always been in 100%
even got some sunblades at work crunching 
I wonder if that old K6-2-500 will run linux 
/edit @Karloss… I’m sure I could make use of that too, obv 1st dibs is taken 
Question to ALL here… wasn’t there a seti service install kicking around that named the service “SYSTEM IDLE PROCESS” or something ? :devil:
Originally posted by Spaceboy
I wonder if that old K6-2-500 will run linux
Should do m8, probably run better than Win98 for something that “old”
OK. changed my BOINC test machine over. Should be good for another 12/day.
Who was supposed to send me an old knackered K7S5A so I could strip the capacitors from it? As soon as I get that I’ll have another XP1600+ online
no idea, but i still have the RAM you wanted for when you get the capacitors sorted 
slacker! :D
Well now I’m working this machine gets left alone 
I’ll try clocking it higher too :eek:
Watch out for a boom in the valleys boyos
Set my new Athlon 2.2 running 24/7, getting about 4WUs/day. Will chuck another lump of coal in the floppy drive.
Originally posted by Droid
Set my new Athlon 2.2 running 24/7, getting about 4WUs/day. Will chuck another lump of coal in the floppy drive.
Is that a 2.2GHz processor? If so, you should get around 8 to 10 WUs per day out of it. My 2.24GHz processes a WU in 2h15min on average.
Well I’ve just upgraded two machines in my fleet and added a fresh 3rd.
Time to put pedal to the metal for a few weeks :headbang:
Right, if U lot are in I’ll drop a couple of the slower boxes, sell the chips and put faster ones in. Athlon XP ripple effect anyone?
right - on the scrounge…
I’ve a k7s5a with mem, 1Gb hard drive, and not so long back I was a bit generous with all my spares…
WANTED - cpu - anything up to 2400 I believe, duron whatever it dont matter, as long as it works in the k7s5a.
a graphics card would be handy as well
then it’ll be another never turned off till it dies machine
DT.
Got a job delivering pizzas… not much cash but it may keep me from shutting my boxen down. Best I can offer is to O/C my AMD 2200XP and see what happens.
Originally posted by celticskyhawk
Got a job delivering pizzas… not much cash but it may keep me from shutting my boxen down. Best I can offer is to O/C my AMD 2200XP and see what happens.
Now THAT’S dedication!! 
Originally posted by Egad
Now THAT’S dedication!!
Ditto! :hail:
@DT - I’ve got an unlocked Duron 800 I’ve just swapped out thats doing nothing. I was going to hang on to it for testing but if you want it, it’s yours.
Okay, I kinda got by having to shut down my wife’s laptop and office machine. I just replaced my XP2100 with and XP2500 and will mess with some oc’ing this weekend. Should be fairly easy enough on this ASUS A7V board. That should make up for some of the lost daily dumpage. 
One question for some you of Linux users…why on God’s green earth would you want to run Seti in wine??? That is counter productive!! I tried and saw no performance increase…in fact, I found quite the opposite was true…there was actually a performance decrease. If your CLI isn’t performing…change the nice setting or shut down some unneeded tasks. I have no problems with the x client and pumping out a work unit about every 3.5 hours with my current set-up.
I don’t know who started that the Seti Client was “optimized for Windows” and wrote the command line versions for other OS’es as an afterthought, but that is a bunch of hogwash!:rolleyes: : Most of the development was done on a BSD system as I understand
Derrick
@DT - got some durons here 900-1200ish and some old graphics cards. no drivers etc but XP gets round that easily enough. any use?
Originally posted by O’Borg
[B]Ditto! :hail:@DT - I’ve got an unlocked Duron 800 I’ve just swapped out thats doing nothing. I was going to hang on to it for testing but if you want it, it’s yours. [/B]
Much appreciated O’Borg, thanks for the offer but if its your only spare and Radar can provide a 1200 then I think thats a better safeguard for unit production
Originally posted by Radar
@DT - got some durons here 900-1200ish and some old graphics cards. no drivers etc but XP gets round that easily enough. any use?
A 1200=Highest bidder so far that really would be top notch ! Any old graphics card should do - I mean with a 1Gb drive it aint going to do a lot apart from crunch 
Shall we sort via PM
TPR-Rules I think I may have a couple of HD’s spare after all is said and done - I’ll report back on the seti push.
DT.
Originally posted by Egad
Is that a 2.2GHz processor? If so, you should get around 8 to 10 WUs per day out of it. My 2.24GHz processes a WU in 2h15min on average.
Yep! Thats the one, but I’ve only just set it running SETI CLi. SHould get a few more out of it now hopefully.
Originally posted by Islander
[B]Okay, I kinda got by having to shut down my wife’s laptop and office machine. I just replaced my XP2100 with and XP2500 and will mess with some oc’ing this weekend. Should be fairly easy enough on this ASUS A7V board. That should make up for some of the lost daily dumpage.One question for some you of Linux users…why on God’s green earth would you want to run Seti in wine??? That is counter productive!! I tried and saw no performance increase…in fact, I found quite the opposite was true…there was actually a performance decrease. If your CLI isn’t performing…change the nice setting or shut down some unneeded tasks. I have no problems with the x client and pumping out a work unit about every 3.5 hours with my current set-up.
Derrick [/B]
Sorry Derrick but if you are only getting 3.5 hrs out of a XP2500 & LINUX CLI you are sadly mistaken, I have a Barton under Wine doing 2hr WUs. I used to get those kinds of speeds with a paly 1800 under wine.
You might want to look at the Benchmark pages and the WINCLI is faster and even FASTER than WINDOWS while running under WINE!
Originally posted by DoubleTop
a graphics card would be handy as well
I still owe you a gfx from that gf3 deal m8, PM yer addy.
SB
Originally posted by MAOJC
[B]Sorry Derrick but if you are only getting 3.5 hrs out of a XP2500 & LINUX CLI you are sadly mistaken, I have a Barton under Wine doing 2hr WUs. I used to get those kinds of speeds with a paly 1800 under wine.You might want to look at the Benchmark pages and the WINCLI is faster and even FASTER than WINDOWS while running under WINE! [/B]
First, I must apologize. I was on my anti-windoze kick last night when I replied.
Second, for the amount tasks that this box does (it is basically a server for my network but not entirely), I think 3.5 hours per w/u was very respectable, and that was with the 2100, the average with the 2500 is around 3 hours. This particular box handles a lot of cron jobs on my network (backing up files, sorting databases and such) so it is quite heavily used.
I have very limited experience with wine as I really have no need for it. When I tried the Seti under wine I was running an Athlon 900 and Mandrake 8.0. I wasn’t very impressed with the results. That could have been with the distro though. I know wine has much improved over the last year or so. Maybe I shall try to set up wine in Suse 8.2 and give it another shot
Derrick
