On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:56:33 -0000, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
>On 13 Apr 00, at 22:47, Francois LeBlanc wrote:
>
>> On another note, I want to convince my University faculty (Science) to
>> run Prime 95 in the computer labs. How can I prove that the client
>> will not affect the performance of the computers; even the old Pentium
>> 60ish. I'm not sure if I believe that myself.
>
>Don't forget you can also use the "time of day" stuff (in prime.ini)
>to make Prime95 get completely off the system at times when the
>system is required to be 100% dedicated to user applications.
>
This is a good option and I use it very often, especially on slower
machines. What I am missing is some 'screensaver-functionality' (i.e.
prime95 stops when there is some user interactivity). I would find it
very usefull if this can be added to furture versions of prime95 (or
even better to the nt service) George?
>Basically what I'm saying is that, if you can run what the users want
>on a system (no matter how slow it is or how ungenerous its memory),
>running Prime95 in the background as well should make no perceivable
>difference to the system so far as users are concerned. For instance,
>
yes, it "should", but I noticed, that on some machines prime95/ntprime
gets out of control after a few days and the system is no longer useable.
The program seems to get all the cpu time, allthough it runs with the
default (lowest) priority. Sometimes it helps to reboot the machine once
or twice a day, but just only sometimes :( Any idea, what could be the
reason?
happy hunting
Siegmar
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