When it comes to CAD, it does make a difference. 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: "Tim Fifield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Surprising performance increase with protel.. > Does having a large paging (swap file, I'm assuming these are the same) file > really make a difference in system performance? > > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:30 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Surprising performance increase with protel.. > > > 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/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
