Re: Bogomips

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.icarus.com)
Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:01:41 +0800

thumpy@cyberdude.com said:
> ok for us uneducated but learning pepole can you explain this
> benchmark what is it what software and what it rates I have never
> heard of this before sorry for asking but I must know being a power
> user who loves to know whats happening I wanna bench my p-266 and my
> p-166

I think your punctuation keys are broken:-)

There is a BogoMips mini-howto entitled ``BogoMips'' that describes in
great detail exactly what a bogomip is and why it exists. Basically, it
is simply a calibration factor for a canonical timing delay loop. If you
have a RedHat setup, look in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips.

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Steve Williams
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