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> While we're on the subject of Compaqs, I just acquired a Deskpro
> 590 used, which I'm hoping to use to replace my 486 Linux firewall
> / mail server. I resolved a PCI bios problem with "pcimove.sys" in
> config.sys, and starting Linux from dos with loadlin. My big
> problem now is the 35 bogomips I'm seeing, which isn't any faster
> than my 486. It looks like the cpu clock is being slowed down.
> Any ideas?
Don't trust bogous mips :)
The speed of a Pentium bares little relation to its bogomips, as seen from
the 2 /proc/cpuinfo's below. Fireleaf is a P90, Thornapple a duel P200.
A Pentium MMX has 2xMhz bogomips, and a P2 has bogomips=Mhz
root@baneberry:~> less /shared/status/fireleaf/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
model name : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 90.001521
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips : 35.84
root@baneberry:~> less /shared/status/fireleaf/thornapple
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
model name : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 199.230518
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic
bogomips : 79.46
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