Re: Wrong BogoMIPS on alpha

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:59:42 -0700


On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:13:18AM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote:
> Recently the bogomips measurement has gone all haywire. Every once in a
> while when I boot up the bogomips measurement will be absurly high (i.e.
> 5 Terahertz), with obvious associated problems.
[...]
> The system is:
> Alpha LX164 (21164 chip) at 600MHz

Your clock chip has gone bad. This happens regularly
with the shitty chip they put in LX and SX systems.

r~
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