How can I programatically find out the CPU frequency?[ ... ]
Better ideas?
Here's a chunk of code from an old homework assignment from my days at CMU. :-)
http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/clockspeed/
This uses an iterative method to achieve results within a certain accuracy-- a few percent-- but it works as a normal user without requiring anything more than the standard Unix interval timers.
28-ns1% ./freq The clock frequency is approximately 395 Megahertz
29-ns1% dmesg | head
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Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (399.86-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C MOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
-- -Chuck
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