On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Karsten Johansson wrote:
"Yates, Larry" wrote:
Maybe bogomips are BOGUS!
Heheh, you know when Linux boots, and it primes the random number generator? Maybe *that's* a bogomip, too. :)
I'm gonna do a bit of research to see what is actually counted in a bogomip. There seem to be extreme variations from one machine to another.
It's quite simple, really. Calculating MIPS, millions of instructions per second, is a way of determining CPU speed. It isn't a very good one -- not for comparing processors anyway -- and the way that the kernel determines it isn't very good either. Hence, it is a measurement of "Bogo"-MIPS. There are extreme variations, but the algorithm isn't changing. Therefore, a Pentium 100 which runs at 2 BogoMIPS is bad. ------------------------------------------------ Ewan Dunbar northsky@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------------------------ Visit Preston Manning: Action Hero at <A HREF="http://earl.thedunbars.com/pmah/index.html"><A HREF="http://earl.thedunbars.com/pmah/index.html</A">http://earl.thedunbars.com/pmah/index.html</A</A>> ------------------------------------------------ -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>