On Nov 6, 3:56 pm, "Michael Bacarella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This information is hardware dependent and probably unreliable. > > > > Why not run a benchmark and report the results instead? > > > Like bogomips? <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomips> > > > That's an interesting idea, but this is in a login script, so I can't > > exactly run benchmarks while logging in as the users will get > > impatient quite quickly. They already think the scripts take too long > > as it is. > > Bogomips can be easily calculated in 10ms. The Linux kernel calculates it > during > system boot. There's an ANSI C utility floating around that you could > distribute. > Just a thought... > > > While this information may be unreliable, it is desired by my boss for > > the express purpose of budgeting upgrades in our organization. > > The information that gets displayed in the System Properties / General tab > is, > I believe, a string copied out of the CPU. I've had systems where it used > to simply say "Pentium" in that box as well. That's why it strikes me as > unreliable. > > Executing the CPUID instruction may be helpful if you can figure out how > these guys are using it: > http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Good point. I'm not sure where to start, but I may give it a whack tomorrow if things stay quiet. Thanks, Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
