bogomips(1)

bogomips1

Bogomips benchmark program

Usage

bogomips

Overview

Bogomips is a standalone version of the benchmark program run by the Linux kernel at boot time.

Options

No options are currently supported.

Examples

bogomips

Portability

Bogomips should compile on any ANSI C conforming system.

Bugs/limitations

The "Bogo" in BogoMIPs stands for bogus. See the BOGOMips Mini-HOWTO document for more information on interpreting the results of the program. See also the "New Hacker's Dictionary" (sometimes known as the "Jargon File") for a definition of bogosity and bogon particle physics.

Releases

Unchanged in 8 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz).

  1. 1.1–3.1

Author

Bogomips was written by Jeff Tranter ([email protected]) based on code from the Linux kernel, by Linus Torvalds. Additional changes suggested by Thomas McWilliams and Paul Healy.

From sysutils 1.3.8.5.1 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.