[Gate-users] About the speed of the Gate

[Bryan McIntosh]

Hi Chunhui,

Are you using the pre-made vGATE package? It's possible that the slow
performance is due to the virtual hard drive expanding itself dynamically
during the simulation. The virtual machine's hard drive is set to a maximum
of 20 GB, but as you probably noticed the image file for vGATE is far less
than that size. As the virtual machine's disk usage increases, the drive
image is re-sized; this can slow performance significantly, especially if
there's a high read/write rate or if you are running it on a 5200 RPM hard
drive like on a laptop or a low power hard drive like the Western Digital
"Green" line.

If you're already using a relatively fast hard drive, one way to avoid this
problem is to grow the virtual drive to its maximum size; consider copying
some large files to the virtual machine, perhaps? For best performance,
however, you'll need to install GATE in a native Linux environment.

Hope this helps!

-Bryan

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Hello Simon
    I meant that the realistic running time of Gate (the time is set
to 2s) is longer than double the realistic running time (the time is
set to 1s) , by the way, I am using the root as the output. Thanks a
lot! Best.---Chunhui Zhang
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