Mike, On Saturday 19 November 2005 19:55, Mike wrote:
On November 19, 2005 12:27 pm, Mike wrote:
I have a dual boot machine. When I checks the stats on the seti page I noticed that they were different when running XP, or SuSE. The machine is mostly idle. Is anyone else running setiathome? Any thoughts on boosting perfromance?
Measured floating point speed 733.63 million ops/sec Measured integer speed 1895.05 million ops/sec % of time BOINC client is running 58.6482 %
Just finished an upgraded to 9.3 and not the change I was expecting
Measured floating point speed 676.59 million ops/sec Measured integer speed 2025 million ops/sec % of time BOINC client is running 59.1031 %
What change did you expect and why did you expect any change at all? On how many runs were each of these reports based? How tightly did you control the mix of other processes running concurrently? Judging from those numbers, I'd suspect that they are within the range of normal variation and in fact reflect no real difference. Keep in mind, too, that cache utilization is a critical performance factor. Any other processes executing concurrently compete for cache use and degrade the performance of the BOINC client. The bottom line is that I don't think you can really infer any change based on those observations. Randall Schulz