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Apologies if this is redundant -- I never saw it go through to
"base."
Regarding creeping slowdown of Prime95:
Here is a strategy: first use a "process
display" program like Process
Viewer 200" to look at the processes running along with Prime95. CTRL-ALT-DEL will show some, but not all of them, and there are some parasitic processes
which
seem not to show up at all. PV2000 can be
used to delete or change priority
of most concurrent tasks, tuning the machine in question to give Prime95 MaxHeadroom including "real time" priority,
squeezing out all but vital system
functions. I had to resort to the latter to get a Compaq Presario7998 to turn in top performance.
PV2000 is free, and can be found with an avalanche of other utilities at: http://winfiles.cnet.com/apps/98/system-analyze.html about 35 programs from the page top. I'd be very curious to know if this solves the problem, and I can give you a list of the 8 processes I've found that make up the essentials. Other utilities such as MemTurbo (not free) can be used to automatically scavenge memory when MemAvail drops below a preset limit, forcing grabage collection.
Feel free to contact me about this, Best Wishes, Stefanovic ----- Original Message ----- From: Russel Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Mersenne: weird behaviour Prime 95 > Henk Stokhorst wrote: > > whenever I restart Windows95 Prime 95 runs fine for a couple of hours > > and than slows down enormously. The machine is usually > > My friend's Win98 machine does the same thing. She went on vacation for > a week and when she returned a factoring iteration that use to take > about 13 seconds now took over 170. After restarting the fast > performance returned (for a while). The machine is an IBM Aptiva with > |
