Re: problem in BOGOmips

Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer (mchouque@e-steel.com)
09 Feb 2001 16:19:04 -0500


gashish@cse.iitk.ac.in (Ashish Gupta) writes:

> Hi,
> I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for
> different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo
> for different CPUs.

You got your answer. Try pronounce bogomips and you will hear bogo like in
bogus. The Bogomips don't represent anything but a way to have a good delay
mechanism... So you can't compare them between CPUs!

-- 
Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER              E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com
     Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and
               everything else follows in the same way.
                        -- Alan J. Perlis
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/