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<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">The em64t is equipped with 8MB of ram. Don't know if this can be a</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">bottleneck with 256 waters.</font></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>well 8MB RAM is for sure a bottleneck ;)</div><div>8GB should not, but, well 6 Hours for 10 steps... maybe it did swap, and if you swap then everything is over, do check, if memory consumption is more than your physical memory the cpu usage drops drastically, again in top you should see this.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Use a smaller system, if this is the problem, the 32 water should already scale well...</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>ciao</div><div>Fawzi</div></body></html>