Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Roeland Th. Jansen) | Subject | Re: Bogomips... (WAS AMD) | Date | 27 Dec 1996 09:04:53 -0000 |
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Charlie Ross <Charles.A.Ross@cc.gettysburg.edu> wrote in <<Pine.SUN.3.95.961222050001.14750a-100000@jupiter.cc.gettysburg.edu>> : > I noticed that 2 AMD-P75 chips were clocking 66 and 75 bogomips... > What is a bogomip? and why does my current REAL pentium 100 only clock 39
a bogomips value is used for internal kernel timing stuff. nothing else.
50 bogomips on an AMD doesn't mean that it's faster than, say 40 bogomips on a P5. it's just nice to know information that doesn't hold any valid information -- unless you have the same hardware as your friend and he's getting 2000 bogomips and you end up with 10. this indicates that your setup wasn't right :-)
> as apposed to 75 from a souped up 486 running at 75mhz... Sure makes me > want to go and get an AMD...
see above. don't see the numbers as benchmark info. it isn't. really. -- Grobbebol's Home (Linux 2.0.x i586)
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