Re: Linux's Swarm needs...

[Jan Kreft]

Hi Brad,

I upgraded from 32 to 64 MB RAM and would recommend doing the same. With
more memory, you avoid swapping which will occur if you have a lot of fat
agents or a lot of big programms running and you get a large disk cache
which makes compiling etc. a lot
faster because the processor doesn't have to wait for the hard drive
anymore. With 32 MB the CPU was half idle a lot of the time. Now the CPU
is 100% busy when I compile, run the sim etc. It would make
sense to upgrade the CPU now (P133) ;).

Hope that helps,

Jan.

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 address@hidden wrote:

> For all Swarm users who are on a Linux platform,
> 
> In a couple months, our project team will have the option of upgrading
> our machine, which we have Linux (and Swarm) installed on.
> Currently, it is a Pent 200, with 32 meg ram, 4 meg video card, etc...
> 
> We have noticed when we run Heatbugs with "lots of agents" or if we run
> my "Heatbugs enhanced" that it tends to slow down very noticiably. 
> Would the Swarm user community recomend upgrading to:
> 1) a faster chip?
> 2) more memory?
> 3) or is it just inefficent code?
> 
> Another way of asking this is...if any of you started on Linux (and
> swarm) on a slower machine and later upgraded to a faster machine (or
> more memory) did you notice a difference?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad.
> 
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