I have a P-II/233 running NT 4.0 that I think is severely
underperforming. It has 256 MB of RAM, and much of it remains free. Some
applications take literally MINUTES to load, and I suspect a CPU problem,
although PrimeNT reports no calculation errors. I suspect that the CPU is
simply underclocked for some unknown reason -- the fan is working properly.
It is taking 1.788 seconds per iteration for exponents in the 8,290,000 range.
Could someone else who has a machine similar to this let me know if that is
an unreasonably high time per iteration? It doesn't have to be an
identical machine, but one reasonably close.
I have another machine, which is a P-II/333, but much more heavily laden
(PDC, MRTG every 5 minutes, network service monitoring, and constant
downloading via Internet, full board at 1Mbps.... and it is doing an 8.4MM
exponent at 0.435 per iteration. Is a 233 REALLY 4 times slower than a
heavily loaded 333?
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