Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index BogoMips (from "bogus" and MIPS) are an unscientific measurement of CPU speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop. From FOLDOC, used by permission. External links: BogoMips MiniHowto. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.