On 20 Jan 00, at 0:36, Stefan Struiker wrote:
> Would increasing PIII (500MHz) memory from 128M to 256M improve
> L-L performance? Current exponent being tested is in range 9,xxx,xxx.
Increasing the amount of memory will have _no effect whatsoever_
unless the system is short of memory. LL testing an exponent in the 9
million range uses less than 10 MBytes of memory in total.
I don't know what else you're running on your system, but I'm running
similar exponents in a system with 32 MBytes memory (running under
linux), and it's just FINE. Windoze will need a tad more memory but
64 MBytes would be more than sufficient so far as running Prime95 is
concerned.
An easy way to see if you have sufficient memory - irrespective of OS
etc - is to look at the disk access light. If it's off most of the
time you probably have at least enough memory in the system. If it's
constantly or almost constantly on, and you hear lots of clattering
from the head actuators, you *may* be short of memory - but,
alternatively, it could just be that whatever you're running is doing
a lot of file access. Anyway, if the disk isn't being accessed much,
it isn't even worth thinking about adding more memory.
Regards
Brian Beesley
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