From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 14:13:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom3-006.telepath.com [216.14.3.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F7F237B43F for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 96713 invoked by uid 100); 28 Aug 2000 21:12:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14762.54705.346152.495600@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:12:17 -0500 (CDT) To: Marc van Woerkom Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. In-Reply-To: <98650097@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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!