Brian J Beesley wrote:
>
> On Win 9x and NT, you seem to get the best performance by
> loading the system right up so that the memory is exhausted, then
> starting Prime95, then stopping the unneccessary tasks. I think
> this forces the system to load the important bits of Prime95 into
> contiguous physical memory, thereby improving the performance of
> the cache. The performance improvement is around 2% e.g.
> iteration benchmark for 320K FFT (exponent ~6M) on my PII-333
> improves from 0.251/0.252 to 0.246/0.247 as a consequence of
> loading this way. (I wrote a dedicated swap thrashing program to
> load the system up).
This is interesting. I tried this method and went from 0.338 to
0.334 on my PPro-233 (exponent ~6.4M), a 1.1% improvement. Not
much but any improvement is welcome...
Did you automate this type of loading with your dedicated program?
This would be nice to have in the StartUp folder...
-- Petri H
