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Re: SETI@Home?
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Date: 
Mon, 31 May 1999 00:01:17 GMT
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 1999 23:59:47 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
wrote:

On thing I have noticed - on the same hardware, the Linux version
STOMPS the Windows version.  On my P2-450 it takes me about a day to
complete a unit under Windows.  On the same machine running Linux it
takes about 9 hours.

Yeah. My Celeron Mendocino 450 Win98 takes in the order of 26 hours or
so as well, but it definitely varies a lot with the particular unit
I'm running.

Yeah, I hadn't really thought of that.

One thing I'm going to regret is having to stop the SETI thing from
running on my full-time Linux box at home.  That's where I plan on
running the EveryAuction script for a good while, and I don't know of
a way to make the SETI program take anything less than ALL of the CPU
under Linux.  I'd settle for giving it half if I could set it with a
switch or something, but I can't have it bringing the machine to a
crawl if several people hit it at once.

Good news is I'll be able to give it the full 128mb it started with
next week.  I just had my friend at a computer store order a 128mb
dimm at his cost - $90.  So 256 for my personal box and 128 for the
Linux box.  Then I'll be able to run Redhat 6, X, and VMware and give
128 to NT under it and 128 to Linux itself.

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(...) As far as I can tell on my windows box, it only uses the not-needed-right-now cycles. Linux should _easily_ do that, as process prioritization is built into it. I know the linux rc5 client is permanently niced to 10, or something like that. (I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Yeah. My Celeron Mendocino 450 Win98 takes in the order of 26 hours or so as well, but it definitely varies a lot with the particular unit I'm running. Jasper (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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