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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:58 +0100
From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Organization: Grupo PIE
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To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
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Subject: Re: Performance disparity, problem found
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Frans Pop wrote:
> Paulo Marques wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Good catch! 'chmod +w /proc/cpuinfo' should do the trick.
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP

Thanks, that did the trick. My first machine is much faster now and it
even has 4 cores! :)

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