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Former Member
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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@Dataman: Now that is cute. I seem to be the proverbial salmon swimming upstream on this but nevertheless: Defragging speed and elapsed time is highly dependent on how fragmented the disk is. In other words, the better the shape the disk is in, the shorter the defrag process. Defragmented files load faster regardless of whether they are needed to boot or to run word or ..... any program including WCG tasks. One of the first 4 things I do when someone brings me a sluggish machine is to run defrag on it ... usually several times. There have been cases where it alone has solved the problem..(no viruses or rootkits ... no memory problems...too many started tasks... etc.) I have people go buy Microsoft Onecare at Walmart or order it from Newegg and get it for under $30. This gives them licenses for 3 machines for one year. Then I have them set up the disk cleanup and defrag to run one night a week at 3 am or so (OneCare “tune-up”). This combination reduces the phone calls I get for pro-bono support. (And believe me…that is a good thing) |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Looks to be a milestone day today. Team MOT should reach 100K credits @ YoYo (thanks Jonathan). I should reach 3 million credits @ GPUGrid and get my second level badge for crunchin Evo.
---------------------------------------- Jonathan is approaching 2 million credits. Blizzie's GPU crunching has passed his GPU crunching  and his total approaches 2.5 milliion. Way to go!Cooler here today... forecast 86F.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Looks to be a milestone day today. Team MOT should reach 100K credits @ YoYo (thanks Jonathan). I should reach 3 million credits @ GPUGrid and get my second level badge for crunchin Evo. Jonathan is approaching 2 million credits. Blizzie's GPU crunching has passed his GPU crunching and his total approaches 2.5 milliion. Way to go!Cooler here today... forecast 86F. Good job with the BoincStats Update. We should make this a regular feature. DM can be our BOINC UNIVERSE correspondent. also... GO MOT@YOYO@HOME! |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Looks to be a milestone day today. Team MOT should reach 100K credits @ YoYo (thanks Jonathan). I should reach 3 million credits @ GPUGrid and get my second level badge for crunchin Evo. Jonathan is approaching 2 million credits. Blizzie's GPU crunching has passed his GPU crunching and his total approaches 2.5 milliion. Way to go!Cooler here today... forecast 86F. Good job with the BoincStats Update. We should make this a regular feature. DM can be our BOINC UNIVERSE correspondent. also... GO MOT@YOYO@HOME! Hahaha ... well ... No. Just some things I noticed this morning. Anyone on our team can find out anything about the team here and in more detail than you can absorb.  |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I seem to be the proverbial salmon swimming upstream on this but nevertheless: Defragging speed and elapsed time is highly dependent on how fragmented the disk is. In other words, the better the shape the disk is in, the shorter the defrag process. Defragmented files load faster regardless of whether they are needed to boot or to run word or ..... any program including WCG tasks. One of the first 4 things I do when someone brings me a sluggish machine is to run defrag on it ... usually several times. There have been cases where it alone has solved the problem..(no viruses or rootkits ... no memory problems...too many started tasks... etc.) I have people go buy Microsoft Onecare at Walmart or order it from Newegg and get it for under $30. This gives them licenses for 3 machines for one year. Then I have them set up the disk cleanup and defrag to run one night a week at 3 am or so (OneCare “tune-up”). This combination reduces the phone calls I get for pro-bono support. (And believe me…that is a good thing) You're not a salmon RT. I've found that any Windows box benefits from a reboot at least once a week and a defrag too. If I don't do that, I start seeing increasingly strange behavior or problems. That's with XP. I have Vista Business on my daughter's quad (the Business/Pro side of Windows has always seemed better quality) and I tend to defrag/reboot more often there but that's due to the software programs she runs. They are always swapping out files as she's running the programs. |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I seem to be the proverbial salmon swimming upstream on this but nevertheless: Defragging speed and elapsed time is highly dependent on how fragmented the disk is. In other words, the better the shape the disk is in, the shorter the defrag process. Defragmented files load faster regardless of whether they are needed to boot or to run word or ..... any program including WCG tasks. One of the first 4 things I do when someone brings me a sluggish machine is to run defrag on it ... usually several times. There have been cases where it alone has solved the problem..(no viruses or rootkits ... no memory problems...too many started tasks... etc.) I have people go buy Microsoft Onecare at Walmart or order it from Newegg and get it for under $30. This gives them licenses for 3 machines for one year. Then I have them set up the disk cleanup and defrag to run one night a week at 3 am or so (OneCare “tune-up”). This combination reduces the phone calls I get for pro-bono support. (And believe me…that is a good thing) You're not a salmon RT. I've found that any Windows box benefits from a reboot at least once a week and a defrag too. If I don't do that, I start seeing increasingly strange behavior or problems. That's with XP. I have Vista Business on my daughter's quad (the Business/Pro side of Windows has always seemed better quality) and I tend to defrag/reboot more often there but that's due to the software programs she runs. They are always swapping out files as she's running the programs. On my old pc, I used to defrag twice a week. I had 3 hard drives fail. On my Alienware and Quad, I have defragged each one twice. None of those drives have failed. I have stopped believing in defragging. |
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brown chris
Master Cruncher California - USA Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 2498 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I seem to be the proverbial salmon swimming upstream on this but nevertheless: Defragging speed and elapsed time is highly dependent on how fragmented the disk is. In other words, the better the shape the disk is in, the shorter the defrag process. Defragmented files load faster regardless of whether they are needed to boot or to run word or ..... any program including WCG tasks. One of the first 4 things I do when someone brings me a sluggish machine is to run defrag on it ... usually several times. There have been cases where it alone has solved the problem..(no viruses or rootkits ... no memory problems...too many started tasks... etc.) I have people go buy Microsoft Onecare at Walmart or order it from Newegg and get it for under $30. This gives them licenses for 3 machines for one year. Then I have them set up the disk cleanup and defrag to run one night a week at 3 am or so (OneCare “tune-up”). This combination reduces the phone calls I get for pro-bono support. (And believe me…that is a good thing) You're not a salmon RT. I've found that any Windows box benefits from a reboot at least once a week and a defrag too. If I don't do that, I start seeing increasingly strange behavior or problems. That's with XP. I have Vista Business on my daughter's quad (the Business/Pro side of Windows has always seemed better quality) and I tend to defrag/reboot more often there but that's due to the software programs she runs. They are always swapping out files as she's running the programs. On my old pc, I used to defrag twice a week. I had 3 hard drives fail. On my Alienware and Quad, I have defragged each one twice. None of those drives have failed. I have stopped believing in defragging. Good point - Defragging causes more wear and tear on the drives than it does any good...
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Former Member
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<- Always defrags.
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