I'm not sure that this is a bug, but it's odd.
I installed the 2.2.7 kernel the morning of May 8 and it has been
running nicely on my Pentium laptop. This is a debian potato system.
I haven't touched the kernel since putting it in, but I have
updated some userland packages.
Today I booted and noticed that I didn't get the usual 300.65 bogomips
I'm used to seeing. My syslog entries report four different values
varying by up to 90 points! (I don't have log entries going back
to pre-2.2.7, but I don't remember seeing anything but 300.65 before.)
My BIOS is configured with APM support, but set never to slow the CPU.
Everything seems to work well whatever BogoMIPS count comes up.
The CPU Hz value also varies among several values but not widely
enough to cover the range of BogoMIPS (to my eyes).
Is there any interest in figuring this out or reason to suspect a
real problem? If so I will be glad to provide more data.
(Please cc: me on any responses as I am on digest.)
Cheers & Thanks,
Dave
May 8 06:48:06 Vger kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 300.65 BogoMIPS
May 8 06:48:06 Vger kernel: Detected 150855903 Hz processor.
May 8 06:48:06 Vger kernel: Linux version 2.2.7 (root@Vger) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 Debian GNU/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sat May 8 06:02:41 EDT 1999
May 8 07:06:33 Vger kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 300.65 BogoMIPS
May 8 07:06:33 Vger kernel: Detected 150855903 Hz processor.
May 8 14:54:55 Vger kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 287.54 BogoMIPS
May 8 14:54:55 Vger kernel: Detected 150855903 Hz processor.
May 8 15:00:00 Vger kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 300.65 BogoMIPS
May 8 15:00:00 Vger kernel: Detected 150855903 Hz processor.
May 8 15:13:02 Vger kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 300.65 BogoMIPS
May 8 15:13:02 Vger kernel: Detected 150854504 Hz processor.
May 12 00:48:29 Vger kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 300.65 BogoMIPS
May 12 00:48:29 Vger kernel: Detected 150855506 Hz processor.
May 15 22:49:29 Vger kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 209.72 BogoMIPS
May 15 22:49:29 Vger kernel: Detected 150855405 Hz processor.
May 16 15:00:26 Vger kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 288.36 BogoMIPS
May 16 15:00:26 Vger kernel: Detected 150853805 Hz processor.
/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 4
model name : Pentium MMX
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 150.853805
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips : 288.36
/proc/modules:
serial_cs 3868 0 (unused)
ds 5900 2 [serial_cs]
i82365 23076 2
pcmcia_core 41224 0 [serial_cs ds i82365]
serial 18356 1 (autoclean) [serial_cs]
ver_linux:
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Linux Vger 2.2.7 #1 Sat May 8 06:02:41 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
Kernel modules 2.1.121
Gnu C egcs-2.91.66
Binutils 2.9.1.0.24
Linux C Library 2.1.1
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.1
Procps 2.0.2
Mount 2.9i
Net-tools 2.01
Kbd 0.96
Sh-utils 1.16
Modules Loaded serial_cs ds i82365 pcmcia_core serial
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