From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 19:55:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] New Red Hat Linux Beta release for ia64 availabl e Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org McCaffity, Ray (ray.mccaffity@wcg.com) said: > 1. I know with all the hub-bub surrounding BogoMips the last few years on > the x86 > platforms, the number doesn't mean a whole lot. But I still use it as a > "close-enough" > baseline for some of my servers. Anyway, the output from cat > /proc/cpuinfo is > slightly different from the bogoMips in the dmesg. Which one is more > reliable? They should be resonably similar, although they might vary slightly between processors. > 2. For my 733Mhz IA64's, my BogoMips is around 730, which is slower than 1 > bogo per > MHz. This is a long way from what I get with x86 processors. That's irrelevant. > if I go too far the server starts getting unstable. What are the number > of > file handles supported by Linux 2.4.x ? It's settable in proc. See Documentation/sysctl. Bill