Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler

[Mike McGrath]

On 1/31/07, James Wilkinson <fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk> wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Smolt is a hardware profiler for Fedora so we can get a better idea of
> > what type of hardware is out there in the Fedora universe.  It's still
> > in beta but those of you running FC6 or newer (rawhide) can
> > participate.
> >
> > Just type "yum install smolt"  followed by "smoltSendProfile".  All
> > sends are anonymous and the only tie to hardware is via a UUID that
> > gets sent.  We can't trace the UUID back to you without you giving us
> > the UUID, which may be helpful for those experiencing hardware or
> > driver issues.
>
> I've just checked out smoltPrint, which claims
>      We would send the following information to the Fedora Smolt server:
>
> One very noticable problem in the information it reports is that it
> reports the current CPU speed, not the maximum. It calls my system a
> 1 GHz system (which it is, when it's not loaded, due to Cool'n'Quiet and
> cpuspeed), not a 2 GHz system.
>
> Would it not make more sense to query
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq , if it exists?
>
> Would you like me to Bugzilla this, or use
> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/newticket?
>
> James

Hmm, good question.  Most of the hardware reporting issues here are
actually based off of rhn-client-tools.  I'd submit it to
bugzilla.redhat.com.  You'll be hearing from me soon hopefully.

        -Mike