[Dxspider-support] SHOW/DX ignoring old spots

[Darren G0TSM]

This is what i got using the default 100 day search period

System                    uncached secs     cached secs
P100   32MB                 up to 
50                12                 Pentium laptop Win98
P1-200MMX  48MB           15                      6                  (New 
GB7DXS) Good result due to small spot database
P2-200 
128MB                  20                      8                  Compaq 
desktop Win98
1GHz Athlon 
384MB          13                      5                   Thunderbird cpu 
+ 10GB Win98 or XP same results
2GHz Athlon 
512MB           7                       2                   XP2400+7200rpm 
40GB WinXP
2.5GHz Athlon 
512MB        5                       1                   XP3000+7200rpm 
120GB WinXP



I actually down graded my cluster pc back to the 1GHz Athlon as the extra 
performance gained didn't seem worth all the extra heat and fan noise in 
the shack!,

The way I checked the disk cache was to do a SH/DX ANYTHING after a reboot, 
this ensures a clear disk cache, then run the same command again, this time 
it will have been cached.

It'll be interesting to see how these results compare to other Window's 
systems or compared to a Linux system.


Darren G0TSM/GB7EDX



At 00:12 06/05/2005, you wrote:
>Ooo err...
>
>That's an interesting idea. Have you done any benchmarks to see what the
>difference is?