I increased from 256MB to 384MB; plus a second 28G hard drive partitioned 10, 10 & 8 with the 8G being dedicated to a swap file. Making that large of a swap file alone made my system faster. All this on WIN98 SE! Sean James PCB Designer Telecast Fiber Systems, Inc. 102 Grove Street Worcester, MA 01605 (TEL) 508.754.4858 x33 (FAX) 413.541.6170
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:09 PM Subject: [PEDA] Surprising performance increase with protel.. > I just upgraded my Win2K system from 512MB to 2GB. When first running Protel, > the performance was typically the same as before. The huge diference is after > working 2 hours on a design, going thru .PDF chip data sheets, using IE to DL IC data > sheets ect. At this point, Protel is running at triple speed compared to the old > 512MB configuration. > > > > System - Win2K, 2GB ram, 3GB swapfile. > > > > ____________ > Brian Guralnick > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
