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From: oyvind@datavakten.no (Øyvind Jægtnes)
To: Pat Verner <pat@isis.co.za>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.[01] and BogoMips
Date: 05 Feb 2001 13:27:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8766ipjow0.fsf@mordor.datavakten.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010205133359.00aac3f0@192.168.0.18>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010205133359.00aac3f0@192.168.0.18>

Pat Verner <pat@isis.co.za> writes:

> I have Linux running on several older Pentium machines - Pentium -166
> MHz and Pentium - 120 Mhz.
> 
> Under kernel 2.2.13+ these machines report a BogoMips of 66 or 47
> respectively;  suddenly under kernel 2.4.[01] the speed is suddenly
> reported as 332 and 238 respectively.
> 
> Has there been a change in the definition of "BogoMips"?

AFAIK bogomips is just an internal delay calibration variable and not
something used to test the speed of the cpu, rather just how long a
certain loop takes to execute.


Øyvind Jægtnes

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-05 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-05 12:19 Linux 2.4.[01] and BogoMips Pat Verner
2001-02-05 12:27 ` Øyvind Jægtnes [this message]
2001-02-05 13:15 ` rui.sousa
2001-02-05 17:35 ` Pete Toscano

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