Is there a way to create artificially slowness in a computer?

[dvdrdiscs]

Say I want to make a computer seem like it's lagging. Is there a way to do it?

 

[iwearnosox]

underclock the fsb.

 

[gopunk]

run an infinite loop

 

[Omegachi]

make a statement that after ever operation it goes through it and pretty much just run in circles for a while.....

 

[Savij]

run seti, set priority to realtime. make sure that you don't have seti to restart when the computer boots up

 

[rudeguy]

put AOL on it

 

[dvdrdiscs]

Whatever it is, it has to be unnoticeable so I can't run any particular program to do it. I'm thinking of maybe a setting somewhere. And this is a laptop so I can't underclock the FSB. Plus that would be obvious since the speed of the computer would show up as slower than what it's supposed to be.

 

[gopunk]

make the pagefile really small

 

[AFB]

Is this a prank?

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
put AOL on it

We have a winnar.

 

Use the fork() function in a loop.
It will bring any computer to its knees.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Run proth.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: pillage2001

Originally posted by: rudeguy
put AOL on it

We have a winnar.

LOL

 

[boyRacer]

disable the cache... hahaha... you'll wait half an hour just for it to boot...

 

[emmpee]

MoSlo

 

[shekondar]

Install Windows...

 

[Corporate Thug]

make the cpu 100%, throw in a few viruses

 

[Ketteringo]

S@H on high priority

 

[Spamela]

Originally posted by: shekondar
Install Windows...

 

[BillGates]

Windows XP should fit the task nicely.

 

[JoeKing]

the thread title makes my brain hurt.

 

[Jhill]

I read something somewhere about lowering the virtual memory to do it. Not sure if it will work though.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Pull out some of the RAM.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: dvdrdiscs
Whatever it is, it has to be unnoticeable so I can't run any particular program to do it. I'm thinking of maybe a setting somewhere. And this is a laptop so I can't underclock the FSB. Plus that would be obvious since the speed of the computer would show up as slower than what it's supposed to be.

When's the last time you paid any attention to your post speed?

 

[Howard]

Disable L2/L2 cache, disable virtual memory, set hard drive mode to PIO, etc.