On Wednesday, March 23, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > Never know what they can do. But the current max is 6 GHz by IBM for > any core, right? :) > > The majority of current hardware do per core frequency scaling (or > bursting), but hw.cpuspeed is reporting the BIOS CPU speed > (considering over and under clocking) for each core before the scaling > happens, right? So going forward with such complicated CPU designs, > top will lie or be misleading. What about 64+ cores (OpenBSD supports > 64 cores!) and many of them idle with low frequencies? How do you > display them? > > I tried it and like it as end user, its cool. Wait for other gurus to chime i > n.
What I mean, is should you be "adding" the current "frequency" of each core and display it as a total, only show the max(freq(cpu(N))), or the avg(freq(cpu(N))), or some other metric? -Toby.
