From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Tue May 25 1999 - 11:47:50 MDT
@christopher [chris@angelbyte.com] wrote:
>Question: Is it normal for a P233 with 64MB of ram to take 59' 16" and 17.1
>seconds to complete 43.090% of its first data unit?
Probably not; my 450/128MB takes around 32 hours per unit... except that
the software seems to be buggy so it rarely gets a unit done in that
time. I left it running over the weekend and came back to discover a nice
little dialog box asking me whether to connect to upload the results, and
to configure the program to connect automatically if I didn't want to see
the dialog box again... of course I'd already configured this once, and it
worked perfectly with the first unit it finished. That wasted about forty
hours of CPU time.
Last night Windows got some kind of network error around midnight and so
the machine was sitting there waiting for me to click on the stupid dialog
box that Windows put up, wasting another 12 hours or so of CPU time. Ah,
the wonders of crappy Microsoft software...
Oh, and apparently it runs a lot faster if you minimize the window.
Mark
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