Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:11:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:11:15 -0500 Received: from rakis.net ([207.8.143.12]:6558 "EHLO egg.rakis.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:11:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:11:07 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Boyce X-X-Sender: gboyce@egg To: Horst von Brand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Machines misreporting Bogomips In-Reply-To: <200202010959.g119xXH3008047@tigger.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Horst von Brand wrote: > Greg Boyce said: > > [...] > > > Every once in a while we come across single machines which are running a > > lot slower than they should be, and are misreporting their speed in > > bogomips under /proc/cpuinfo. Reinstalling the OS and changing versions > > of the kernel don't appear to affect the machines themselves at all. > > Just misrepresented bogomips or is the machine really slower? Perhaps the > CPU is being underclocked? > -- > Horst von Brand http://counter.li.org # 22616 > The machine is actually slower. That's how I noticed the problem. Underclocking dosen't seem likely due to the difference in speed. It's 4 bogomips instead of 500. The machine is running at about the speed of a 386 (I believe that's about right). It almost seems as if someone turned off the turbo button. But of course I haven't seen one of those since my old 486 :) -- Greg Boyce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/