~misfit~ wrote:

John Donson wrote:

~misfit~ wrote:

John Donson wrote:

~misfit~ wrote:

It's fine now. Just today all machines have full caches. I'm
just installing 98SE on a Celeron 900, might as well get that
crunching as well. --

Ah, thanks. I was just wondering if they can keep the work coming
now.

Well I can't get any BOINC units for the Celeron, hopefully it's
just the servers catching up with the backlog. I put Easy SETI CLI
on it as well so it's crunching something. That's it's only reason
for being after all. 2GB HDD, no CD-ROM (now I've installed), 8MB
AGP. Hopefully it won't pull too much power. Once it picks up some
BOINC units I'll stop SETI Driver/Spy until needed again.
Hopefully never. :-)

I'm getting "no work from project" now.

Same here.

Why did you take out the cd-rom? To save power?

Yep. It's not needed now anyway, if I need to install anything I can
use any one of about 6 optical drives shared on the network.

IS W98 SE stable enough for a machine that is always on? Do you not
have to reboot it every couple of days?

I have another machine that is running BOINC on 98SE and it runs
fine for days on end. I never *have* to reboot it. Now and then I
turn it off to save electricity if money is tight for a week or
something.

I've got a 200 mhz MMX laying about here somewhere. Any idea how
long that machine will take to do a WU?

I'd say 20+ hours at a guess, maybe more. A Celeron 900 takes
about 8 hours on average.

Hmmm, I'll let that 200 mhz machine run boinc, just to see what
happens.

I'd like to know how it goes. I have an overclocked 166MMX (As if
I'd run anything that wasn't overclocked. <g> It's only clocked to
188Mhz though, 75Mhz FSB. Not the greatest mobo, very limited, an
old AT.) but I don't have a spare port on my ethernet switch to give
it internet access. Methinks I need a switch with more ports.

Well I hooked it up. I'm surprised I got that old 10 bit networkcard
installed so quickly.

Anyway, it says it is going to take a little over 35 hrs.