[ale] Laptop too slow

[Geoffrey]

Mark Wright wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In my role as computer super hero to my friends in the clutches of  the 
> evil empire I get to wipe failing windows installations a lot.  I  have 
> a friend's comaq laptop with a AMD processor  running a little  over 500 
> mhz and 28 meg of ram.  Win 98 had gotten so twisted it  would boot and 
> hang.  Virus checker was negative but that was just  for fun, the 
> formatter was coming no matter.
> 
> After installing ubuntu 5.10 and adding 128 M of mem the laptop runs  
> but is very slow.  Slower than (or as) a 266 mhz laptop I keep  around.  
> I ran memtest on it first and after the memory install and  the hardware 
> seems OK.  Memtest does report that the AMD processor  has only L1 cache 
> and no L2.  Is this right or is the cpu broke?  Any  other reasons this 
> machine would be slow.  I have read comparisons of  how clock for clock 
> AMD was faster than Intel but this one is very  disappointing.

What does /proc/cpuinfo say it is?  Is it running on AC, sounds like it 
might be running at a lower freq in order to save battery.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey