On 6/27/2011 2:43 PM, Tom M. wrote: > This is a pretty weird thing. I have a bit of common sense and this just > doesn't seem to make any, common or otherwise. > > I'm using WinXP Pro and exporer is my browser. The scanner is an HP Scanjet > N8460. This is a work computer. I work for the FedGov. I'm hooked to a > network with the server about 100 miles away so the computer, more like the > web, can be somewhat slow. > > Now for example, I scan in 100 pages. It scans very fast, about a page a > second. When it asks and I direct it to process and save these pages, it > goes really quick through about 30 or so pages, slows down then to doing one > page every 20 or 25 seconds, and then when it gets to about the 65th page or > so, it speeds up to not quite the speed it did the first 30 or so but much > quicker then 20 seconds each. > > Now, if I cut the number in half to about 50 pages, it does the same thing > in percentage. Reads 50, processes about 16 or 18, slows again to about 20 > seconds a page and speeds up again at about page 40. > > The funny/weird thing is percentage wise. My IT guy says it is the RAM, > that it process what it can handle quickly and slows because it can't get > anymore into the memory. I could believe that if it didn't do it percentage > wise. I think if that was the problem it would do the same number before it > slowed, not percentage. > > Hope this isn't too confusing. > > Thanks Your IT guy is right. I am not saying that because he said it. I am saying it because that is how RAM works.
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