Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:02:09 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any ideas about this crash? Message-ID: <199601310802.QAA07718@jhome.DIALix.COM> References: <199601301137.DAA00416@Root.COM> <1918.823029010@time.cdrom.com>
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In freebsd.current Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >> clocks (read: laptops and "green" PCs). The folks in Intel's P6 architecture >> group were shocked when they heard about what we were doing with the internal >> cycle counter..."It was never intended to be used that way!". >So where to from here, a BOGOMIPS rating at startup? :-) I'd agree to a BOGOMIPS rating at bootup, but only if we multiplied the result by 1.5 in order to make a machine's bogomips rating under FreeBSD significantly higher than the same machine under Linux, thus "prove" that FreeBSD is heaps faster... :-) Seriously, bogomips would likely be a pain in the backside if we attempted to make it comparable to Linux, because if Joe User got 81.23 bogomips under Linux and "only" 81.22 under FreeBSD, they'd just _have_ to write in to complain to us how much slower it is. (This is just like the users over here in *.au that phone you to complain that a modem answered the modem call but didn't give them a login: prompt because the machine was down and "wasted" their $0.25 flag-fall local call fee. (Just like they've just blown an extra $0.25 to tell you this)) > Jordan Cheers, -Peter
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