[SLL] is my slowdown due to hardware?

[Brian Lane]

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William Kreuter wrote:

> How in general does one go about ruling out that it
> could be any factor other than creaky hardware?  And
> what would be the hardware problem?  Drives spinning
> too slowly?  CPU not clocking right?  Grubby RAM?  My
> knowledge of hardware and o/s arcana is minimal.

Have you rerun your old simulations to make sure you base-line is what
you remember?

I like the 'atop' program for watching system performance. It does a
good job of showing what's active, and you can tell pretty easily if
your bottleneck is CPU, RAM or drive I/O.

Brian


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