On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Stephan Grupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Dell workstation with 2 processors (quad Xeons, total 8 cores, > 4GB of RAM). Empirically, I have found that the "breakeven" point is 5 > instances of Prime 95 - if I go past 5 instances, I lose so much > iteration time on all running instances that my total throughput drops. > If I go to the new version, will it open up 8 instances? I think this > would make my machine less effective in the end. Or does the new version > manage conflicts and memory usage in such a way that my "breakeven" > point might change?
The new version does default to running 8 worker threads running LL. You can change this to 5 worker threads. Or 8 workers with 5 doing LL and 3 doing TF. Or whatever other combination you find most effective. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
