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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)

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)

Rizky,

Provided the swap file is not being used, the system has provided S@H with
all the RAM it requires.
The bottleneck after that is memory bandwidth. Other tasks and hardware that
use main memory need to be minimised.
For example, if your video RAM shares main memory, (down market socket 7 and
celeron motherboards) fitting a real graphics card will give you a real
speed boost.

Regards,

Roy Bamford
--
There are two classes of computer users,
those who do backups and
those who have never had a hard drive fail.
Anon.

"Rizky Wahyudi" <rizky@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
news:3b1d2e10$0$29539@reader5...
> 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)
>
>

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)