What will really slow a workstation or server down is running short of RAM. These days the working sets are getting appreciable as the exponents increase. NT scheduling will wake up the service version of ntprime every second I think and give it at least one quantum. If some more essential service or application needs nearly all available RAM for its working set, and the working set of ntprime is big enough it gets paged out, the disk thrashes wildly and performance can suffer greatly for both the ntprime service and the other service or application, even while the ntprime service only gets a percent or two of cpu time.
This is not just a characteristic of NT, but a general property of virtual memory operating systems; eventually it's just too little ram or too much demand, leading to performance decline. Ken At 05:05 PM 10/29/2001 -0800, Aaron Blosser wrote: >Still the only time I've ever seen Prime95/NTPrime slow down a system is when I was doing some Netmeeting video conferences. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
