Re: slowing down on windows XP
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg41555] Re: slowing down on windows XP
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 05:46:32 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
- References: <bakiu2$l7b$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, this is affected by low memory. Windows start with working on memory pages in your swap file and this need allmost no CPU power bu a loooooong time. Regards Jens Jan Schmedes wrote: > > hello, > > i'm using mathematica 4.0 on a laptop with windows XP. > While calculating hugher data sets it sometimes happens that mathematica > switches from the use of 99% of the CPU to something like 4% not going up > again, such the calculation needs to much time.If i abort the calculation > then and close mathematica the PC behaves very slowly. > Could this be an effect of bad programming or is there something wrong > with mathematica 4.0 and Windows XP. > > Thanks for help > > Jan Schmedes