When I increased the memory on my wifes system the time used was almost cut in half.

The Pentium 4 that I use has 512 megs of ram and takes almost 2 hours more than her Celeron with 764 Megs, benchmarks for the two are close to the same. Increasing the memory in hers made little diferance on other programs, but Rosetta needed it.

Times for the Celeron are at Click here

I had also chenged the OS from Win 98 to Win XP so it has a new ID and there are enoughf diferances that they will not merge at the web site so these are just the new times.

Cheers
Ray Brown

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There might be 2 possible reason why
1. WU differ from each other so unless you run identical WU, this might be an explanation. Note: to run for benchmark purpose, I would pack the whole BOINC folder and run in till WU finish on both systems - in an off-line mode of course.
2. When you hit the memory limit, Win start to use swap file. This may slow down the whole computer...and can be quite stresfull on HD (shortening it's life).

Other apps runnung? Antivirus, firewall, ICQ, web browsers?
All of them use memory, some of them needs a bit of CPU cycles as well...

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