Subject: Re: Better performance with 2.6
From: Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net>
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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 14:10, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> 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".

He probably meant MHz.  But the same thing.  What difference does a
tenth of a MHz matter?

I do have a question about BogoMIPS.  I know they don't mean anything,
but why on my Opteron system with two processors that read the same on
the cpu MHz line, do my bogomips vary so much?

processor       : 0
cpu MHz         : 1393.980
bogomips        : 2736.12

processor       : 1
cpu MHz         : 1393.980
bogomips        : 3145.72


-- 
Chris

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