Performance disparity, problem found

From: Paulo Marques <pmarques-AT-grupopie.com> To: linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org Subject: Performance disparity, problem found Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:30:41 +0100 Archive-link: Article, Thread

Hi, all I have two machines that show very different performance numbers. After digging a little I found out that the first machine has, in /proc/cpuinfo: model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.00GHz while the other has: model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz and that seems to be the main difference. 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? -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com "To know recursion, you must first know recursion."