On 22 Oct 99, at 11:16, Steinar H . Gunderson wrote:
> >Try adding the line
> >
> >8:2345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/mprime
> >
> >to /etc/inittab.
>
> Note that this can degrade performance -- I don't know why, but it might be
> more going on when all the VTs are inited, and the memory map gets more
> fragmented.
Probably.
What about constructing a file (/etc/mprime.rc) containing
sleep 1m
/usr/local/bin/mprime
& invoking it with
8:2345:respawn:/bin/sh /etc/mprime.rc
in /etc/inittab?
The 1 minute delay is to give the other stuff time to initialize. In
linux, waiting for initialization to complete (disk drive stops
hammering away) the logging on & starting mprime manually seems to
give good results in so far as mprime runs reasonably close to its
potential fastest speed. Conversely (or perhaps perversely), Windows
needs ReCache, _especially_ just after a fresh boot, to make Prime95
run at its best speed.
Regards
Brian Beesley
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