BogoMips
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BogoMips unit
(From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel.
A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
BogoMips MiniHowto.
(1999-05-06)
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BogoMIPS
bo'go-mips The number of million times a second a processor can do absolutely nothing. The Linux OS measures BogoMIPS at startup in order to calibrate some soft timing loops that will be used later on; details at the BogoMIPS mini-HOWTO (http://www.hobby.nl/~clifton). The name Linus chose, of course, is an ironic comment on the uselessness of all _other_ MIPS figures.
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