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BogoMips (from "bogus" and MIPS) is a crude measurement of CPU speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots to calibrate an internal busy-loop.[1] An often-quoted definition of the term is "the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing".[2][3]
BogoMips is a value that can be used to verify whether the processor in question is in the proper range of similar processors, i.e. BogoMips represents a processor's clock frequency as well as the potentially present CPU cache. It is not usable for performance comparisons among different CPUs.[4]
- ^ Van Dorst, Wim (January 1996). "The Quintessential Linux Benchmark". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ Eric S Raymond, and Geoff Mackenzie, published on the Internet in the early 1990s, untraceable origin.
- ^ Raymond, Eric S. "Hackers Jargon File".
- ^ Van Dorst, Wim (2 March 2006). "BogoMips Mini-Howto" (V38 ed.). Retrieved 2008-08-22.