Re: Celeron doesn't reach proper BogoMIPS

Greg Hookey (twogees@roadrunner.nf.net)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:36:16 +0000


When you say multiproccessing do you mean you SMP enabled?? This could be your problem SMP
support is enabled.....

"B.W. McAdams" wrote:

> Aren't laptops notorious for significant performance decreasements when on
> battery power?
> Could that be the explanation?
>
> On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Wolfram-Peter Stilz wrote:
> Hi Kernel-Mailing-List
>
> I habe a Notebook 'Fujitsu Liteline Celeron 400 DVD' on which
> I can't get the BogoMIPS which a Celeron 400 Processor should have
> according to the BOGOMIPS-HOWTO.
>
> According to the Howto it should get around 400 Bogomips, but (see below)
> it ist getting only around 98. The whole System also seems to be somewhat
> slow; compiling a kernel takes on this machine half an hour.
>
> I'm using Kernel 2.2.12 optimized for PPRO/6x86MX on a Suse 6.1 system,
> but I also tried other Kernel versions and optimisation for Pentium and
> 586.
> mtrr is enabled, multi-processing is disabled.
>
> In the Bios-setup-utility I'm having L1 and L2 cache enabled.
>
> I'm no expert, but I tried around a bit and I'm always getting the same
> results.
>
> Does anybody have an idea what could be the reason for this? What
> settings could be wrong? Is it a hardware-bug? Or how could I find
> out what's wrong?
>
> cheers
> Peter
>
> --------- /proc/cpuinfo ---------
>
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 6
> model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
> stepping : 5
> cpu MHz : 398.711756
> cache size : 128 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr
> bogomips : 97.89
>
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