Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:59:00 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo |
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>I can't think of a single valid reason why a program would want >to know the MHz rating of a CPU.
Humans like to know what their machines are doing.
Simple as that: it's for the end-users, and the place they look for it is always /proc/cpuinfo (since that works on every platform and on kernels prior to the 2.[56].* series.
Not useful as an accurate number for any programming algorithms, but it is used to satisfy human curiosity. A lot.
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