From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 15:38:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B84B37B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00259; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:38:36 -0700 Message-ID: <39AAE9EC.DFD5E4E@urx.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:38:36 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: Marc van Woerkom , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. References: <14762.54705.346152.495600@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > Marc van Woerkom writes: > > > I refuse to support overclocking, please fix your system and > > > then repost if you continue to have problems. > > A wise decision. > > I was once tempted to overclock a P166 to 180 or somethig MHz. > > There were several weird errors due to overclocking that did never > > show up under W95 but only under FreeBSD at that time. > > What's really wierd is that overclockers seldom go to even as much as > 10% more CPU. For anything but very long-running cpu-bound tasks > that's not enough to be noticeable! That isn't true. You go from a FSB of 66 to 100 and clock for clock that is a 1.5x gain. Kent > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message