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In Reply to: RE: Now, that is important! posted by steppe on December 05, 2011 at 10:07:32
I reverted to maxmem as suggested. This time the cpu ran in the teens rather than low single digits I can't explain the change. Now maxmem runs just a few percent less cpu usage than burnmemory, and perhaps the latter sounds a bit better since now with our new math I am burning more memory to get a truer 256 remainder (3072-2716).
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Please, if you have time and leasure, keep the record of these settings reverting from one to another and try to record the cpu usage. I wonder if both commands allow to bite off a different part of the physical memory every time, and it is important to catch the least possible, if it is possible at all.
Serge
(Certainly, if You have time to do it)
ALSO, Did You try yhe full line with /nopae and/onecpu settings?
What do you think of the sonic change?
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I have gone back and forth between maxmem and burnmemory three more times. I complicated it a bit by reducing the resulting memory used progressively. Still I never reproduced the very low cpu usage I saw at first. It must have been an anomaly or mistake of some kind. In all cases usage varied mostly in the range of 15-20% with spikes into the 20's. I have now gotten down to using 226MB with maxmem. It is hard to say there was any significant improvement in sq beyond the initial benefit of reducing to maxmem=256. If any it is refinement of ultra-refinement. I repeat that I have been using the full boot.ini line with /nopae and /onecpu all along with this.
It is puzzling to me given the overall goal of reducing cpu stress that this memory limitation improves things though increasing cpu usage--though it is now usage of one core instead of two. Contradicts our premise, doesn't it?
And it is something to think about.
Serge.
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