From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 15:50:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA04015C32; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA01325; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:47:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA09551; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:38:01 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id QAA03873; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:47:04 -0600 Message-ID: <37CEFE68.E736708B@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:47:04 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Julian Elischer , nsayer@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > There was such a thing in 386BSD and FreeBSD1.0 > > > > I certainly thing it was a worth-while thing. > > I'd try make the loop as similar to the Linux one so that they are > > comparable. > > My vote is to make the number printed in parity with the number printed by > a Netware server. I think we should just hack SPECint and SPECfp into the system startup and be done with it. That'll make us look professional! For those who don't want to add 10 or 15 minutes to their system we'll add an rc.conf knob to turn it off. This has got to be the dumbest discussion I've ever seen on -hackers. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message