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swoll1980
February 28th, 2009, 11:52 PM
I was surprised

SunnyRabbiera
February 28th, 2009, 11:56 PM
Yeh though system load might not be so nice.

brokenLockpick
February 28th, 2009, 11:56 PM
lol now try opening some big file in Gimp and add a dozen layers, that was the first time I noticed a slow down

swoll1980
February 28th, 2009, 11:59 PM
Yeh though system load might not be so nice.

The load is on the conky, I don't know what it means though

SunnyRabbiera
March 1st, 2009, 12:01 AM
The load is on the conky, I don't know what it means though

Well it looks fine at a glance, but I guess it depends on your processor.

swoll1980
March 1st, 2009, 12:03 AM
Well it looks fine at a glance, but I guess it depends on your processor.

It's a p4 2.66 northwood 512 533

OutOfReach
March 1st, 2009, 12:03 AM
Those are freshly opened. If you actually worked on all of them, the memory would definitely increase and performance would decrease.

amauk
March 1st, 2009, 12:05 AM
The load is on the conky, I don't know what it means though
System load is a measure of how idle, or bogged down a machine is

under 1 means the system is not working at full capacity (CPU is idling) - you can do more stuff and not affect performance

1 means the system is at full working capacity

above 1 means the system is working over it's capacity, and some actions will be delayed / have reduced performance due to the high load

the 3 sets of load numbers indicate the load at 3 separate intervals
1 min ago, 5 mins ago & 15 mins ago

swoll1980
March 1st, 2009, 12:08 AM
System load is a measure of how idle, or bogged down a machine is

under 1 means the system is not working at full capacity (CPU is idling) - you can do more stuff and not affect performance

1 means the system is at full working capacity

above 1 means the system is working over it's capacity, and some actions will be delayed / have reduced performance due to the high load

the 3 sets of load numbers indicate the load at 3 separate intervals
1 min ago, 5 mins ago & 15 mins ago

Thanks for explaining that.

SunnyRabbiera
March 1st, 2009, 12:10 AM
It's a p4 2.66 northwood 512 533

Same as mine

swoll1980
March 1st, 2009, 12:15 AM
Same as mine

It's a good processor. It runs Ubuntu/Xp faster than my daughters 2.4 core2
duo runs Vista