Hello All,
One thing Shane did not mention was the AR of the old vs new sampling.
The post more ram WUs could have been LARs whereas the pre could have
been mostly normal.
I also wonder if the BIOS was updated? Did Shane remove the new and
retest with same AR WU?
Charity
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>
> This is rather strange. I assume you started out with two 64MB RIMMs and
> put in another two to make 256, and while adding RIMMs to a Rambus channel
> will slow the speed a little bit (because the round trip from the chipset
> through the RAM chips and back is longer since it has to go through more
> RAM chips), you should not see a doubling of processing time. Did you make
> any configuration changes? And did you readjust the size of your
> paging/swap file to accommodate the RAM increase? Generally your swap file
> size should be about 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM you have, or
> 384MB in your case, but even if you didn't change the swap file size, I
> don't see how such a big completion time increase could have occurred. If
> you can provide any other details about your system, especially anything
> that might have changed when you added the new RAM, that might help us
> figure out what the problem is.
>
> Shane Blundell writes:
>
> >
> > Okay, I've been crunchin' out WU's for a couple years now. I recently
> > upped my RAM from 128 to 256. With the former I had my computer spitting
> > out WU's after a little over 12-13 hours, that was with it running all the
> > time. It now takes more than a day, sometimes almost two with my extra RAM
> > in there now. I didn't expect a huge decrease in the time it takes to
> > process, but such a huge increase? I even have it turned off when I am
> > using the computer and have it running as the screen saver but that has
> > seemed to have no effect. I bought the RAM straight from the computer
> > manufacturer (DELL). This computer (Dimension 8100) has the capacity for
> > 512MB, so I know thats not the problem. Thanks.
> >
==
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