On 19 May 2000, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > I have a dual PII/450, and recently upgraded to kernel 2.2.15. Ever since
> > the upgrade, I think, the kernel has been reporting 900 or so bogoMIPS for
> > each CPU (it always used to report around 450 for each). Is this anything
> > to worry about, or doesn't it matter?
>
> this was discussed a couple of weeks ago. apparently the bogomips
> number has been doubled by the kernel code. 1 old bogomip = 2 new
> ones. afaik there is nothing amiss with your system.
It looks like the relationship between old bogomips and new bogomips
varies with processor type (just like bogomips:mhz varies by processor
generation). On my dual P120, I just upgraded to 2.2.15 today, and the
factor is 5.
[root@sloth /root]# grep -i bogomip /var/log/messages
May 20 18:14:09 sloth kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 238.39 BogoMIPS
May 20 18:14:09 sloth kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 239.21 BogoMIPS
May 20 18:14:09 sloth kernel: Total of 2 processors activated (477.59
BogoMIPS).
May 14 15:57:28 sloth kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 47.72 BogoMIPS
May 14 15:57:28 sloth kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 47.82 BogoMIPS
May 14 15:57:28 sloth kernel: Total of 2 processors activated (95.54
BogoMIPS).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jon Lewis *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*| I route
System Administrator | therefore you are
Atlantic Net |
_________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________
-
Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/smp-howto/
To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
