clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> If the tools that come with openSUSE 11.2 are right, then on my AMD 
> Phenom QuadCore box single-threaded apps (e.g. MegaPOV or MCPov ;-)) 
> perform doubly poor (or actually something around 6.5-fold): Not only do 
> they use just 25% of the total available processing power

  Isn't that the correct number for a single-threaded app running on a
quad-core?

> - by their 
> failure to do so they also motivate some instance in the system to 
> further reduce that total, by throttling the CPU clock from 2.3 GHz to 
> as low as 1.4 GHz (actually 1.15 GHz when idle)...

  Are you sure it's not doing that because of overheating instead?

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