Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:40:57 +0200 | From | Rolf Fokkens <> | Subject | Re: Compaq 350MHz PII + Linux performance degradation of 500% after a while: normal behaviour? |
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Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> I also saw this on a 450MHz Compaq PII. The problem was that power > management was turned on in the BIOS and was slowing it down to the speed > of a 486 after a few hours of operation. Turn power saving features off in > the BIOS. Yet another reason to avoid proprietary hardware.
You're totally right, the problem has gone now.
Thought the power saving stuff was for laptops, I was wrong.
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