Am I mad ... ?

[Charles Law]

I am running VS2003 on an 800 MHz (600 MHz overclocked to 800) Pentium with
1 Gb of memory, and the IDE, build and application execution is painfully
slow.

Am I mad to be trying to run it on such a tired old machine, or should I
expect more? What spec machines are the rest of you guys running with, and
do you find the whole thing slow.

Charles

 

[Mike]

Hi at the office I am running VS2003 on P4 2.4 with 512 mb ram and as
expected it run very well. And at home I run it on a P3 1GHZ with 512 mb ram
it does run slower but I still think it runs fine. Both are running on
Windows XP Pro. Those are the only machines I have run it on.

 

[Charles Law]

I am running on a P4, 1,3GHz and 1 GB of memory.

Running on Win2K, and it works fine

Running on WinXP, and it works fine also Maybe your Windows is slow anyway,
due to all kind of installations in the past. Windows registry is one big
shit actually...

(Reinstallation of Win may be helpfull...)

Grtz,

Rob

 

[Charles Law]

Hi Rob

I think you may be right. I am running Win2k plus all the SP3 and hot fix
stuff, and the whole thing seems to be running out of steam. My registry is
currently up to 79 Mb, and I have a 1.5 Gb swap file on a different drive.
Even so, VS seems to really thrash the hard disk every now and then. In
particular, if I leave the IDE open for a while without using it, when I
next try to do the simplest of things the cursor disappears for two minutes
and the disk goes bananas. I think - but I'm not sure - that it is thrashing
the swap file, but I don't know why.

Looks like I will have to re-install :-(.

Cheers

Charles

 

[Colin Young]

I used to run on a 500MHz Celeron/512MB RAM. Project compile time > 60s

Now I use 2.4GHz P4-m/512MB RAM. Same project compiles in < 13s and the IDE
(along with most everything else) is much more responsive.

In short, it will run faster if you get a faster machine. It's up to you to
decide if your pain is worth saving the money.

Colin

 

[Daniel]

I expect over clocking by 200MHz can't be a good thing stability wise!

 

[Charles Law]

Yes, indeed. I bought the processor when 600 MHz chips were £150 and 800 MHz
chips were £450. Incredibly, I could buy a new machine for that now, and it
would be 3 times faster (well, not really, but you know what I mean).

Charles