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From: Greg Boyce <gboyce@rakis.net>
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Subject: Re: Machines misreporting Bogomips 
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> > 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
> >
> >
>
> Could they be running with cache disabled in the bios?
>

The machine is reporting that the cache is enabled.  Even if this was
true, I have trouble believing that turning on the cache would result in a
50,000% increase in speed (4 bogomips compared to 500).

I have a feeling that I'm going to have to chalk this one up to hardware
failure.  Another kind soul suggested it could be ECC memory reporting a
continual string of 1 bit failures.

--
Greg Boyce



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