Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
Thank you Bill. Listen, I am a "plodder" I look at everything, I test everything looking for what "may" be there. Sometimes you find things and sometimes you don't.
With this last system I just had a gut feeling that there was more to be found and had the feeling that it had to be in the memory.
I happenned to be right BUT it took over 150 hours of testing to find out what the right memory was to get that last 5% from the system.
Now "gut feelings" aren't scientific and often hard to explain to an engineer so first you have to get them on your side and that is what takes years to do.
Bottom line is no engineer is going to listen to some old fart from the NH woods unless you have made them understand that maybe, just maybe you see things that they don't.
dual procs are nice until you have to make a loop for them . . .then you have twice the blocks for not just CPUS but ram and vregs/mofsets as well . . . .total PITA . . .just wish I could have Dave fly out to optimize it all