To compare your machine to ather similar machines and to have a brief
introduction to BogoMips, read the bogomips-HOWTO. It briefly explains all
you want to know about bogomips, but most of all it gives rules to know how
many bogomips your configurations should display. It also provides a big
list of configurations with their respective bogomips rates.
>duncan wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Steve,
>>
>> Just on bogomips for a second.
>>
>> I get about 550 on my AMD K6 266 (64 meg RAM) at home but only 301 on my
>> PII 300 (128Meg) at work and 40 on my Pentium 133 (32meg) NEC laptop should
>> I be concerned ?
>
>Nope, no concern at all. Like I mentioned in the original reply,
>BogoMIPS should only be compared to numbers from the exact same chips.
>You'll find that there's a correlation between the P133 and the PII/300,
>but that the AMD chip is way out of whack with the other numbers.
>That's to be expected.
>
>For reference on the AMD chips, I've got a K6-2/333 here that reports
>670 BogoMIPS. I've been told that AMD chips typically get about
>2x[Processor Speed] BogoMIPS. That looks roughly correct from the
>various chips I've used.
>
>--
>Steve Philp
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>
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