Re: AMD-K6 Bogomips problem solved (sort of)
Quoting pat@patoche.org (pat@patoche.org):
> Thanks all for your input.
>
> The problem is solved in a way.
>
> Before mucking with hardware i tried few software things.
>
> With 2.0.36 compiled as 686 and as 586 i had only 350Bogomips with a 350MHz
> K6-2
>
> BUT (!) with 2.2.0pre7 compiled with CONFIG_M586TSC=y i have my full 700
> bogomips !
> with it /proc/cpuinfo shows everything right (CPU clock,etc...)
>
> That's strange isn't it ? Probably a strange compilation quirk somewhere....
>
> I'll stick with 2.0.36 for now (as 350Bogomips should be enough to serve only
> few web pages), but i will wait anxiously to 2.2.0 final
>
> Patrick
>
>
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i've not messed around with BogoMIPS really, but i do have one question. your
BogoMIPS count went up dramatically, but did it really feel like you had a
performance increase? if so, why switch back? if not, why care about them
unless it was just idle curiosity?
-James Pollard
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