Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
hey massman... thats weird though, why does it need that much space to calculate pi? it ultimately makes it a hard drive benchmark considering this bench is so old... back then the cache was so slow that the hdd must have played a big role in getting good results. now which uge caches and mem the problem isnt that much the hdd i guess.

again, weird why it needs so much space...
and 632mb... well we are talking about systems with 2gb of mem so why would pi write something to the hdd and not the mem, the mem should have plenty of space for any temp file pile that bench comes up with...

copying what from d to c makes the pi run slower?
- No, the 632MB is used to clean up the memory's matrix from all the other data. It's not about cleaning the HDD, I think. The HDD transfer is just a way to clean the memory.

- Maybe, by limiting the ammount of memory, the data will be less spread over the memory's matrix and thus faster accesible? I believe you can use maxmen=600, 700, 500 as well, you have to alter the 3 files however to 732 and 532. Right, Kevin??

- Not SuperPi runs slower, the copying itself is slower.