Re: Machines misreporting Bogomips

From: Horst von Brand (brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 04:59:32 EST


Greg Boyce <gboyce@rakis.net> said:

[...]

> Every once in a while we come across single machines which are running a
> lot slower than they should be, and are misreporting their speed in
> bogomips under /proc/cpuinfo. Reinstalling the OS and changing versions
> of the kernel don't appear to affect the machines themselves at all.

Just misrepresented bogomips or is the machine really slower? Perhaps the
CPU is being underclocked?

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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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