[Dxspider-support] PC Speed

[Jimmy Turner]

I am running Spider on Linux, RedHat7.3, on an AMD 700 mhz machine with
256mg of pc100 ram.  The sh/dx vk0ir took 1-2 seconds consistantly.  I
hope this helps.

Jimmy
73  de  K5JTJ

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 02:25, Darren Collins G0TSM wrote:
> 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.
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> For my test I entered SH/DX VK0IR
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> 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
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> 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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