Re: one MB and two MB L2 cache processors

Hurrah wrote:

"f/f george" <george@yourplace.com> wrote in message
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Sure, up the numbers in SetiDriver to reflect 1 unit for each 512 meg
of ram. If you have 2 cpus you can do 2 at one time. If each cpu has
an L2 cache of 1 meg you can do 4 at 1 time. If each cpu has an L2
cache of 2 meg than each cpu can do 4 at 1 time.
This is set in the setting "maximum processes". You MUST also have at
least that number of units in your "desired cache size" also. It is
preferred to have double the number of currently running units in the
"desired cache size".

The key is the L2 cache size, if you only have 512 meg than you are
limited to only running one unit per cpu. If you have 1 meg of L2
cache than you can double it to 2 per cpu at one time. If you have 2
meg of L2 cache, per cpu, than you can run 4 units at one time per
cpu. You MUST be running the CLI version for this to work too. The
Screen Saver version will not do this.

Hi f/f George,

Thanks for the response.

Trouble is:

1) I *am* running the CLI SETI Classic, controlled by SETI Driver and using
Windows 2000 Advanced Server

2) I have *already* set the max processes to 4 (twice the number of 1Meg L2
P3/Xeon 700Mhz CPU's on the mobo)

3) I *already* have the cache set to 8 (double the number of processes)

So, in theory, I should be getting 4 WU's worked on at any one time.

But I'm not.

I only get (on average) 8 WU's per day, which is equal to 2 simultaneous
processes at a rate of 6+hours per WU.

Over to you again.

H.

Hi
It is probably because Windows 2000 (All versions) doesn't support hyper-threading.....

http://www.intel.com/support/platform/ht/os.htm?iid=ipp_htm+os&

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