On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 05:41:02PM -0800, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >1) Increasing my RAM from 32 --> 64 will help GIMPS ??
>
> It will probably help everything else, and prevent gimps from triggering
> excess swapping. GIMPS only uses about 4MB 'working set' but if your machine
> doesn't have enough memory for whatever ELSE you are using the computer for,
> GIMPS will cause a lot of swapping.
This is rather odd, and likely specific to my situation. When I'm running the
Linux binary on my Linux machine, this is what top says:
2181 bryanf 20 19 4092 4092 428 R N 0 49.2 8.6 3559m mprime
So yep, that's ~4Mb of memory (and only 1/2 the cpu - I'm running rc5 too ;).
On my FreeBSD 3.0-R box, running the same binary in Linux compatability mode,
this is what top says:
1088 bryanf 105 20 17996K 1260K RUN 119:09 30.82% 30.82% mprime
17Mb of memory used (though only 1.2Mb resident). Strange, neh? In this
case, I'm glad I've got 64Mb of memory, especially since X is using 12Mb.
Bryan
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