On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Conor McCutcheon wrote:
> I have a new athlon 750 running either prime95 or mprime 24 hours a day, but
> I am getting a ridiculously slow per iteration time for a 9.5 million range
> exponent (1.192
> sec avg). I have installed on prime95 on over 20 machines now, including an
Is this measured, or the number reported on the screen?
> Athlon 550 (it gets about .2 something seconds on a 9.4 million range
> exponent), and experience tells me this is ridiculous. CPU failure can be
> ruled out, linux dmesg agrees with the bios and box it came in anyway. Does
> anyone have any thoughts on why it is running so slowly? I looked at the
> list archives for someone mentioning such an incident, but did not find
> anything that helped.
> Thank you in advance for your help.
Note that the time taken is dependent on a correctly set CPUSpeed since
the code don't time anything, but counts clock cycles and converts using
the value you gave.
Your low speed reported is consistent with a mistype of 75 for the speed
instead of 750.
> -Conor McCutcheon
>
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