Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I have an HP Pavilion 6360 with Linux Debian. I also have a Thinkpad > that a friend gave me recently which runs Linux Debian, as well. > > Here's the thing. > > The TP, under cpuinfo, has: > > model name: Mobile Pentium II > cpu MHz: 365.033 > stepping: 10 > cache size: 256 KB > > ram: 64 MB > > The HP, under cpuinfo, has: > > model name: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor > cpu MHz: 367.497 > stepping: 0 > cache size: 64 KB > > ram: 256 MB > > The HP runs MUCH slower than the TP. Why is that? Is that supposed to > happen? Is it because of the step and the cache size? Is it the ram > difference? Although I'm beginning to understand that more RAM doesn't mean > faster computer, I would think that since both speeds are close > (irregardless of cache size) that they would be about the same speed. How do > I check what the CURRENT speed of the processor is? Maybe it's running at a > lower > speed than what's indicated? Should I overclock the HP? Thanks. > > TW > >
Which are the specs of the HP one firts of all? You can install cpufrequtils and check with `cpufreq-utils' which is the speed and if is running under a different governor that performance (which I doubt since is a very old machine). Linux doesn't modify the clock speed at least that this option is enabled by ACPI and I don't know how is that in older pcs... Regards, Jose Luis. -- ghostbar on Linux/Debian 'sid' x86_64-SMP - #382503 Weblog: http://ghostbar.ath.cx/ - http://linuxtachira.org http://debian.org.ve - irc.debian.org #debian-ve #debian-devel-es San Cristóbal, Venezuela. http://chaslug.org.ve Fingerprint = 3E7D 4267 AFD5 2407 2A37 20AC 38A0 AD5B CACA B118
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