Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

[Jeff Noxon <jeff@router.patch.net>]

With all due respect, I fail to see any value in being able to calculate
BogoMips from the command line.

The uptime command provides accurate system load information in a much
more useful format.  The BogoMips calculation just wastes CPU cycles, which
is certainly not something you would want to do on a heavily loaded system.

The BogoMips calculation was only intended to calibrate delay loops in
the kernel.

Regards,
Jeff

> > fleabag> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep BogoMips
> > BogoMips        : 33.55

> No - the /proc/cpuinfo doesnt get updated as the time goes by.  It only
> get's updated at system boot up and wont update until you reboot again.
> This utility measures the BogoMips at any time by simply typing bogomips - 
> for instance if your computer was doing something heavy then your load would
> be 30 25 20 etc instead of 33.55.
> 
> It effectively runs the exact same thing at boot up time at the command line
> prompt.