> There was a drop in these values during the 80s and early 90s but > they had to increase again when processors started depending > heavily on cache - task switching tends to trash caches. Also as > processors gain more & more registers etc. the number of clocks > required to save & restore process contexts tends to increase. This > balances out the increasing speed of processors to a considerable > extent.
Brian- What if you had a dedicated Prime95 box and you set the timeslice at 1 second or even higher (If that is possible...)? If you killed every other thread and process possible wouldn't this show a dramatic increase in performance? I know it is possible to set it very low... I think a previous box I had could go as low as 5ms and doing that made a serious difference in task-switching responsiveness at a loss of overall performance... I think the default value was 20ms on this box (KT133)... Thanks! Xyzzy [83/114.516/124/8.132/770.18] http://www.teamprimerib.com/ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
