Thanks Steve,
Just on bogomips for a second.
I get about 550 on my AMD K6 266 (64 meg RAM) at home but only 301 on my
PII 300 (128Meg) at work and 40 on my Pentium 133 (32meg) NEC laptop should
I be concerned ?
Dunc
Steve Philp wrote:
> duncan wrote:
> >
> > >
> >
> > Quick question.
> >
> > When I start the server I get a great picture of tux and some blurb
> > about my machine.
> >
> > How can I modify the blurb and the picture of tux?
>
> man linux_logo should have information about modifying what gets
> displayed.
>
> > Should I ask what a bogomip is? I'll leave that for another day.
>
> A Bogus MIP. Linus needed something to figure out how many instructions
> per second a machine could do (to customize timing loops), and thus was
> born the BogoMIP. About the only thing they're useful for to a user is
> to see if something is wildly misadjusted with your machine. If you get
> 300 BogoMIPS, while your friend gets 500 on an exact same chip, you've
> got a configuration problem.
>
> --
> Steve Philp
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