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From: James Long <james_mapson@umpquanet.com>
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Subject: Re: how find out CPU clockrate?
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:12:20AM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> 
> $ dmesg | grep -i hz
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (349.20-MHz 686-class CPU)
> 
> 
> Better ideas?

Only slightly better, but:

grep -w ^CPU: /var/run/dmesg.boot

/sbin/dmesg is not always trustworthy.