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Re: LTspice Loafing?

From	Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: LTspice Loafing?
Date	2017-03-11 01:01 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<20170310c@crcomp.net> (permalink)
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makolber@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> >> I was running some simulations on LTspice and it is not even using
>> >> 5% of my CPU.  Nothing else is topping it and the entire computer
>> >> is pretty much at idle.  What could be limiting the speed?
>
> Make sure the hard  drives are running in DMA mode not PIO mode.
>
> They automatically and permanently  fall back to PIO mode  if there
> are hardware errors.

Now that's some mighty fine information to know. FWIW Larkin's
simulation takes ~ 80s when run from a Remote Desktop session and a
mapped Samba share on my ancient 32-bit Pentium 4, 4 GB, W2003 server
with LTSpice v4.20.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it."

Thank you,

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

Thread

LTspice Loafing? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 03:29 -0500
  Re: LTspice Loafing? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2017-03-09 11:37 +0100
    Re: LTspice Loafing? Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2017-03-09 09:53 -0500
      Re: LTspice Loafing? makolber@yahoo.com - 2017-03-09 07:03 -0800
        Re: LTspice Loafing? Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2017-03-11 01:01 +0000
        Re: LTspice Loafing? tabbypurr@gmail.com - 2017-04-17 08:59 -0700
      Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-09 09:34 -0800
        Re: LTspice Loafing? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 18:11 -0500
      Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-09 11:33 -0800
        Re: LTspice Loafing? John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org> - 2017-03-09 14:53 -0600
          Re: LTspice Loafing? Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-03-09 13:42 -0800
            Re: LTspice Loafing? Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-03-09 16:49 -0700
              Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-03-10 10:25 +0000
            Re: LTspice Loafing? Gerhard Hoffmann <ghf@hoffmann-hochfrequenz.de> - 2017-03-10 04:51 +0100
              Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-10 08:20 -0800
                Re: LTspice Loafing? Gerhard Hoffmann <ghf@hoffmann-hochfrequenz.de> - 2017-03-10 19:06 +0100
                Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-10 10:42 -0800
                Re: LTspice Loafing? John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org> - 2017-03-10 20:29 -0600
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-03-11 08:55 +0000
                Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-11 08:46 -0800
                Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-11 08:45 -0800
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-03-11 17:11 +0000
                Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-11 09:39 -0800
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-03-11 18:16 +0000
                Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-11 11:04 -0800
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-03-10 22:56 +0000
                Re: LTspice Loafing? Gerhard Hoffmann <ghf@hoffmann-hochfrequenz.de> - 2017-03-13 06:54 +0100
        Re: LTspice Loafing? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 17:39 -0500
        Re: LTspice Loafing? bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-09 18:01 -0500
          Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-09 15:49 -0800
            Re: LTspice Loafing? bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-09 19:07 -0500
              Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-09 16:13 -0800
                Re: LTspice Loafing? bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-09 20:25 -0500
                Re: LTspice Loafing? John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-09 19:11 -0800
                Re: LTspice Loafing? Bill Martin <wwm@wwmartin.net> - 2017-03-10 10:24 -0800
            Re: LTspice Loafing? bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-12 23:32 -0400
        Re: LTspice Loafing? mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2017-03-10 00:03 -0500
          Re: LTspice Loafing? mhx@iae.nl - 2017-04-17 01:02 -0700
            Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-17 16:14 +0100
              Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemoveandReplaceATkevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-17 17:38 +0100
                Re: LTspice Loafing? Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-04-17 09:54 -0700
                Re: LTspice Loafing? mhx@iae.nl - 2017-04-17 11:55 -0700
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-17 21:20 +0100
                Re: LTspice Loafing? mhx@iae.nl - 2017-04-17 14:22 -0700
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-18 19:16 +0100
              Re: LTspice Loafing? mhx@iae.nl - 2017-04-17 12:09 -0700
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-17 21:19 +0100
                Re: LTspice Loafing? mhx@iae.nl - 2017-04-17 14:14 -0700
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-18 19:14 +0100
                Re: LTspice Loafing? mhx@iae.nl - 2017-04-18 14:04 -0700
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-19 08:45 +0100
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Tim Williams" <tiwill@seventransistorlabs.com> - 2017-04-19 00:35 -0500
                Re: LTspice Loafing? mhx@iae.nl - 2017-04-19 05:28 -0700
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-19 14:00 +0100
                Re: LTspice Loafing? mhx@iae.nl - 2017-04-19 10:35 -0700
                Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-04-19 20:29 +0100
        Re: LTspice Loafing? John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> - 2017-03-10 07:19 +0000
    Re: LTspice Loafing? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 13:23 -0500
  Re: LTspice Loafing? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-03-09 03:15 -0800
    Re: LTspice Loafing? "Kevin Aylward" <kevinRemovAT@kevinaylward.co.uk> - 2017-03-09 20:12 +0000
      Re: LTspice Loafing? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 17:47 -0500
      Re: LTspice Loafing? bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-09 18:09 -0500
        Re: LTspice Loafing? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2017-03-10 01:00 +0100
          Re: LTspice Loafing? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 19:52 -0500
  Re: LTspice Loafing? bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-09 18:23 -0500

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