Andrew Howell writes: >Bill Mitchell writes: >>Dx -- dunno. Didn't take note when I had it open. I grepped >>/var/log/messages for a bogomips figure, but that's apparently >>no longer part of the startup. As I recall under earlier kernels, >>it was low -- perhaps 6.something. Better than the 386 I used >>to run, which was about 4.3. > >Hmmm you said it was a 40 MHz machine? but you think you get 6 something >bogomips, that sounds strange. My understanding of bogomips for 486s is >that it's half the clockspeed.
My understanding and experience concur with this. 486DX/40 at home gives c. 20 BogoMips. 486DX2/66 at works claims c. 33 BogoMips. ttfn/rjk