Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 07:46:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SETI@home has teams now! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905250743580.522-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19990525023006.9612E1505D@hub.freebsd.org>
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Actually the large number discrepancy is due to the fact that the SETI@HOME people switched the clients in the middle, they allowed 0.7 clients to download work units, and when they finished them, told them to get the 1.1 client, and never took the work units. Our team had a ton of them. Not to mention the fact we had a bunch of high powered SGI machines working on SETI too, and they neglected to compile an SGI mips version. -Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking "And if my owners let me have some free time some day..... With all good intention I would probably run away..... clutching the short straw." -Marillion, "That Time of the Night", _Clutching_at_Straws_ ___________________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 25 May 1999, 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. > > Yeah, my Celeron 416MHz at home under Windreck (it's the games > machine, can't you guess?) takes about 33 hrs per work unit, my P166 > here running 3.1 (it's idprio'd, but admittedly it's a lightly loaded > machine at present) takes a similar 28-30 hrs. > > 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'm not sure if it's breaking the rules to have the couple of windows > machines here participating in TeamFreeBSD. I'm temporarily top of > the team list, but I'm sure that won't last once someone with a real > room of machines joins in. What impresses me is the people on the > overall top users list who have 1900 outstanding work units but only > 200 received. Obviously there's 1500-2000 machines across most of a > university all running the screen saver under the single email > address. > > 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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