Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 16:17:52 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric Message-ID: <19990904081752.98A431CAA@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 1999 21:52:48 %2B0200." <199909021952.VAA26169@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > Nick Sayer wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > Linux generates a meric of CPU performance as a byproduct of calibrating > > a delay loop. > > It's not a metric of CPU performance. It's just a meaningless > number, and its relation to the actual performance of the > machine is very questionable. My evil streak makes me want to do something like this under boot -v, but with a twist... Figure out a vague partity with the Linux numbers and then make sure it reports about 3 times higher along with something like this: "This cpu rates XXXXX (meaningless) bogomips.." .. where the reported number is significantly higher than linux would report on the same hardware... That would serve two purposes... one to undermine the ``benchmark'' and the other to tease the various clueless folks with. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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