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How to measure the clock pulse of my computer manually?

My PC has two processors, and I know that each one runs at 1.86 GHz. I have just read about clock cycles and I only have a (very) rough understanding, so I apologize beforehand if my question is so ...
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Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Sandy Bridge CPU throttling

Intel Sandy-Bridge family i5 Core CPU, running Linux kernel 3.2 (Debian Squeeze/Wheezy), under heavy computation load, does not react to to cpufreq-set -g powersave (using acpi_cpufreq module). It is ...
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Has anyone actually tested laptop battery life under different CPU governors?

In theory, switching from the ondemand governor to conservative should save battery life on laptops. However, I don't think I've ever seen any tests done to verify this or show how significant a ...
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Loading speedstep_centrino kernel module

Because of a noisy fan in my laptop, I need to change CPU frequency and for this task I need to load the appropriate kernel module. The CPU in my laptop Acer TravelMate 4002WLMi is: $ cat ...