The ratio is often quite different among different families of processors. I have observed the following:
Intel P-150 ~60 bogomips (0.4x) Cyrix 120 ~120 " (1.0x) AMD K6/2-350 ~700 " (2.0x) See the BogoMips mini-HOWTO for a fairly complete list. Bob On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:52:53PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Renai LeMay wrote: > > RL> in some cases catting this file did not produce any information. > > You could use the bogomips to do 'educated' guess of the actual cpu speed, i > have noticed that intel and amd both run pretty close to each other, i haven't > had cyrix in my machine yet so i can't say how much it would be off but i > would > guess that cyrix would be about 20%-25% slower due to lack of cache on cpu. > > 500mhz k6 ~ 1000 bogomips > 180mhz intel ~ 375 bogomips > > so intel 166 should be around 345 bogomips ... in another words if you divide > the bogomips shown by 2.08 you should get approximate cpu mhz ;) > > I know this is not even close to be precise, but you could get an idea ;) > > RL> Anything else? > RL> And offtopic, but is there an equivalent file in FreeBSD? > > you could look for 'BYTEmark' benchmark port for linux/unix but that won't > tell > you much except some comparising index to p90 and k6/233 > > > Dingo. > > > ).|.( > '.'___'.' > ' '(>~<)' ' > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port 3333 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=- > Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 6:41, 7 users, load average: 0.95 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S