Posts by Stephen Uitti

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Long work units. (Message 967) Posted 26 Jul 2020 by Stephen Uitti Post: I have a 4 core machine. I have a 4 core unit waiting to run - Ready to start (4 CPUs). What i hear is that these units really churn the disk, and this isn't SSD, it's spinning magnets. But this is a Linux system with 16 GB RAM (i was going for 8, but 16 was the same price...). If i create, say, a 5 GB RAM disk and get work units to somehow use it, it could really speed them up. Anyone do this sort of thing? I'm not hearing this literally. I've never been in the room when a unit was crunching. I've only run short units to date, and they use just under 5 GB disk, i think. Anyway, i've had a unit abort in under 2 hours having run out of time. Stephen.