Is there something wrong with my cpu?

[Steph21]

Hi, I am using Kubuntu 11.04 on an Acer Aspire 5551-A. I have an AMD Athlon II P320, which is supposed to run @2.1GHz. But when I lscpu I get:

Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 64-bit
CPU(s): 2
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
CPU socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
CPU family: 16
Model: 6
Stepping: 3
CPU MHz: 1500.000 (<--- Shouldn't this be 2100.000?)
Virtualisation: AMD-V
L1d cache: 64K
L1i cache: 64K
L2 cache: 512K

[ardvark71]

Re: Is there something wrong with my cpu?

Hi....

Out of curiosity, do you get the same results with these commands?

sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
sudo cat /proc/cpuinfo

Regards...

[kubicle]

Re: Is there something wrong with my cpu?

Your system is likely just throttling down the cpu frequency to save power (and to keep things cool).

The cpu frequency should scale up when you do something cpu intensive (in other words, when you need higher frequency)