[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu on Pentium Dual Core

[H P Nadig]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 01:42 +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
> I have a laptop based on Intel Centrino Duo processor. I have never
> observed any anomaly. The CPU usage is 50% even when I am compiling
> something (except when I use `make -j 3` of course).
> May be because I compile my own kernels and never use the stock kernels
> shipped by Ubuntu? That may be the reason.
> In any case, I think you should file a bug on this.

Using a amd-64 version worked and solved the issue. And yes, recompiling
kernel to the needs would optimize it further, as G0SUB suggested. 

cheers, 

   - h.p.