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title: Channeling Scotty link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/channeling-scotty/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 326 created: 2009/05/05 07:01:41 created_gmt: 2009/05/05 07:01:41 comment_status: open post_name: channeling-scotty status: publish post_type: post
Channeling Scotty
All I could thing was,
“Cap’n, she canna take no more: she’s gonna blow!”
It’s not that I’ve never seen high CPU utilization before. Really.
But 164 percent? That’s pretty rare. Here’s the screenshot to prove it:
The app in use was Gnome’s soundconverter. The task was converting 3 m4a files to mp3 format so I can play them on the old Palm Zire.
Maybe it’s time to start looking for a reasonably priced quad-core machine that will take 8 Gb RAM.
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