[Techtalk] more cores, more slows

[Carla Schroder]

Web pages are definitely the worst offenders, but I expected better performance 
for audio recording and video transcoding as well. My little ole Thinkpad with 
a budget dual-core Intel Core Duo rips through audio and video files measurably 
faster. And I expected that with multiple cores an errant Web page would not 
bog down the whole system, but often it does. Though don't even get me started 
on Firefox. The most meh Web browser millions of dollars can build :) So I was 
thinking it might be worth trying an Intel processor and board, but then I 
looked at prices and remembered why I stick with AMD.

I'll go ahead and do some performance troubleshooting as wise Chixxors 
suggested. Maybe there is some system tuning I can do. Maybe I'll just give up 
computing, go live in a yurt, and make goat cheese.

best,
Carla


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Carla Schroder
ace Linux nerd
author of Linux Cookbook,
Linux Networking Cookbook,
Book of Audacity
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