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 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. > -- :~)MIKE(~: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss