Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:49:58 -0400 From: "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com> To: crh@outpost.co.nz Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SETI@home has teams now! Message-ID: <374A0FD6.B2162D40@borg.com> References: <19990525023006.9612E1505D@hub.freebsd.org>
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Craig Harding wrote: > > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > > "Mark S. Reichman" wrote: > > > > > I'm there.. My average CPU time per work unit is 25 hours. > > > Im running a K6-200 FreeBSD 3.2-Stable > > > Daniel O'connor's is only 10 hrs/work unit. He must have at least > > > a 300 Mhz machine. > > > > A note on FreeBSD's efficiency: My P2-350 spends almost 38 hours per > > unit when under W98 and that's with nothing else running. The last > > work unit took my P166 running 3.1R just under 30 hours. That's > > both disgusting and hilarious. > What I can't figure out yet is the PII - 233 which has so far taken > 140 hrs to complete 93% of a work unit. It's got 64MB of RAM so it > shouldn't be slow, and it's running as a screen saver with nothing > else happening on the machine - obviously this is a windreck machine > as well. > I am not windows weenie, but cant you control how much CPU is used "in the backgroud" on a windows machine? Prolly in Control Panel somewhere or each process has its own settings. Maybe your background CPU usage setting is low. I'm taking a guess here. I only play quake on my Windows machine dont really use it that much > I'm not sure if it's breaking the rules to have the couple of windows > machines here participating in TeamFreeBSD. I dont know of any rules, but ... :) > BTW, what "category" is TeamFreeBSD? A club? > > -- C. > -- > Craig Harding Head of Postproduction, Outpost Digital Media Ltd > "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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