Re: To Bogomips or not to Bogomips

Fredrik Lundholm (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Thu, 21 May 1998 17:51:44 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 21 May 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > > Please keep it. If someone wants to know MHz, get that userland
> > > utility. But keep bogomips in kernel.
> >
> > Bogomips will still be reported every time at kernel boot time. If
> > anybody wants to check it, just do "dmesg".
>
> No. dmesg overflows. It does on my machine pretty fast, it does on
> production servers. You may not rely on dmesg.
>
> Pavel

Klogd? :)

Actually, it causes just as much confusion (perhaps more) then it being in
/proc/cpuinfo..

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