The LONG ANSWER:
>From the LINUX FAQ:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/linux-faq/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/linux-faq/section8.html#q_8_5
Question 8.5. What is a BogoMip ?
`BogoMips' is a contraction of `Bogus MIPS'. MIPS stands for (depending
who you listen to) Millions of Instructions per Second, or Meaningless
Indication of Processor Speed.
The number printed at boot-time is the result of a kernel timing
calibration, used for very short delay loops by some device drivers.
As a very rough guide the BogoMips will be approximately:
386SX clock * 0.14
386DX clock * 0.18
486Cyrix/IBM clock * 0.33
486SX/DX/DX2 clock * 0.50
586 clock * 0.39
If the number you're seeing is wildly lower than this you may have the
Turbo button or CPU speed set incorrectly, or have some kind of caching
problem [as described in Q6.5 `When I add more memory it slows to a
crawl.'.]
For values people have seen with other, rarer, chips, see the BogoMips
Mini-HOWTO, on sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/docs/howto/mini/BogoMips.
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