hehe That's funny! To the original poster: Run "top" to see what's eating the CPU time. You can use the shift-P option to sort vie CPU.
<<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:21:23 -0600 Subject: Re: troubleshooting cpu performance > Edward Dekkers wrote: > > > It's a safety feature not a lot of people know about. > > It's called throttling, which has been around for a while now. > The CPU will effectively cut its power down to 50% first, and will > continue to do so till it reaches a point where it can stay cool > enough, while still being operational (albeit very very slow.) > > This also happens with my brain at work. Whenever I feel my > workload is too high, my brain goes into 0.05 nanosecond of work, > followed by 5 seconds of Slashdot reading, 0.05 nanosecond of work, > 5 seconds of Slashdot, etc., etc., till it cools down enough. > > -- > H| I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. > +------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . 303.442.6410 > x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . > 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . > 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . > Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
