It's not clear what "hz_actual" represents

[jontwo]

I've just raised a ticket on pytest-benchmark because of differences in the cpuinfo between two test runs.

It looks like hz_actual is just reporting the first value it finds in /proc/cpuinfo, i.e. a snapshot of one core. Would it be possible to take an average or min/max or something more representative? Here's what I see on my machine, the values change every time I run the command.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "MHz"
cpu MHz         : 2979.381
cpu MHz         : 1401.886
cpu MHz         : 4000.000
cpu MHz         : 4000.000
cpu MHz         : 2039.271
cpu MHz         : 1797.567
cpu MHz         : 1483.572
cpu MHz         : 4000.000

In your bug report please include:

• CPU architecture
  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz

• Operating System
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  VERSION_ID="22.04"
  VERSION="22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"

• Python version
  3.10 (from gitlab's python:3.10 docker image)

• Version of py-cpuinfo
  9.0.0