Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 18:24:54 11/28/02
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On November 28, 2002 at 17:39:43, James T. Walker wrote: >On November 28, 2002 at 17:18:41, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On November 28, 2002 at 15:03:04, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>I have two computers which are almost identical. The motherboards/cpu are >>>identical. The video cards are different. The hard drives are the same with >>>one exception. On one the primary/master is 40G/7200rpm and the slave is >>>8G/5400. On the second computer the drives are the same but master & slave are >>>reversed. I have my tablebases installed on the 40G/7200 rpm drive in both >>>cases. >>>Here is the problem. When running test on programs to check speed like Fritz >>>mark they are almost identical. But when testing endgame positions where the >>>tablebases are being accessed very heavy the speed difference gets to 2:1. The >>>NPS on one is 2 times higher than the other. Any suggestions as to the cause? >>>Jim >> >>Although you don't mention - what is your OS and do both machines have the same. >> >>If they are the same, my guess is that faster machine is the one that has the >>egtb and os on different drives. Normally the OS will pick as a default which >>drive to use for the page file system, and it's typically the same as drive that >>you installed the OS. No you don't have to re-install the OS. Just switch your >>drive for the page file system on your slow machine. >> >>I never used WIN98, but typically right "My Computer", select the "Performance" >>tab, click virtual memory - keep the settings the same if you can (size wise), >>but switch it to the other drive. > >Hello Mike, >I tried switching the drives like you said and it made the slow machine worse. >Jim Sorry Jim, I don't your problem is going to be easy to solve short of re-installing the OS. Before doing that, I would check for updated drivers for the harddrive - I know Intel has a harddrive accelerator for some of their chips. That might be an easy fix. http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/ read the "readme's" first :) Mike
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