This does work well - and I used to run a similar system for some reason
under Windows 3.1 - but I cannot remember why. The overhead from the GUI
and so forth can be considerable - try turning on the performance
monitor and moving the mouse rapidly. This can eat up 10-15% of the cpu
time just recalcing anf then redrawing the mouse pointer - it gets worse
if you haev one of the fancy animated cursors loaded. For a system that
will do nothing else it cannot hurt and may even make the system more
stable.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Foghorn Leghorn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 2:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mersenne: Idea for running Prime95
>
>
> This method eliminates the slim share of CPU time being consumed by
> the usual GUI shell and other Windows processes. For a system that
> must frequently be used for other work, it is not useful. But for
> systems that sit unattended for days at a time doing absolutely
> nothing but Prime95 (or some other computational program), this
> method lets you squeeze out a little extra performance.
>
> Any comments? Does anyone else have experience doing this?
>
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