BogoMips mini-Howto
v0, 8 February 1999
This text gives some information about BogoMips, compiled
from various sources such as news and e-mail. This text is retrievable from the various Linux archives in
.../HOWTO/mini/BogoMips.
Translations are available IMHO in Japanese, Italian, German, Polish, and Portuguese from appropriate archives.
An explanatory article, titled 'the Quintessential Linux Benchmark,' was published in the Linux Journal, issue January 1996.
New mini-Howto entries for unlisted CPUs will be highly appreciated. They can
be send per e-mail to the author.
- 9.1 Oddly or faultly configured 386 systems
- 9.2 Normal 386 systems: SX, DX, Nexgen
- 9.3 Oddly or faultly configured 486 systems
- 9.4 Normal 486 systems
- 9.5 Normal 486 variations: Cyrix/IBM, UMC
- 9.6 Oddly or faultly configured Pentium systems, or variations
- 9.7 Normal Pentium systems
- 9.8 Normal Pentium variations: MMX, Pro, II, Cyrix, AMD
- 9.9 Normal Alpha systems
- 9.10 Normal Motorola systems
- 9.11 Other Systems: Sparc, PowerPC, Mips, Intel 8088/286 ELKS
- 9.12 Normal Multi CPU systems
- 9.13 Non-Linux systems (reference only)