Mario. wrote: >7 years advance equals to 2160MHz Pentium1, say 1500MHz Pentium3 would suffice. >So, you are oficially not keeping the tempo with advance. Your machine >is still behind the times (even if it does the job ;-) )... > > > > Who needs that speed? EMC ran fine on my servo system with a 100 MHz Pentium classic. The only reason I need 600 MHz now is to support the *#&^$& graphics bells and whistles of the bloated KDE desktop, although it does recompile EMC2 a lot faster. Also, HAL is a lot less efficient than the old direct connection between trajectory and motion of EMC1.
Since I am not using software step generation, the processor is totally loafing. Even with all these inefficiencies, the entire servo calculation takes under 100 us, every ms. So, that is just 10% of the CPU. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
