mips

[Jamie McColl]

Is there a command I can type which will tell me the number of mips used on a server?

[Andy Monks]

Basically no. Remeber mips stands for 'Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed'.

Your better looking at things like SpecMark results etc which are published. You can get the MHZ from stm.

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

You can also get your processor speed from /var/tombstones/ts** files. Just vi any of the files in that directory and look for the processor speed.

[Jamie McColl]

Does mips not stand for Millions of Instructions Per Second?

[Patrick Wessel]

You are looking for the CPU speed?
There are two ways:
If you like sam, use it -> Performace Monitors -> System Properties

You like a UNIX-commands:
echo itick_per_usec/D | /usr/bin/adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

the itick_per_usec is the CPU frequenz in MHz

[Andy Monks]

Although it does officially stand for Millions of Instructions Per Second, it's a useless piece of information, because it's not how many instructions you can run in a second that's important. It's more important what you do with those instructions.

So, the SpecMark tests and other measure a defined task.

Checkout http://www.specbench.org/

[Jamie McColl]

Im sorry, I didnt quite get the joke there. Just call me Thicky McThickthick.