Hmmm... Well you're not going to believe this then: I got my largest performance increase ever by REDUCING the swapfile on my Win2K system to 2mb. That's right, 2mb. That way windows isn't busy swapping out to memory all the time, which uses up bus and CPU time. This effectively forces windows to actually use the 512mb of memory I have installed. Applications virtually fly open after they have been opened once. Try it sometime. Now, windows will gripe that it doesn't have enough virtual memory every time you restart, and claim that it is resizing the swapfile, but it actually doesn't. If you can put up with the warning every time you reboot, it seems the fastest way to go to me. Also, if you do this you will be limited to the memory size of the machine...no giant swapfile space to save you if you open 10 50mb photos in your editor, but this isn't a factor in my application.
Also, Brian, wouldn't you say that a 3X increase is a bit of an exaggeration? How did you determine this? Subjectively? Perhaps if your memory size is big enough, windows doesn't swap out all the time, causing the effect I have noted above? Frank At 04:25 PM 1/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: >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 > > > Frank Gilley Dell-Star Technologies (918) 838-1973 Phone (918) 838-8814 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dellstar.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
