as I under stand it a bogomip is a "bogus" million instructions per second.
not a "true" MIPS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carroll Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] What would be an ideal (but reasonable) LM7.2
desktop platform
> Tea Pot:
> What exactly is a BogoMip? In the 18 months that I've been using Linux
> (RH6, LM 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2), I've also made some mb/CPU changes, going
> from an K6-2 300/FIC VA-503 to an Athlon 800/Abit KT7 with some
> intermediate stops. For each combination, of course, Linux reports a
> different BogoMip rating. To me, it looks like a BogoMip is twice the
> nominal CPU clock speed with a little bit taken out (possibly for sales
> tax and shipping?) -- but I expect that the real definition takes into
> account processor architecture and other factors.
>
> Hmm, an Intel 8088 gets 0.02 BogoMips (20 BogoKips?), and I'm getting
> slightly less than 1600 BogoMips -- 80,000 to 1. Funny, it didn't seem
> that slow at the time.
>
> Regards,
> Carroll
>
> Tea Pot wrote:
> >
> > I would give you my hardware configuration, I bought 3
> > months ago, a reasonable platform for linux server:
> >
> > Abit KT7raid, 2x128 3rd party ram, 30GB ATA100 HD,
> > Leadtek winfast geforce2 mx 4xAGP 32mb, phillips 107s
> > monitor, athlon 900 MH (cost about 1000$ 3 months ago)
> > Not over clocked, it got around 1988 on BogoMips.
> >
> > Intel 8088 4.77 MHz got 0.02 BogoMips
> > AMD K6-2 500 MHz got 999.42 BogoMips
> > 8xPIII xeon 500 MHz got 3996.06 BogoMips
> >
> >>> snip
>
>
