> Hmm: this is our quake 2 server (join anytime) slum.br.yale.edu
> I was told it was a pentium 166 ...who knows? maybe its severly
> underclocked?
> ..
> Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 66.36 BogoMIPS
That seems exactly consistent with other Pentium 166 systems. See the
BogoMips mini-HOWTO:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/BogoMips
For the BogoMIPS impaired, the following is from the mini-HOWTO:
-- 2. What are BogoMips>From Lars Wirzenius' wirzeniu@kruuna.Helsinki.FI mail of 9 September 1993, explaining Bogomips, with additional detailed information by Alessandro Rubini, rubini@norgana.systemy.it, and by Wim van Dorst:
`MIPS is short for Millions of Instructions Per Second. It is a measure for the computation speed of a program. Like most such measures, it is more often abused than used prop erly (it is very difficult to justly compare MIPS for dif ferent kinds of computers).
BogoMips are Linus's invention. The kernel (or was it a device driver?) needs a timing loop (the time is too short and/or needs to be too exact for a non-busy-loop method of waiting), which must be calibrated to the processor speed of the machine. Hence, the kernel measures at boot time how fast a certain kind of busy loop runs on a computer. "Bogo" comes from "bogus", i.e, something which is a fake. Hence, the BogoMips value gives some indication of the processor speed, but it is way too unscientific to be called anything but BogoMips.
The reasons (there are two) it is printed during bootup is that a) it is slightly useful for debugging and for checking that the computers caches and turbo button work, and b) Linus loves to chuckle when he sees confused people on the news.'
--cheers,
don