What is a BogoMip?

``BogoMips'' is a contraction of ``Bogus MIPS.'' MIPS stands for
(depending who you listen to) Millions of Instructions per Second, or
Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed.

The number printed at boot time is the result of a kernel timing
calibration, used for very short delay loops by some device drivers.

As a very rough guide, the BogoMips rating for your machine will be
approximately:

386SX clock * 0.14
386DX clock * 0.18
486Cyrix/IBM clock * 0.33
486SX/DX/DX2 clock * 0.50
586 clock * 0.39

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