"Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
>
> On 27 Feb 00, at 22:56, Your Name wrote:
>
> > [snip] the time allotted to the LL test is 50 days, a bit less
> > than half the time the P166 actually needs.
>
> No, your system is running slow for some reason. Is it an AMD
> processor, or is it running ~12 hrs/day? Either of these would
> explain the anomaly.
>
It's an HP Vectra VL Series 4, 5/166 with a Pentium processor and 32MB
running 24 hours a day. Currently LL'ing M9393623, it has an iteration
time of 0.883 seconds. Prime95 appears to be running entirely in
memory, as there is rarely a disk access (basically to update the save
files). Recalling other posts about the BIOS setup causing slow
processing, I checked that, but both L1 and L2 memory caching are
enabled. This is a dedicated PC, so there's nothing else running other
than Windows 95 itself (in fact, there's nothing else *on* the system).
I'd be grateful for any other suggestions, as I've run out of ideas.
> [snip]
> There are two ways to use automatic assignments in your situation:
>
> (a) if you have a LAN, run pnProxy on the system with the internet
> connection;
>
> (b) without a LAN, set up another copy of Prime95 in a different
> directory on your system with internet connectivity [snip]
Thanks for these suggestions; now I have another goal (or two).
>
> Regards
> Brian Beesley
>
> p.s. Why not change the "Your Name" parameter in your mail client to
> something meaningful?
Ouch! The "Your Name" e-mail was the first one I sent out after
upgrading to Netscape 4.7 which updated all my other settings fine,
but... well, you get the picture. Talk about embarrassing!
By the way, thanks for all your other information... very helpful.
Best regards,
Dennis Pope
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