ET wrote:
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Now, I recently got a 2.4 MHz Athlon with linux FC 2. What a disappoinment: a wu takes 8 to 9 hours to process. What a disappointment!

What have I done wrong? If I can't fix it, I'll never make it to top-50k. -Seriously, is there a problem with the linux implementation of the classic 3.0.8 (or 3.0.9, the linux box is at another site and I

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The versions of s@h classic cli that were compiled for linux did not have all the compiler optimisations that were included for the windows versions. This may have been due to whatever compiler options were selected, or just due to the different compilers used.

The overall fastest combination goes to Linux... You just need to run the windows optimised win-nt-cli under wine on linux. Wine can give better performance than the original Windows environment it replaces! (Wine is not an emulator (:-))


However, at this late stage, you may as well jump onboard Boinc.

Happy crunchin',
Martin