Re: seti crunching speed unlimited...

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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:51

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Using a RAM disk is different to adding RAM. a RAM disk is faster because
there is no reading and writing to the hard drive (a performance increase of
around 2%)

Jonathan
www.setiathome.1colony.com/index.htm

"Dave Shiels" <dshiels@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Once the client has enough, ram the gate for speed is the CPU. There have
been
> some threads around that say if the client is run from a RAM disk it does
speed
> proccessing by about 10%.  I tried this with a linux client instead of the
NFS
> mount he was using and saw no real difference.
>
> Maybe someone else has a different tak on this.
>
> Rizky Wahyudi wrote:
> >
> > Hello fellow cruncher...
> >
> > I'm just wondering, since I've a bunch of free ram, is there ANY way to
feed
> > more ram (default aprox. 15 mb ram) into seti@home client?
> >
> > I would like to give my seti@home client aprox. 128 mb ram instead of 15
mb.
> > Is this possible? if so...please do tell.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > (your fellow seti cruncher...Rizky Wahyudi)

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