RM4s faster than RM5s???

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Daniel Stipe (dstipe++at++indy3.gstone.com)
Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:42:42 -0800 (PST)

Greetings Performers,

I have two systems with an unexpected performance difference:

One system is faster than the other.

Both systems are RE2s with 512 Mb of RAM.

The fast system has 4 x 200MHz processors.
The slow system has 4 x 250MHz processors.

The fast system has 2 RM4s.
The slow system has 4 RM5s.

I believe both systems have comperable swap space (I'll confirm this).

The difference in speed appears to happen during the draw cycle.

Are there default settings for the RM5 that would impact speed?
Texture paging perhaps? - I'm loading a 4k x 4k x 1byte image (800% of 4Mb).
If the RM5 pages in larger chunks that might slow things down (particularly
to 4 boards?).

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Dan Stipe

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