From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 7 12:49:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA03058 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:49:47 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA03045 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:49:40 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id VAA09247 ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:48:23 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id VAA07950 ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 21:48:23 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id TAA04551; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:38:40 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199511071838.TAA04551@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: BOGOMIPS .... To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:38:40 +0100 (MET) Cc: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Nov 7, 95 12:20:02 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1306 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Brian Tao said: [ about Bogomips ] > > Is anybody porting this or some similar utility ??? > > If not, I would be interested in doing this. > > Why? Yes, why ? The last thing I want is to see newbies claiming all over the place that their bobomips is bigger than the others and so on. Every Linux doc says that bogomips are just that, "bogus" and that people should not take them in consideration. Even with that -- I know, newbies don't read docs -- we see in the "fr.comp.os.linux" group people talking about them as if they were Words Of Truth from time to time... even though it seems to happen less often now. We don't really need that at all IMO. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #7: Mon Nov 6 21:08:06 MET 1995