Optimal Settings for complex Calculations

[xorlosch]

I'm currently running Eviews with the default settings. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of time to run complex programs on my dual core 2,2 GHZ with 2GB RAM. The task manager states that there are also only 50% of the CPU in use. Is there any possibility to optimize Eviews default settings for my machine?

[startz]

I'm currently running Eviews with the default settings. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of time to run complex programs on my dual core 2,2 GHZ with 2GB RAM. The task manager states that there are also only 50% of the CPU in use. Is there any possibility to optimize Eviews default settings for my machine?

The 50% CPU probably indicates that one core is running EViews full out, while the other core is mostly idle. You might be able to get a small gain by starting two copies of EViews and running programs on each. Less than a doubling of speed, though.

[xorlosch]

Concerning the CPU usage you are right. I think Eviews can not use both cores for its calculations. But can you somehow change the RAM size Eviews is using. This might speed things up a little, don't you think so?

[EViews Gareth]

In general EViews uses whatever RAM Windows gives it.

The only way, really, to speed up your calculations is to try and improve the efficiency of your programs themselves.

[smr01]

There is a lot of system junk running on core0 of most systems. Windows XP does not load balance well. Vista is better. Windows Server is awesome in this regard. There is a way to force EViews to run on core1 using the affinity setting in Windows XP/Vista/Server. The chances are that EViews will have core1 to itself. Tom's Hardware has a neat little program to do it automatically. Here is the article: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ban ... k,815.html . It might help.