CPU clock is at 100%...

[Bill Davidsen]

Mike Chalmers wrote:
>> What I am saying is that in KDE System Guard, it says that my CPU
>> Clock Frequency is at 100% all the time. I do not know if this is
>> normal behavior or not. Here is a screen shot. Memory is fine, hard
>> drive is fine I think. Thanks.
>>
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
That just means that not speed control application is telling your CPU to run 
slower than full speed, and that's not a cause of slowdown. I don't recall that 
you said what your CPU is, but if 800MHz is full speed, it may not have any 
speedstep or other features.

I'd look elsewhere. If you run "vmstat 10 20 >stat.vm" and examine the output 
file, you may see some indication of the bottleneck. Of course if your computer 
is old and slow, no tuning will make it otherwise. :-(

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