[lug] /proc/cpuinfo

Timothy Klein teece at silverklein.net
Sat Mar 10 08:57:11 MST 2001


It is usually seems to be twice your CPU MHz if you have a CPU that does
2 integer instructions per clock cycle.  Which is my Athlon, at least.
Pentium II/III, too I think.

Tim

* Hugh Brown (hugh at vecna.com) wrote:
> What is the significance of the bogomips section of /proc/cpuinfo?
> 
> I ask because on some machines that I have, it's double the cpu MhZ and
> on others it is the same as the cpu MhZ (same model cpu's as well).
> 
> Any insight?
> 
> Hugh
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