Re: Weird syslog stuff on UDB

[Brendan Miller <brmiller xenon kudzu gammalink com>]

> > I thought I got 164.53 BogoMIPS.  Moreover, when MILO is doing its
> > bootstrap thing before it unzips the kernel on my hard disk and begins
> > executing it, it reports 164.53 BogoMIPS also.  Why only 162.53 on my 
> > self-compiled version (to get sound support)?
> 
> Is this a joke, or what?  Go and reread BogoMIPS-HOWTO before posting
> such stuff to the world.  Even if you would get a half of the original
> number (because of a different layout of an empty loop to measure in
> memory, for example) it would be normal.  Did you noticed "Bogo" in
> the name?  Sheesh...

Come on--go easy on me.  This is a rather unfriendly response.  I'm not 
expecting this number to have intrinsic meaning, and I *HAVE* read the
BogoMIPS HOWTO (several times, in fact).  From what I understand of the 
BogoMIPS calculation, thought it should not fluctuate that much--that is,
it is a fairly consistent timing calculation that should be repeatable.

My question was more of an academic one--why would I get different values
with different compiles of the same kernel?  I guess I should have prefaced
that my question was academic--I know there are people for whom the BogoMIP
topic is sensitive.

Sheesh yourself!

Brendan