From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Albert Hafvenstrom <albhaf@home.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Better performance with 2.6
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:10:28 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0403021406560.1166@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040302195155.0384abdc.albhaf@home.se>
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Albert Hafvenstrom wrote:
> One of the things I found was that 2.6 detected my full CPU-capacity
> (nad even a bit more).
> Before, with 2.4, it showed my AMD Duron as 799.xxxx but now it is 800.047
> Is it because of some specific reason or does it just happen?
>
> /albhaf
Are you talking about BogoMips?? This is just how many twinkies
you can eat in a second with the current coding style in the
short timer counter. It has absolutely, positively, nothing to
do with "CPU capacity".
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 12:18 albhaf
2004-03-02 18:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-02 22:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-02 19:51 ` Albert Hafvenstrom
2004-03-02 19:10 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
2004-03-02 19:51 ` Chris Meadors
2004-03-02 19:58 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-02 22:10 ` Darren Williams
2004-03-02 23:46 ` Mike Fedyk
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