Subject: Re: Boinc Released
From: "RD" <rd@dragon.net>
Date: 25/06/2004, 09:10
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Hi Ed,
"Ed" <@> wrote in message
news:1088149899.7681.0@spandrell.news.uk.clara.net...
"RD" <rd@dragon.net> wrote:
R> only crunching 2 WU per day then the 20 WU per day cruncher is going
R> to be waiting a damm long time for his/her credits:-/

I thought so too.  Looking at the specs of the other 2 machines crunching
my WUs is very scary.  I am running a P II 233 Win2000 box whilst all
of the others are P4s in the 2.4 to 3.2 GHz range.  But it has been
interesting to see that I'm not actually letting the side down as I
thought
I might.  My first 3 WUs go something like this ("S" = sent, "W" =
waiting;
my machine is "C"):

A    B    C
S    W    S
W   W    S
S    S    W (82% done)

Pretty surprising, huh?  I haven't got credit for the first 2 WUs because
my P II 233 is still waiting for the P4s.  Perhaps they have already done
their WUs, but it is still sitting on their disks.  Or they have used a
large
cache...

Anythings possible:-) But as others have posted it seems to level out over
time. However I thought the cache size was determined by boinc after the
speed test.. Can one manually set the cache size?

Cheers,
           RD