Re: Wrong bogomips after plugging in AC power

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:20:32 -0700 (PDT)

On 29-Oct-99 Dale R Worley wrote:
> 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?

Bogomips calculation is pretty slow and CPU consuming. The basic problem is
that the premise, the CPU always runs at the same rate, is flawed. The
solution is to find some other timebase.

J

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