Processor speed

[Darrin Chandler]

Michael Havens wrote:
> I know overclocking the processor is bad but I was thinking that it might  
> be underclocked. How do I see this?
> 
> You know.... I was watching top run and it says that opera use 16ish% and  
> Xorg use 10is% of the processor. Then there are 5ish processes which total  
> less the 10% of the processor
> everything below that says 0.0% of the processor so I don't think  my  
> processor is at fault for it ...... but when I start some applications  
> things are slugish. Perhaps I should overclock the processor since I  
> rarely start those pss and things would start quicker thereby reducing the  
> use of the processor. What do you think about this idea?

sowsEar != silkPurse

You might be able to help speed by moving to an *ultra* lean distro, or 
trimming *every* least bit of fat from the one you have. But it's 
*never* *ever* going to run like a 3GHz dual-core w/ 1G ram.

I had a 486/66 that I used until the hard drive died, but I used pine 
and lynx at console. Nothing I could have done would have made it snappy 
under Gnome. Nothing. Period.

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