[TriLUG] How to find FSB speed within linux

[Andrew Ball]

Have you tried dmidecode?

Peace.
Andrew

On 11/21/06, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> A coworker asked me this question and after searching
> for a while, I can't seem to find a really good answer.
>
> His question is how do you find what the current front side
> bus (FSB) speed is from within a running linux system?
> (Obviously on an x86 system...)
>
> If you can get to the startup logs in /var/log/dmesg it
> might have the speed there as "host bus speed" but
> from observing several different systems it's doesn't
> seem to be always guaranteed and some systems
> seem to make that file not user readable.  I can't
> seem to find this reliably, though, in either /proc
> or /sys.
>
> So, does anyone have a better answer?
>
> Thanks much,
> Tanner
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