Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:00:35 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jeremy Katz <> | Subject | RE: bogomips ??? |
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Nick. > > > On my Dell Pentium-II 233 MHz, I have 231.<mumble> bogomips. > > So why do I have 358.<blarg> bogomips on my Pentium MMX 180MHz, > > which is most definitely slower (if it was accidentally twice as > > fast, I'd have noticed when compiling the kernel!) ? That > > figure is the same in 2.0.36 and 2.2.2, btw. > > I can't find it at the moment, but I remember reading somewhere that > the BogoMIPS values are NOT comparable between different processor > families, and the P2 is a different family to the P-MMX.
Yep, this is true. Just as a note, for more information on BogoMips (which btw, is Bogus Million Instructions per Second), check the mini-howto at your local LDP mirror.
Jeremy Katz
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