i use acad all day (some days) it never trashes and it is very stable so i am not sure why you are seeing this my comments apply to R14 through Acad 2002
i don't use SCSI drives though, i think it might be that i used to use SCSI because i bought the lore, but once IDEs got bigger and cheaper i gave up the SCSI thing and never looked back it the DOS days doing a regen in acad was time for a coffee break but since the 300Mhz + machines it doesn't make a huge difference whether the box is 800MHz or 2GHz i have never messed with my swap file settings but i do have 1G ram on most boxes and i think that that is worthwhile BTW the USB2 external 7200 RPM drives are really great - i have no hard data but they actually seem (feel) faster than the internal ATA 7200 RPM drives Dennis Saputelli Bagotronix Tech Support wrote: > > > However, it is typical for architectural, topographical, and rendering > > uses that Autocad or most other real CAD programs will take a large > > amount of space, enough in fact to make most people's systems > > semipermanently go to swap, (ie, during a session) similar to what > > happens to folks who get into Photoshop without realizing that a > > pro-level file can grow to several hunded meg in a blink, causing their > > insufficient hard memory to dissapear just as fast. > > Well, there is still an upper limit on the dataset size, at least there is > with the current generation of 32-bit OS. IIRC, the swap file is supposed > to be about 2X the size of physical RAM. So if you have 1GB RAM, then you > need a 2GB swap file. Which, I believe, is the limit on file size on > Windows, isn't it? Or is it 4GB? So what the hell is AutoCad going to do > when it runs out of both? Crash, going down in flames? I'm not an AutoCad > user, so I'm guessing. The thing I have never understood about AutoCad is > why it's always writing stuff to disk. My stepmother's AutoCad system has > 1GB of RAM, and yet the thing is constantly thrasing the disk even for > medium size drawings. Theoretically, there ought to be a RAM size so huge > that swapping never occurs. My father has asked me before if it's possible > to design a RAM-based swap drive, instead of letting stuff swap to a disk. > I said "Yes, if you've got lots of money". > > Oh well, it's not my battle anyway. Still computing along happily on 512MB > RAM and 1GHz dual-PIII. It's funny, people expect me to have the latest > cutting edge computers because I am in the tech field. They don't > understand how I can do my job with anything less. They are shocked to > learn that my newest desktop is 3 years old and I don't want to buy a new > PC! Thank goodness I don't have to use AutoCad ;-) > > Best regards, > Ivan Baggett > Bagotronix Inc. > website: www.bagotronix.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 9:02 AM -- _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
