Hello,
what is an smart setup of an ocz-ssd 120GB, so that mathematica 8 speeds up?
OS: OpenSuse 11.3 64Bit (Dualboot with XP 64)
RAM: 8 GB
AMD X4 3.4 GHrz
HHD: 2 TB
SSD: 120 GB
App: Mathematica 8 and Databases
GPU: 36 Shader 512 MB
What partitions are useful?
SWAP: 60GB
TMP: 20GB
APP: 20GB
DB-Indices: 20GB
Which file-format performs the best?
Do I need any OCZ specific driver for Opensuse 11.3?
How can use the Swap and tmp Partion also to spee up XP?
Greetings
In my opinion partition swap is well for you!!
Use top, system monitors and free to watch the memory and disk utilization when running Mathematica 8.
I’d think it’s going as good as it gets on the AMD X4 3.4Ghz.
Mathematica 8 is cpu, math coprocessor intensive not disk or memory utilizers.
Otherwise a 60G swap sounds excessive, I’d allocate the most of the SSD to the DB-indices to speed up database access.
The command “free” will show how much total memory is utilized including swap is used during processing.
My guess, windows is disk intensive so its paging file and system files would do well on the SSD as C:/ 60Gb.