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

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Jhill
I read something somewhere about lowering the virtual memory to do it. Not sure if it will work though.

^^^ disable/turn off virtual memory

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Windows XP should fit the task nicely.

 

[MAME]

XP runs on my mom's 350 Gateway just fine. What are you guys smoking?

 

[NokiaDude]

Set the hard drive to PIO is the best idea. A computer is only as fast as it's hard drive.

 

[johnjbruin]

run seti. set priority to real-time on it... your computer should almost stop responding

 

[Bassyhead]

lower virtual RAM, remove some of the physical RAM, and run a distributed client at a high priority

 

[dman]

Lower Temperature to ~0 Kelvin

 

[orakle]

Originally posted by: dman
Lower Temperature to ~0 Kelvin

don't electronics run better cold?

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Windows XP should fit the task nicely.

Oh the irony.

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: BillGates
Windows XP should fit the task nicely.

Oh the irony.

hey, anything to get a little more business

 

[gunblade]

Originally posted by: dman
Lower Temperature to ~0 Kelvin

no computer will run at that temperature. Super-conductor is still not deterministic yet.

 

[amdskip]

Some form of distributed computing on it with prioriety or whatever set to high.

 

[Frightcrawler]

Turn off L2 cache.