From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 11 16:21:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F48150D4; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA38839; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:21:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:21:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Chris Costello Cc: Laurence Berland , Robert Sexton , nsayer@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric In-Reply-To: <19991010195854.C15135@holly.calldei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: > > I like the idea as an optional LINT parameter that is NOT in the generic > > kernel. Might make some linux people feel comfortable with the switch, > > or might prove useful under some odd circumstances, but I agree it'd be > > silly to include it by default (kindof on the level of a splash screen) > > I disagree. BogoMIPS is a completely meaningless measurement > and does not belong in our source tree as it will only produce > repository bloat. > Right. If you're worried that there's something wrong with your CPU speed, you can always bootverbose and check out the clocks and bzero tests. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message