Re: Memory requirements

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

Ian

Well it's actually a P-166 overclocked to 200, running freqmod on the
BDI with TkEmc. I was only running freqmod because of the crash
problem on startup using steppermod. Mouse was a little flakey when
I would move it around. Worked ok when the INI file setting was about
2000 steps/inch but I need 5000 and that is when it slows down. Also
I am running at close to 300 IPM. Has the lockup problem with
steppermod been fixed? Maybe If I upped the mem from 32 to 64
meg that might do the trick, but the new motherboard is allready on
the way and I got the 450 AMD chip for $21.00 off ebay. Good excuse
for upgrading I guess. If I have any problems I will get a little more mem.

Bill

>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I have the BDI EMC running on a P233 with 64M RAM and it seems to perform
> OK. At the moment it is set up to run steppers under freqmod and tkemc and
I
> can drive the steppers as fast as they will go, i.e. I have to turn the
> speed down on EMC to stop them stalling. I suspect that the critical thing
> is the amount of RAM you have available although I also have steppermod
> running with tkemc on a P133 machine with 32M RAM which also performs
fine.
> Again, this is with the BDI install.
> What is it that appears to be slow? Perhaps there is something that needs
> tweaking a bit.
>
> Ian
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield  UK
> www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
> Sent: 22 July 2001 01:36
> Subject: Memory requirements
>
>
> >
> > I have been running EMC under RH5.2 for a while now on
> > a P-200 with 32meg of memory. I tried the BDI on this system
> > but had to go back to RH 5.2 because it was a little too slow.
> > Anyway, I am getting a new processor and mb (AMD 450) and
> > was wondering if 32 meg is enough or do I need more?
> > While I am sure it will run, this computer will be a dedicated
> > machine controller and I will not be running anything else
> > on it. Will more memory do anything for EMC at all?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bill
> >
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