From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 10:17:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A9837B43C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7SHHYF11790; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:17:34 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Marc van Woerkom Cc: scottie@scottsburg.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. Message-ID: <20000828101733.N1209@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <000c01c0109f$22a86680$2b01a8c0@tool> <20000828041527.D1209@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000828171049.5F32D19A0@nil.science-factory.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000828171049.5F32D19A0@nil.science-factory.com>; from marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:10:49PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Marc van Woerkom [000828 10:15] wrote: > > 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. > > If time is of some value to you, rather buy a faster CPU than > wasting your time with an unstable overclocked system. The person reported back to me that the problem went away when he stopped the overclocking the NIC didn't like running at a weird bus speed. I think I want Tom's (of tomshardware.com) head on a stick. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message