On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, your Nibs wrote:
>The server I'm sending this from is a 200MHz Pentium MMX system with 80MB
>of RAM. On bootup, the penguin screen says it's crunching out 398.95
>BoboMips.
BoboMips? Actually, I kinda like that. The implication being that one
MegaBoboMips = one million Bobos. Or how about BonoboMips?
>The reason I'm writing, is because my Pentium II 350 with 128MB of RAM at
>home is only clocking out 349.80 Bogomips.
>
>Tell me this isn't normal? Anyone out there familiar with hardware
>configurations that could help me track the bottleneck in my system at
>home? I'd like to think that my 350MHz system at home is working harder
>and faster than a 200MHz pentium.
The bogomips rating is virtually meaningless. Some old AMD 486 class chips had
rating well above most Pentiums, and many P-II's rate higher than some very
expensive Alphas. It's basically a measure of how fast the processor in
question does a particularly trivial loop test. Treat is only as a bragging
rights justification.
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Lee Burnside -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~tljlb/
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
--The Bard
