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Re: Bogomips

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I read bogomips mini-Howto, and it says that although bogomips can vary
> from one kernel to another, this variation should NOT be too big. On my
> P75 kernels 2.0.39, 2.2.13 show about 30 bogomips; 2.2.17, 2.2.18, 2.4.0 -
> 150...??? According to that Howto 30 is more realistic...
> 
> Thanks
> Guennadi
> ___

The way BogoMips were calculated changed (I don't remember why). This is
why they are called BOGOmips :)

It's not something you should concern yourself with :)

john

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