Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:49:26 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: (Dima Dorfman) <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, (Charles Henrich) <henrich@sigbus.com>, (Otter) <otterr@telocity.com>, (Matt Rudderham) <matt@researcher.com> Subject: Re: CPU Speed? Message-ID: <XFMail.001205194926.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001206023233.8112D3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On 06-Dec-00 Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Matt Rudderham wrote:
>>
>> > Otter wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > sysctl kern.clockrate
>> > > kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 10000, tickadj = 5, profhz = 1024,
>> > > stathz = 128 }
>> >
>> > This appears to be meaningless, as it is the same on all computers (I
>> > tried two, and they're both identical to yours).
>> Me as well, a 133MHz and a 200MHz system both come up with above response. I
>> am interested in the answer now though:)
>
> I believe this might be your answer:
>
> dima@hornet# sysctl machdep.tsc_freq
> machdep.tsc_freq: 498853267
This is only present for Pentium's or later. This will not work on 386 and
486, nor will it work on an Alpha, IA/64, PPC, etc.
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