Bogomips? What's a bogomip?

MighMoS · Guru Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 416 Location: @ ~

From time to time in linux, I run the word 'bogomips'...for example, in my login screen, I have 2760.70 Bogomips...good? Bad? Doesn't matter? Related to MIPS? Just a funny word with random numbers?

confusion!

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips.html
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ewan.paton · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:

im probably not the best person to explain as ill just be paroting what ive read but basicly the kernel runs a test loop and this is given a value determined upon the speed it takes. effectivly its a measure of how fast a kernel & cpu can crunch numbers, it i better measure than megahertz as diferent cpus process stuff at diferent rates eg a amd64 will wipe the floor with a p4 of the same clock.
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MighMoS · Guru Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 416 Location: @ ~

Ah, thankyou very much. Now I understand :lol: