Re: What the hell is up with BOINC?
Subject: Re: What the hell is up with BOINC?
From: Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister
Date: 03/09/2005, 15:04
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Am Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:32:14 +0000 schrieb Eric:


 I'm assuming Boinc for Linux
is probably very streamlined...


The truth is: it is not. Performance of the Windoze clients is way better
than of the standard Linux clients. The BOINC people seem to focus on the
Windows platform which makes sense as the vast majority of BOINC
participants use this. 

Still, there are some (outdated but working) optimized Linux clients
around that do a proper job. Right now, I'm running the optimited Linux
core client V4.19 by F. Perry and a Windows V4.27 core client within a
WINE environment at the same time on one machine (AMD Duron 1600 w/384MB
RAM, Linux Kernel 2.6.8-24-default). They don't put too much strain on it,
the KDE desktop and all apps still give a proper performance. 

As I am writing this, I'm compiling a multimedia application from source
(nice 10), the locatedb is updating, Mozilla, the Pan newsreader and some
minor applications are running comfortably. CPU load is at an average of
12% for user threads with peaks up to 35% every 20 seconds or so. System
threads add 5% more to the overall system load.

I don't think I'll ever downgrade to Windoze again.

Greetings
Matthias


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