On Saturday 31 May 2003 9:58 am, David Bottrill wrote:
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 04:19, John LeMay wrote:
It would be interesting to see what, if anything, all of you have in common
So far it seems distributed.net and the SETI client have been mentioned. Both are obviously CPU intensive.
Took a while for it to hit me when I wondered why my laptop battery didn't last more than a few minutes. Between the distributed.net client and my wireless nic I was lucky to get 15-20 minutes on a Thinkpad T20.
I was talking to a Linux Guru friend last night, he was suggesting that the Seti client is optimised to run in L2 cache, so when other apps need a slice of time, the Seti code will need to be flushed from the cache and re-loaded later this could cause the poor performance.
Same problem on a 2.4ghz Intel P4 running StarOffice 6.0
It would be interesting to pin the poor performance of OO down, maybe it's a problem with AMD cpus ? has anybody experienced this problem with Intel cpus?
I have tried OO 1.1 on my Dell CPI Laptop, I haven't tried it running with Seti although I get the same slowness if I run KWiFiManager.
I have downloaded the OO 1.2 Beta, and this seems to work a bit better with Seti although OO is still slow to respond.
-- David Bottrill
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