On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:15:30 +1200, "~misfit~"
<misfit61nz@yahoo-mungo.co.nz> wrote:

Alan Woodford wrote:

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:12:37 +1200, "~misfit~"
<misfit61nz@yahoo-mungo.co.nz> wrote:

Linda wrote:

"~misfit~" <misfit61nz@yahoo-mungo.co.nz> wrote in message
news:tbsWc.16972$N77.674198@news.xtra.co.nz...

My credit has gone up from 8,680 where it's been stuck for the last
month-and-a-half or so to 8,919 overnight!!!!!

Finally, it seems we're getting somewhere. I've had at least two
machines running 24/7 for that time, I hope that's not all the
credit I'm going to get for all that work.

Yeehaaa! On the road again.

On another note, I see quite a few high suffixes in my WU cache,
some _7's,
mostly _5's and _6's. There must have been a hell of a lot of
results lost in the 'crashes' considering a _7 is the eighth time
the unit has been sent
out and they only need three valid results to verify a WU and give
credit for it. That's a lot of CPU power/electricity/fossil-fuels
wasted world-wide. LOL, "SETI programme responsible for global
warming" headlines anyone?
--
~misfit~

I'm pleased it works for someone. I'm still not holding my breath.

The credit is accruing, however getting more WUs is getting to be
impossible again.

<grin>

The problem I have is that it is only my main cruncher that can't get
units :-)

The 1.5 thunderbird and 2.4 celery have about 3 days of WUs, the 3.0
P4 has had 2 new units since early yesterday.

Yeah, isn't it always the way? I have two machines on virtually all the
time. When the credit started climbing and they started getting WUs I fired
up two more machines. One of them got one WU the other still has none after
24 hours.

Out of curiosity, approximately how long does the Celery take per WU? I have
a Tualatin Celery OC'ed to 1.6Ghz and it takes just under 6 hours on
average, although it's estimated at 4:10. It is playing mp3s all day which
puts day-time units up around the six hour mark and night time units are
around the 5:45 mark. I wondered how it compares to P4-based Celerys.

the celery takes something over 7 hours/unit, although the cahe
estimate is only 5.

Did I say I hate the currentish celerys?

While we're at it, how long does the Tbird and the P4 take?

The T-bird takes about 4:45, running at 1.54 GHz rather than the 1.4
it is supposed to :-)

the P4 is running somewhere about 3:30 or so (with no units to send, I
can't check easily), but doing 2 units at a time, when it can get them
LOL.

My main machine, a Tbred B XP Athlon 1800+ at 2.1Ghz on a 200FSB takes 2:42
on average. Quite fast I thought. Less than 10 minutes slower than the
finace's XP3200+.

If I didn't know better, I'd think someone was out to get me!

They are!

Thank heavens, and Mike Ober, for Seti Driver, so that the beast just
switches over to classic when Boinc runs out.

Mike has done an excellent job for sure.

The two machines I just started are running XP and 98SE. The one with XP
will give all CPU to BOINC with SETI Driver running, however the one with
98SE only gives 70-odd-% to BOINC, the other 30ish to SETI classic. Both set
on 'idle' priority. It's a worry. ;-) I don't have enough XP licences to go
around.

Still, at least my Boinc credit is moving the right way again.

Yep, there is that. I'm only just out of the top 1,000 world-wide. (1,223rd
actually), I wanna get in there damn it!! <g>.

When I checked a few minutes ago, I was 854th, with 12,464.03 of total
credit :-)

I don't think that position will last, once the loonies with the big
farms move over to Boinc :-) :-)

All the best,

Alan Woodford

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