Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[super-suser@xxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 02:17:06 +0200, Robert Alexander Stragies wrote:

> hi all
> 
> Upon bootup in the first few lines one sees a message "Calibrating delay
loop.... X Bogomips, where X corresponds to the speed of my pII 266 , but on
my old 486 , (yes, the one i had such great problems with), the number is
16.something where the cpu is a 486 dx33 .. is my 486 slower than it could
be ?
> 
> Could somebody please shed some light on this for me

Some guys from Atipa and I were getting into this the other day.  Have a
look at the BogoMIPS Mini HOWTO:

  http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips.html


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