How is bogomips computed?

[Chet Nichols III]

Do you happen to have hyperthreading enabled?

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Yong Huang <yong321 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Even though bogomips as shown in /proc/cpuinfo is a rough estimation of CPU
> capability, there must be some truth to it. Is it computed by doing a
> simple
> busy loop to see how many iterations it can go through within some set
> time? I
> can't imagine half of the CPUs on one of our boxes have only half the
> bogomips
> of the others:
>
> $ grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo
> bogomips        : 4018.62
> bogomips        : 2009.31
> bogomips        : 4018.62
> bogomips        : 2009.31
> bogomips        : 4018.62
> bogomips        : 2009.31
> bogomips        : 4018.62
> bogomips        : 2009.31
>
> Yong Huang
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