Processor speed

[Michael Havens]

I was just hoping I could help it along.

What's this sowsEar != silkPurse thing?

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:54:26 -0700, Darrin Chandler  
<dwchandler at stilyagin.com> wrote:

> 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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