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I noticed a substantial drop in CPU usage when I installed the second 256Mb
RDRAM in this system. CPU usage dropped from average 58% at the open to
average 21%, and the average during the day dropped from 26% to less than
10% average. I don't understand why the amount of RAM would affect CPU
usage, but it does.
>>A 2-CPU machine will achieve the same result with much slower processors.
>>Unfortunately I'm not in a position to do the test, as I don't currently use that
>>type of real-time datafeed, but this has been my experience in similar situations.
>>What's happening at the open is that the one CPU is completely busy processing
>>incoming data, and hence unavailable to do anything else like move a trendline (and
>>Omega wrote the process in such a way as to completely monopolize the processor).
>>On a 2-CPU machine there's always another processor available, so you rarely see a
>>delay - the keyboard never goes "dead". The advantage is not so much that
>>individual operations are faster as that everything is *smoother*. For example you
>>can get a lot more done comfortably in other programs while running a long
>>optimization.
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