FreeBSD Port: boinc-setiathome-4.18

[Kent Stewart]

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 02:32, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Pieter Sybesma píše v st 05. 04. 2006 v 11:27 +0200:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What has been changed since the last version. Workunit times are
> > very, very high. Used to be 12-14 Hours (Dual PIII 550 Mhz, Freebsd
> > 5.3) now 22 hours at 35% time to completion 27 hours = 49 hours....
>
> Looks like new version is much slower than the old 4.07 for you.
> I'd suggest either keep running old one, or try the naparst version
> from ports.
>
> I may end up reverting port to 4.07 if this is widely seen problem.
> I do not crunch SETI personally.

I started using the naparst version because times went from ~6 hours to 
20+ hours. The bad part is that you may turn in results with 100-130 
credits but you may only get credit for 20. FreeBSD's Seti was always 
25% slower than Seti on the same machine running XP. I figured it was 
the optimization differences between compilers on the systems. The 
naparst version went the other way. It is much faster than Seti on XP. 
With the naparst version, the times are around 2 hours. The problem is 
that when you change from one version to the other, it may drop the 
current set of work units and download a new set. 

With Einstein in the ports, we have an alternative project to fill in 
when BOINC Seti is broken for some reason.

Kent

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