Seti@home on Ramdrive
Did anyone tried to run Seti@home client from ramdrive? For me it's seems to be about 10% faster than running from harddrive.
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My system looks like:
ABIT Bh6 MOBO
Intel PIII500@560 MHz
128 MB Kingston PC133 SDRAM
Matrox G400SH 32MB
Creative SB Live! with 5 Creative speakers
2*4.3GB ATAPI HDD
Windows 98 Lite -
Yup, I tried it a few months ago... didn't improve my time at all.
It probably has something to do with the harddisk. If it's a slow harddisk or even worse, if it's not using DMA then disk writes might impact Seti.
I have an IBM DeskStar 34GXP myself running in UDMA4 mode. It can handle something like 20 MB/s in continuous disk writes (don't quote me, I'm not sure about the number), so the few bytes Seti writes once per minute don't have any noticeable negative effect.
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