My 233 is running much better than your 1.788 as well. A few million
things come to mind...
First, are you running the newest software? Prime95 is up to, what...
19.0.2? Something like that... I'm sure it's on the page. Also, if
you're in a Microsoft environment, Richard's right... check for things in
the Task Manager. "FindFast" is a Microsoft program that likes to eat CPU
time, and can be removed from the "StartUp" folder if it's on your system.
On the more obscure side of things, I just upgraded my motherboard, and
had to do a lot of manual settings to get it to work 'efficiently' with my
233. A 233 is running a 66Mhz clock at a 3.5 multiplier rate... the
motherboard I got (an Iwill motherboard) defaulted to something else, and
it wasn't readily obvious that this was the problem. (Okay, it was
readily obvious if you read the manual, but come on, who does that?).
I/O isn't an issue with this software, but you may want to check your
cache (L1 and L2), perhaps by disabling/enabling it in the bios to see how
that affects performance, and you may want to download some benchmark
programs (ZDNet has some good ones, I believe) to check your cache and Ram
speeds.
Generally those are the problems I find causing software to run poorly.
---Chip
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Pardoe, Richard (PRDR) wrote:
> I have a Pentium 232 running NT 4.0 with only 96 MB of RAM that is getting
> about 0.6 seconds per iteration for an exponent in the 8,490,000 range.
>
> It might be worthwhile to look in the Task Manager to see what is using the
> CPU time. My CPU is typically mid-90% of the time w/ Prime95.
>
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Woods
>
> 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.
> ...
> It is taking 1.788 seconds per iteration for exponents in the 8,290,000
> range.
>
>
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