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Remote herd going down :(

T

Terminal

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The only IT person above me (ie, my father) thinks that RC5 is causing slowdowns on all the business machines. Even though I know it never has and probably never will, there's no point in argueing with him, no matter what. So for the next month or two, my keyrate will be basically nil until I can get home to figure out what process on the machines really IS causing the slowdown. Sorry for losing so large of a keyrate in our time of need 🙁
 
Well are the machines HD full? defrag lately? clear out temp files? let us know and well try to help out.
 
I'm curious, did you notice any loss of keyrate from those machines? If you did (or even if you didn't) you might want to try Another Task Manager to see what's taking all the CPU time. You should probably run it with the options "CPUCOOLER OFF" 🙂

If that doesn't work, you might get Sandra to check out any other possibilities. E.g. I think I need more memory because I have been running at 200% usage.
 
Adul, unfortunately it's not up for debate right now, as I'm 2.5 hours away and my father is physically at the remote herd. I think it's more the fact that they're rebooted about once every month or so, which, even with NT is still not enough :/ Once I do get home however, I may take up your offer of help if RC5 does seem to be slowing them down. Thanks for the offer though 🙂
 
diskkeeper

If he is running Win NT workstation, then it does not have a defrag utlility at all. Try diskkeeper, work great and there is a free version, and a trial version you can try. It should help things out a bit.
 
Adul, we have Diskeeper 5.0 Workstation on all the PC's and DK 5.0 Server to remotely defrag them all 🙂 This is a pretty serious network, with only two 98 laptops and the rest are NT or 2000 PC's. I'm still a bit confused about what could have caused the slowdown. I have a feeling my father disabled the service, restarted, and then assumed the usual restart speedup was because of disabling the service. I'll keep you all updated when I do have a chance to work on them though. Sigh, my daily output is gonna drop from ~4200 blocks to ~600 or less 🙁
 
That is too bad, we could use the keyrate. Our two PC's at work run Norton Antivirus and it puts a pretty hard hit on the systems, which are only equipped with 64Mb of RAM. Starting Office apps results in massive disk paging, and that's with Win95. Win2000Pro pretty much requires 128Mb to work the way you'd want, in my experience, and I found that 192Mb was even better for my usual "workload" (ZoneAlarm, Unreal Tournament, IRC, Dnet client, Internet Explorer). On my dual-processor system, the client is using 1,372k of RAM at the moment to run two crunchers, making it the seventh-biggest RAM user on an otherwise-idle system. Hardly a resource hog!
 
I found that the latest crap from Real Networks was eating up ~8 MB of memory.
~4 MB for the start icon in the system tray, and another 4 for a 'cute' little progy called "Comet Cursor." And don't EVEN ASK about the Dixie Chicks screen saver.

And then the users complain that the computer is slow when that extra 8 megs makes the memory page out. You wouldn't believe how they would browse to the company website....they never heard of bookmarks or favorites. grumble grumble

I hope that you get that problem handled Terminal.

viz
 
Ask him if the computers are any faster after turning RC5 off. I bet they won't be. 🙂 Maybe he'll turn RC5 back on once he realizes that it probably isn't the problem.
 
Uhhh, talking about screen savers, how about using the client in screen saver mode only. It certainly won't slow anything down then.

viz
 
Ooo, very good proposal, Viz. Unless they start complaining because of the blank screen...
 
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