A few thoughts: 1) Load is relative to the # of CPU's (including hyperthreaded). So 2 is not high for a dual-core or a single-core hyperthreaded. 5 is high for that sort of system, but then, not for a hyperthreaded quad-core :) I get the drift that this system is older, but I did not see any reference to the # of cpu's.
2) Good points were made about Firefox and its extensions. Hope that helped! 3) You mentioned Compiz was running. Do you have hardware accelerated 3D? Even if so, IIRC some of compiz functions might tax the CPU quite a bit, and that could be relative to you screen res... multiple screens could also exacerbate this. 4) Is this a DDR, DDR2, etc, system? Stuffing more RAM on a "slow" bus might not help as much as you'd hope... which might point you toward a mobo upgrade. 5) Gkrellm is neat and I'm also one of those freaks who runs it all the time on all the systems, but I always turn its update frequency down from 10/sec to 2 or 3/sec... this seems to help on slow systems! Hope this helps, Ben On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Joseph Weston Morgan <morg...@efn.org>wrote: > Unfortunately not. I would need a new motherboard. > > > > On 01/23/2011 12:22 PM, abr...@peak.org wrote: > > Any chance you could stuff more RAM into it? It looks hungry to me. > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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