Godfodda
02-12-02, 05:40 PM
Just passing this on in case someone else has a similar machine.
My accursed laptop from work was the second machine I brought into my little crunch-fest. It's an IBM Thinkpad 600E and as noted in my sig it's a P2 300. The beast has been giving me 50 hr average times, lowest was 36, highest 70.
Some months ago I downloaded the ThinkPad Utilities program from IBM's website. Played with it a little hoping to get lucky and find something that would make for faster crunching, but no luck. Until three days ago.
I have a lot of dead time when riding to a jobsite (NY this week), so I started playing with settings in the program. Finally noticed something noted as Processor Speed under the Power Management menu, Power Mode tab. There is a setting marked "High Performance". Clicking its radio button changes the processor speed field from slow to maximum. Default is Automatic which shows a grayed out slow. (This can also be adjusted using the Custom option to select slow, medium, maximum.)
I'm unsure of what changes this makes within the system, but running the custom option on maximum speed has shaved 64% off the times for the first two units run under this setting (from 50 to 18 hrs). And WU number 3 is projected to come in at slightly less than 18. The ARs are .437, .655 completed; and .417 in process.
I don't know of anyone else running one of these evil machines, but if you have one or something similar, check out IBM (http://www.ibm.com) and find the Utilities program. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has this kind of luck.
HTH
My accursed laptop from work was the second machine I brought into my little crunch-fest. It's an IBM Thinkpad 600E and as noted in my sig it's a P2 300. The beast has been giving me 50 hr average times, lowest was 36, highest 70.
Some months ago I downloaded the ThinkPad Utilities program from IBM's website. Played with it a little hoping to get lucky and find something that would make for faster crunching, but no luck. Until three days ago.
I have a lot of dead time when riding to a jobsite (NY this week), so I started playing with settings in the program. Finally noticed something noted as Processor Speed under the Power Management menu, Power Mode tab. There is a setting marked "High Performance". Clicking its radio button changes the processor speed field from slow to maximum. Default is Automatic which shows a grayed out slow. (This can also be adjusted using the Custom option to select slow, medium, maximum.)
I'm unsure of what changes this makes within the system, but running the custom option on maximum speed has shaved 64% off the times for the first two units run under this setting (from 50 to 18 hrs). And WU number 3 is projected to come in at slightly less than 18. The ARs are .437, .655 completed; and .417 in process.
I don't know of anyone else running one of these evil machines, but if you have one or something similar, check out IBM (http://www.ibm.com) and find the Utilities program. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has this kind of luck.
HTH