[data from a 300MHz Mobile Pentium II] PERFCTR INIT: vendor 0, family 6, model 5 PERFCTR INIT: NITER == 64 PERFCTR INIT: rdpmc ticks == 2035 PERFCTR INIT: rdmsr (counter) ticks == 5290 PERFCTR INIT: rdmsr (evntsel) ticks == 4547 PERFCTR INIT: wrmsr (counter) ticks == 5972 PERFCTR INIT: wrmsr (evntsel) ticks == 5384 PERFCTR INIT: read %cr4 ticks == 213 PERFCTR INIT: write %cr4 ticks == 2763 PERFCTR INIT: loop overhead ticks == 89