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To: Greg Boyce <gboyce@rakis.net>
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Subject: Re: Machines misreporting Bogomips 
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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:59:32 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Greg Boyce <gboyce@rakis.net> said:

[...]

> Every once in a while we come across single machines which are running a
> lot slower than they should be, and are misreporting their speed in
> bogomips under /proc/cpuinfo.  Reinstalling the OS and changing versions
> of the kernel don't appear to affect the machines themselves at all.

Just misrepresented bogomips or is the machine really slower? Perhaps the
CPU is being underclocked?
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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616