On 09-Aug-99 Kenneth Efurd wrote:
> What exactly does that mean the BogoMIPS, mine says 666.95? whats that all
> about?
This is from the Linux User Guide:
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A "MIP" stands for a million instructions per second, and a "BogoMIP" is a
"bogus MIP": how many times the computer can do absolutely nothing in one
second. (Since this loop doesn't actually do anything, the number is not
actually a measure of how fast the system is.) Linux uses this number when it
needs to wait for a hardware device.
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Hope that helps.
-Tom
