From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_victor.MCESTATE.COM)
Date: Mon Aug 02 1999 - 03:46:47 EDT
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Juan-Carlos Lerman wrote:
> Shattering results, caution: broken window-glass (pun
> very much intended):
>
> Continuation of this morning discussion on performance of
> Win95 OSR2.0, on a TP770-1AU (with 64MB cacheable RAM):
>
> The online load was too variable and the resource meter
> useless for my purpose, so I changed strategy.
Yep, the resource meter seems to drain resources on it's own.
> I standardized running all that I had earlier listed
> on my systray, plus the following apps with displays on
> the desktop: Wintop and 4 browser windows: 1 IExplorer,
> 2 Netscape Navigator, 1 Lynx.
How did you run Lynx in Windows since isn't lynx only a Unix text
browser?
> The benchmarks were done on the results of programs
> running in the background (Prime95 and SETI_at_HOME),
> without GUI display during the run.
>
> SETI_at_HOME runs 10% slower at 128 MB than at 64 MB RAM.
> Prime95 (not so easy to measure), at least 5% slower for
> same RAM range.
Interesting... What chipset does your notebook use and what CPU?
> GUI performance, or "shattering glass" conclusion: dragging
> windows with the tackpoint, reshaping, resizing, invoquing
> new instances of a browser, etc, in summary loading any
> GUI interface went from sluggish to snappy by increasing
> RAM from 64 to 128 MB. (How could I had ever have used 32 MB
> as I did during 1 year?)
No idea, I know on my 385ED, the 16MB didn't last me more than 3
days and I ran out and got a 64 meg module to make it 80 total.
> So, if one doesn't need an interface with images, stay
> within the cacheable limit, otherwise, exchange lower
> computational performance for higher GUI performance.
> How to choose how much total RAM? It seems that it
> depends on how many concurrent GUI interfaces are
> running and how large and frequent are the memory
> leaks. I found useful a little program that tells me
> how much physical RAM is free (the System Monitor in
> the Accessories programs of Win95 can also be set to
> show this value), and unload apps or reboot as to keep
> some MB of free RAM always available.
Hmmm, I always seem to have the RAM, it's the GUI and User
resources that are draining.
> I haven't been able to write the swapfile to a ramdrive.
> If somebody knows how, let me know, please.
>
> JC, not playing solitaire like others...
Cheers,
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