Re: Performance disparity, problem found

From: Paulo Marques
Date: Thu Apr 01 2010 - 09:51:15 EST


Frans Pop wrote:
> Paulo Marques wrote:
>> Now the problem is that /proc/cpuinfo is read only. Would it be possible
>> to make /proc/cpuinfo writable so that I could do:
>>
>> echo -n "model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @
>> 2.40GHz" > /proc/cpuinfo
>>
>> in the first machine and get a performance similar to the second machine?
>
> Good catch! 'chmod +w /proc/cpuinfo' should do the trick.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP

Thanks, that did the trick. My first machine is much faster now and it
even has 4 cores! :)

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