Subject: Re: how fast ist this machine really?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/06/2005 22:44:24
ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:

>Does

>  NetBSD tiger 3.0_RC5 NetBSD 3.0_RC5 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Dec  1 01:48:31
>  UTC 2005 builds@b4.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RC5/i386/
>  200511302123Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RC5/src/sys/arch/i386/
>  compile/GENERIC i386

>enable the CPU to run at full speed, or is it switched to half speed?

NetBSD doesn't switch anything. If you have a working est driver
(you don't) and run estd from pkgsrc, then it is switched.

>cpu0: "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz"
>cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU
>cpu0: Intel (686-class), 3200.22 MHz, id 0xf43
>cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep running at 1600 MHz (1420 mV)

You are using a 800MHz FSB CPU, the SpeedStep frequencies
shown by the est driver are computed for a 400MHz FSB, so your
real clock frequency is twice that, i.e. full speed.