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MHZ(8)                              LMBENCH                             MHZ(8)

NAME
       mhz - calulate processor clock rate

SYNOPSIS
       mhz [-c]

DESCRIPTION
       mhz calculates the processor clock rate and megahertz.  It uses an
       unrolled, interlocked loop of adds or shifts.  So far, superscalarness
       has been defeated on the tested processors (SuperSPARC, RIOS, Alpha).

OUTPUT
       Output format is either just the clock rate as a float (-c) or more
       verbose

       39.80 Mhz, 25 nanosec clock

       mhz is described more completely in ``mhz: Anatomy of a
       microbenchmark'' in Proceedings of 1998 USENIX Annual Technical
       Conference , June 1998.

SEE ALSO
       lmbench(8).

AUTHOR
       Carl Staelin and Larry McVoy

       Comments, suggestions, and bug reports are always welcome.

(c)1994-2000 Carl Staelin and Larry McVoy
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