Hello: I am looking at the RHEL 5.4 virtualization guide. According to Chapter 17, if I want to use KVM on my machine, I need to check if it has the constant Time Stamp Counter by running this: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep constant_tsc When I do that on the server (Currently running CentOS 5.3), I do not get any output. According to the output, that means my system does not have the counter. It then gives me instructions for AMD revision F CPUs. I did a search and did not find anything that seems relevant to revision F. The only stuff I am finding is talking about socket F. Is that the same things as a Socket F CPU or something different? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com> wrote:> It then gives me instructions for AMD revision F CPUs. > I did a search and did not find anything that seems relevant > to revision F. ?The only stuff I am finding is talking about > socket F. Is that the same things as a Socket F CPU or > something different?For example, http://www.chiplist.com/AMD_Athlon_64_processor/tree3f-section--2103-/ may help. Akemi
On Sunday 18 October 2009 10:53:07 Neil Aggarwal wrote:> It then gives me instructions for AMD revision F CPUs. > I did a search and did not find anything that seems relevant > to revision F. The only stuff I am finding is talking about > socket F. Is that the same things as a Socket F CPU or > something different?No, Rev F is different than Socket F ... you can get a Turion X2 TL for a laptop with socket S1 but still running a Rev F chip Rev F originally meant the dual core socket F chips built in 90nm but later other chips derived from the opterons but used different sockets kept the rev F... If you want to know the socket, you can run dmidecode. Look for the processor section and under there Socket Information. Most boards (at least all but one of the ones I'm running right now) provide you a proper socket identifier. Peter. -- Censorship: noun, circa 1591. a: Relief of the burden of independent thinking.