On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:07:53PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > As if I don't know what the bogo stands for, ha! I brought that up > because someone suggested testing CPU speed using some sort of idle loop. > That's exactly what bogomips does.
Just for reference (I'm sure you know, but others might not): BogoMIPS are measured using a busy loop because that's precisely the number the kernel is interested in -- it's used to know for how long to loop when doing small delays in the kernel (say, "sleep 20 microseconds"), which is done using a busy loop. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
