linux-kernel - Performance disparity, problem found

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Date:	Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:30:41 +0100
From:	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Performance disparity, problem found

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

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