Continue to Site

Welcome to EDAboard.com

Welcome to our site! EDAboard.com is an international Electronics Discussion Forum focused on EDA software, circuits, schematics, books, theory, papers, asic, pld, 8051, DSP, Network, RF, Analog Design, PCB, Service Manuals... and a whole lot more! To participate you need to register. Registration is free. Click here to register now.

Help me select enough RAM for IC 5141

Status
Not open for further replies.

safwatonline

Advanced Member level 4
Advanced Member level 4
Joined
Nov 19, 2005
Messages
1,341
Helped
219
Reputation
438
Reaction score
48
Trophy points
1,328
Location
EGYPT
Activity points
9,038
hello,
i am just installing IC 5141 on my computer , but it is really really slow , i want to know what is the good size of RAM for fast operation , i have P4 2.4 GHz processor
thnx,
A.SAFWAT
 

Re: hardware requirment

Hello!
You will verify on your system the mode DMA.

hdparm /dev/hda

The variable using_dma must be stay on "1 (on)"

I am so think!
 

Re: hardware requirment

Shurik said:
Hello!
You will verify on your system the mode DMA.

hdparm /dev/hda

The variable using_dma must be stay on "1 (on)"

I am so think!
That's only if he has IDE drives. SCSI is much faster.

safwatonline,
1GB or more I would say is good.
 

Re: hardware requirment

Shurik said:
Hello!
You will verify on your system the mode DMA.

hdparm /dev/hda

The variable using_dma must be stay on "1 (on)"

I am so think!
huh ! i dont understand a single word :D
plz take plain english as i am ignorant in linux,
thnx,
a.safwat
 

Re: hardware requirment

safwat,
he has saying to check to make sure you're IDE (ATA) subsystem is operating with direct memory access (DMA). This can speed up reads and writes to the hard disks. This can speed up your application if it's using a lot swap space.

Go to a root prompt and type:


Code:
/sbin/hdparm /dev/hda

If you have IDE disks, it will show you if you DMA enabled or not.
Run hdparm on whatever disk the swap space is located, and / and your IC application.
 

    safwatonline

    Points: 2
    Helpful Answer Positive Rating
hardware requirment

I think,the P4 2.4 GHz processor is enough.
 

hardware requirment

what do you meen by "slow" ?
 

hardware requirment

P4 2.4 GHz processor should be enough, check your OS or other APP slow or fast
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Part and Inventory Search

Welcome to EDABoard.com

Sponsor

Back
Top