[Gate-users] About the speed of the Gate

[张春晖]

Hello Bryan,
      I am using Gate V6.1 under native Linux environment, not virtual
machine. I think the reason lies in the large size (more than 10G) of
the output file. Thanks for your reply. Best!--Chunhui Zhang


2014-03-04 21:44 GMT+08:00, Bryan McIntosh <mcintoshster at gmail.com>:
> 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
>