Re: Wrong bogomips after plugging in AC power

John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org)
29 Oct 1999 16:22:15 -0500


Dale R Worley <worley@world.std.com> writes:

> It sounds like you aren't rebooting after changing to AC power. My
> recollection is that bogomips are computed once, at boot time, so it
> is not surprising that they don't change even when the CPU speeds up.
>
> Perhaps a patch is needed so APM (or the user) can inform the kernel
> to recompute bogomips, or to recompute them once a minute or so?

The former, surely, would be better. A minute is an *eternity* as far
as the computer is concerned.

>
> Dale
>

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