BogoMips strange behaviour

StoneBeat stonebeat at ya.com
Sun Jun 6 21:12:42 UTC 2004


Hi i have a strange behaviour with kernel 2.6 and BogoMips:

[root at laptop tmp]# dmesg | grep -i bogo
Calibrating delay loop... 2777.08 BogoMIPS

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[root at laptop tmp]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 1400.686
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 991.81

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As you can see if i do "dmesg" my bogomips are 2777.08 but if i do "cat 
/procp/cpuinfo" i only see 991.81.

Some info:
[root at laptop tmp]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)

[root at laptop tmp]# uname -a
Linux laptop 2.6.3-2.1.253custom #1 Sat Mar 20 01:52:05 CET 2004 i686 athlon 
i386 GNU/Linux

[root at laptop tmp]# rpm -qa | grep -i kerne
kernel-doc-2.6.3-2.1.253
kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253
kernel-source-2.6.3-2.1.253









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