[Dxspider-support] PC Speed
Darren Collins G0TSM
darren at g0tsm.com
Mon Mar 31 09:25:45 BST 2003
Hi Gang
I'm currently running Spider in Win98se on a P100 laptop. I'm interested in
speeding things up a little and I did try to install Redhat 8.1 on another
PC but i got stuffed when trying to load drivers for a network card.
However, I wonder how long a 'SH/DX' would take under a Linux OS.
For my test I entered SH/DX VK0IR
P100 22 seconds. Win98se 64Mb
P200mmx 17 seconds. Win98se 64Mb
P200mmx 17 seconds WinXP Pro 64Mb Boot time 8 minutes! :-)
PII-200 6 seconds. Win98se 96Mb
K6-2/500 3 seconds. Win98se 256Mb
K6-2/500 3 seconds. WinXP Pro 256Mb
Athlon 1GHz 1 second. WinXP Pro 640Mb
Athlon 2GHz 1 second. WinXP Pro 1Gb
Also, does anyone have a website where I could possibly download old spot
data so I can add missing days to my 2002 folder?,
regards, Darren G0TSM (GB7EDX)
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