BogoMIPS (Re: [plug] Bogus Sound Card Problems)

[Matt Kemner]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 bburns at erggroup.com wrote:

> G'day Pluggers,
> 
> First a question:  What is a Bogomip - specifically, how is it calculated and
> what is it meant to represent?  It seemed to jump a whole heap (5 times) after
> installing a later kernel on the same machine.  Is it Bogus?

Yes :)

It is just an internal timing loop, which can fluctuate between different
kernel versions, and will fluctuate between different CPUs.