[ale] Laptop too slow

[Geoffrey]

Mark Wright wrote:
> The battery is useless.  It only stays up a few seconds.
> 
> /proc/cpuinfo shows AMD K6 473.459 mhz and 64K of cache.
> 
> It could be running degraded I just don't know how to tell.  I am not  
> used to laptops and their power management circuitry.  I did try to  put 
> it to sleep with the ALT- F key combo that Compaq designated to  put it 
> to sleep with but nothing happened.  There is an icn in the  tray that 
> shows AC power but it won't stay up long enough to switch  to the 
> battery icon if I unplug it.

If it's clocked down to save power, it will report a lower clock speed 
in /proc/cpuinfo, so that appears to not be the case.

How much memory is free after it's booted?

Is it possibly running a find to build the locate database?

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Until later, Geoffrey