Fritters
10-20-2009, 03:00 PM
I've configured HEM/Postgres using the info here and 2+2 to give me the best performance out of my system (ie. opacity, defragging, vacumming, purging, postgres configuration changes, etc...) and I can easily run 18 tables without difficulty (pokerstars, tableninja, xpadder, and HEM w/ HUD). However, I get a noticeable slowdown at 19 and it seems to grow exponentially from there (nearly 0.5 second delay w/ 20 tables). Ideally I'd like to play 25 and up to 30 at some times and I'm not sure where the bottleneck in my system is:
AMD Athlon X2 (socket AM3) OC to ~3.2 GHz
4 GB DDR3 RAM (~ 3 GB effective)
512 MB ATI Card (exact model escapes me, but I don't think this is the problem)
7200 rpm WD HD
While running a full 20 tables, my processor has each core running ~50% and less than 2GB of RAM is being used. I'm under the assumption my HD is limiting me now so I guess my question is:
1.) Is my HD speed the bottleneck here?
2.) Would adding another drive in Raid 0 give me enough performance increase to play 30 tables?
3.) Any obscure options I can try before buying new hardware?
tl;dr
~ Fritters
AMD Athlon X2 (socket AM3) OC to ~3.2 GHz
4 GB DDR3 RAM (~ 3 GB effective)
512 MB ATI Card (exact model escapes me, but I don't think this is the problem)
7200 rpm WD HD
While running a full 20 tables, my processor has each core running ~50% and less than 2GB of RAM is being used. I'm under the assumption my HD is limiting me now so I guess my question is:
1.) Is my HD speed the bottleneck here?
2.) Would adding another drive in Raid 0 give me enough performance increase to play 30 tables?
3.) Any obscure options I can try before buying new hardware?
tl;dr
~ Fritters