Berin Loritsch wrote:
Times where it was failing to respond in a reasonable time coincided with heavy disk access--which includes memory swapping and build times.
hmm. I have an athlon XP 1800, with 512MB DDR333, jdk1.4.1, UDMA133 7200RPM disk, and pretty much tweaked for performance, running almost nothing but the test, and it still fails. I wonder what's wrong :D
Keep in mind that unless you are running SCSI, disk access is not only
controlled by the main processor--it can only go one direction at a time. If you are doing a bunch of bulk writes (which you can't control
from Java--it's an OS thing), you have to wait until those writes are
done before you can read.
Your processor might be able to handle the load 100 times over, but the disk drive has physically moving parts that can only move so fast.
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