Fw: [Dxspider-support] PC Speed

[Ian]

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From: "Ian Morrison" <ve3iem at rac.ca>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: March 31, 2003 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] PC Speed


> At first glance the time seems to be related to the amount of memory , so
I
> did a similar test with the cluster here. It is running under Windows '98
on
> a 486 Pentium at 120mhz. I connected via the RF ax25 link, entered 'sh/dx
> vk0ir' and the total time was 14 sec. The cluster was quite quiet at the
> time. I think there are many variables that will affect the apparent
speed.
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> 73 de Ian
> ve3iem
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darren Collins G0TSM" <darren at g0tsm.com>
> To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
> Sent: March 31, 2003 3:25 AM
> Subject: [Dxspider-support] PC Speed
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> > Hi Gang
> > I'm currently running Spider in Win98se on a P100 laptop. I'm interested
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> > 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?,
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> > regards, Darren G0TSM (GB7EDX)
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