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From: Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: LTspice Loafing?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 01:01:44 -0000 (UTC)
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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,

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Don Kuenz KB7RPU