Too many processes question.

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com
Thu Jan 25 14:53:52 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:36 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:

> My experience is that these days, computers have plenty of *processor*
> power for most of what they're asked to do. The exceptions tend to be
> the programs which the user is most interested in (compiling, encoding,
> etc. -- stuff which the user explicitly kicks off and watches).
> 
> So a "slow" computer is actually rarely to do with raw processor power.
> It's much more likely to be some combination of the hard disk not using
> DMA, or there being a memory hog on the system that is causing it to
> swap a lot, or there being something running in the background that is
> really accessing the hard drive a lot.

Or how much memory do you have installed?  You almost need 512M at least
nowadays if not a 1G (which is what I use).

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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