Just noticed something

[winston]

Testing Prime on my winchester and noticed the page file usage had risen to over 1.6Gb :eek:

Now i know this isn't normal is it? Also would this cause failures due to the swap file access?

Just a thought?

Can anyone check there's for me also

Running Prime 24.6 - Going to try an older version now

[craig588]

You are letting it use too much memory, reduce it to about 200MB below your amount of memory. (You need about 200MB left over for the OS/drivers/folding app/and other stuff you have going on in the background)

[winston]

You are letting it use too much memory, reduce it to about 200MB below your amount of memory. (You need about 200MB left over for the OS/drivers/folding app/and other stuff you have going on in the background)

I have tryed dropping it right down to 512Mb but it still hogs the page file?

I have 2 x 512 btw

[winston]

ANyone any ideas?

[Poki]

Use the large fft test, i never use the blend test as it puts alot of extra wear on your hdd's.

[winston]

Use the large fft test, i never use the blend test as it puts alot of extra wear on your hdd's.

So it always uses the page file?

[Poki]

It does for gigantic calculations, it's pretty slow to test with blend too... 50% of the test is throttled by HDD I/O maybe more. If your after mem/cpu testing large fft works fine IMO.

[winston]

It does for gigantic calculations, it's pretty slow to test with blend too... 50% of the test is throttled by HDD I/O maybe more. If your after mem/cpu testing large fft works fine IMO.

Ok many thanks fella :toast:

[STEvil]

It does for gigantic calculations, it's pretty slow to test with blend too... 50% of the test is throttled by HDD I/O maybe more. If your after mem/cpu testing large fft works fine IMO.

Wait.. how many people having trouble with winchesters not priming are using SATA/PATA or high performance IDE drive? :confused: