Seti@home & murc, part 6

[DentyCracker]

Yippee, into the top 100 with a few underpowered machines. Finally getting those to Celeron 500 and a P-III 550E next week for the office, and guess who is the system administrator. I'll have those puppies running Seti 24/7 (as soon as we get them on UPS)
BTW the group ain't doing too bad.

[Paddy]

a WU is 3/5 hrs?
My petit PII300 thakes 22hrs to do a WU?

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a rather confused Patrick

[Maggi]

Hi Paddy,

the difference is caused mostly by my full speed 2nd level cache and probably also a little my faster system bus.

I OCed my Celery to 500MHz, hence the L2 cache runs also at 500MHz. Your P2-300 (Deschute .35 micron) uses its L2 cache only at half of the clock speed, i.e. in your case 150 MHz ...

I'd suggest the you get rid of that plastic cage surrounding your CPU, grab soem decent heatsinks and fans and crank it up !



Cheers,
Maggi

[Maggi]

No sweat, Paddy ...

That's about normal for a P2-300.

My OCed Celeron333A @ 500MHz takes ~8-9 hours/WU

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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

[Laurie]

Hi Paddy,

My PII 300 at work using the screen saver version takes 14-15 hrs/wu. My wife's K6II 300 at home takes 18-20 hrs/wu. Neither is not overclocked. No idea why yours would be so much slower. I also run a couple of Unix/Solaris versions at work which take much more than 30 hrs/wu. So much for the wonderful world of Sparc pizza boxes.

Laurie

[Paddy]

well i believe that my CPU is one of the older ones. I cant even overclock it to 333Mhz!
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Patrick

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Creative soundblaster AWE32, Hauppauge Win/TV, Ms Sidewinder GamePad, a Twain complient scanner, er... and a floppy drive.

[DentyCracker]

Hi Thundrchez

[DentyCracker]

Bye Thundrchez

[MegaManX4]

Hey guys,

To have a PII-300 running a WU with 22hrs is really , let me say, not fast.
I got a PII-266 running for some months now, and it only needs 12-13 hrs for a WU.
It runs under NT 4.0, the fastest (Windows)Platform for SETI.

Mega

[Paddy]

So how crap is my system then?

[jsb]

Anyone notised that we are now nr63 total. all groups!

I have to start those unused computers.

Stefan

[Laurie]

Sorry, I forgot to mention my PII 300 at work is running NT4. Mega, it is probably slower than your 266 because of all the work (nudge,nudge,wink,wink) related stuff it has to do for 8 hours a day.



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Laurie
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The more I know, the more I know I don't know.

[Ees]

> Anyone notised that we are now nr63 total. all groups!

Cool! They finally enabled the All Groups Top 100 (well, 200 actually)! I'll start gathering stats ASAP.

Martin

[Zaphod]

Paddy remember to shot down all programs in the background that using your cpu-time, and use the text only client.
This should give a boost in seti-performance.
My PII-450 at work uses 9h with graficcclient and 8,5h with text-only

[MegaManX4]

Hey Laurie,

The PII-266 is my , aehm ...WinNT "testcomputer". It really only works on SETI 24hrs a day. But those other comps here are all celerons, most of them 333 ones, and they only need 12-14 hrs a WU. And that is with working on them. Something must be wrong with your comp. I hope you haven't have a Screensaver running! Even this SETI thing steals CPU Power. If so, try blank screen as Screensaver.
Or do you have lower than 64MB Ram?

Mega