On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
Are you running any of the cpufreq packages that might be limiting the speed on one of the systems?
If you are running cpufrequitls, what does cpufreq-info say?
Thanks for that pointer. On the 1.2GHz system it says the following (along with lots of other things): current CPU frequency is 1.20 GHz (asserted by call to hardware). cpufreq stats: 1.80 GHz:6.27%, 1.20 GHz:93.73% (59743) On the 1.8GHz system it gives the following as it's entire output. So it seems that the NEC which always runs at 1.8GHz is the broken one in this regard. But I'm still chasing performance problems with the Lenovo... # cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU maximum transition latency: 4294.55 ms. analyzing CPU 1: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU maximum transition latency: 4294.55 ms. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/