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model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
cpu MHz : 598.198
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Seems, the problem is solved ;-)
600 MHz aren't 1600... And because SuSE 9.3 is a resource hog, the approx 3 times slower CPU speed results in 4 times slower Seti.

If you want the CPU to go full speed at all times, you'll have to disable the "Throttle CPU" option in ACPI. I don't know how it's done in SuSE apart from disabling ACPI altogether in the kernel-boot-line "vmlinuz [...] acpi=off"

By the way, I would leave the settings like they are. By this the power consumption of your CPU should be very low, so (if its a notebook) the temperature of the system will stay so low, you'll be able to keep working with it on your knees.

As i can see itfrom your stats your machine is a pentium M. My guess is that the kernel is throttleing you cpu (acpi enabled? modules loaded ?).

what´s the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" ?
it should show you the current speed you cpu runs on.

regards
Crunch3r

I am using the precompiled version.
I'm afraid I have no idea what overclocking means in this context.
Is there a configuration setting I can tune or something of that sort?

Thanks,
Jean

if the CPU is overclocked, you could be getting unpredictable results. what are the exact client error messages you are getting?