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BogoMips (from "bogus" and MIPS) is an unscientific measurement of CPU
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speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal
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busy-loop. An often-quoted definition of the term is "the number of
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million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing."
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For further information, see the BogoMips FAQ at
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http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips/
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