Posts by old_user1063

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : So slow even on a quad cpu? (Message 2232) Posted 30 Aug 2004 by old_user1063 Post: We are running 4 real CPUs. As for workload, we only have momentary super heavy workload that may last 10-30 seconds / hour. Other than that 10-30 seconds the machine is idle(1-2% workload). The file system/storage is housed on a 5 hard disk(5x120gb mirror storage all SCSI) raid system with 120GB total storage, so access times and swap file times should be very low. > Sounds reasonable to me, assuming that is 2 real and 2 virtual CPUs. If it is > 4 real CPUs there may be a problem. What kind of workload does the machine > have excluding BOINC/CPDN? CPDN can be fairly heavy on the file system too, so > even with low CPU usage a file server may have trouble producing the expected > amount of progess due to I/O bottlenecks. > <br>John Keck > BOINCing since 2002/12/08 > >
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : So slow even on a quad cpu? (Message 1939) Posted 28 Aug 2004 by old_user1063 Post: We here at Prima Worldwide are running a quad CPU server in 24/7 workload (run always) for CP.net and it is still saying it is going to take 1000 hours to process the 4 work units we have. I know that on a small home unit that it will take 3-4 weeks to do a work unit, but our server should have better preformance than 1 month to process 4 results right? BTW Our server is a quad (Intel 3.06Ghz Xeon) processor system with 3 GB of ram on win2003-server so there is no lack of power or memory. Our preformance monitor says we are 100% CPU usage as well. Any suggestions or comments?