i have noticed only a few minutes difference between 3.03 and 3.08.  since
the farm runs whether i am around or not
the individual systems grind out the wu's. occassionally i will check each
system and calculate the wu/times...
only 10 minutes difference on a PII 400...not alot when
you consider its taking 16hrs per wu
so i'll sit with 3.08....
i love these discussions

franco
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"~misfit~" <misfit61nz@yahoomung.co.nz> wrote

f/f george wrote:

I am not
talking about the connection to SetiQueue, I am talking about how you
actually connect to the internet. What the programmers did was fix the
proxy problem but then failed to compress the program during the
compile process. Result...it runs slower than version 3.03, but no
hackers can get in.

How much slower? I've returned a few units from a couple of my machines
since the change and they don't seem any faster. Maybe I'll have to wait

for

a larger representitive sample to see the difference?

V3.08 worked out at about 15% slower overall than v3.03 for me but that

was

a while back, so maybe they re-compiled it..? Hmmmn, the v3.08 .exe is

dated

March 28th 2003 on the alien ftp server, so I don't think it's been
re-compiled. I wouldn't worry about it, you'll see it's much faster in the
longer term for sure - that's why most 'dedicated crunchers' are still

using

it. ;-)

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...
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