If you take the extra memory out, does your time drop to what it was before?
Jeff
Charity wrote:
>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
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>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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