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BogoMips mini-Howto

Wim van Dorst, baron@clifton.hobby.nl

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.

1. Lowest and highest BogoMips ratings

2. What are BogoMips

3. How to estimate what the proper BogoMips rating should be

4. How to determine what the current BogoMips rating is

5. Variations in BogoMips rating

6. BogoMips ... failed

7. What about clone CPUs (Cyrix, NexGen, AMD, etc)

8. Why to pay attention to BogoMips

9. Compilation of ratings

10. Signature


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