way
cpu0: L2 cache 256 KB 32b/line 8-way
cpu0: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 327 MHz
cpu0: 8 page colors
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 0 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) Pentium III (686-class), 2455.47 MHz
cpu1: features 383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features 383fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,FGPAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
cpu1: I-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way
cpu1: L2 cache 256 KB 32b/line 8-way
cpu1: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu1: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
cpu1: CPU 0 running
pc45:paul {104}

Both CPUs are 1GHz P-III, yet it appears that one of them is running
just a bit on the fast side, at 2.5GHz!   :)

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