Re: AMD64 overclock issue with 2.6.16 but not with 2.6.15

From: Alistair John Strachan
Date: Wed Mar 29 2006 - 14:51:12 EST


On Wednesday 29 March 2006 20:35, JimD wrote:
> Do any one know of any other issues with amd64 and the
> 2.6.16 series? I have run into a weird issue.
[snip]
> The bogomips are showing the same though the kernel is not reporting
> the correct MHz. If I reboot and check the BIOS, the correct MHz is
> reported. I have not run any CPU benchmarks to see if performance is
> really going back down to 2000 MHz.
>
> Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this?

At a guess, it sounds like you're trying to use cpufreq on an overclocked CPU,
a definitely no-no. Check your config for this option, remove it if desired.

--
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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