[SPARCbook] SETI at Home - anyone else run it on their SPARCbook?

Jonathan Eisch jeisch at boku.net
Mon Oct 16 20:24:55 CDT 2000


My read on it is that it makes the computer really hot and it takes a
really long time to get it to spit out a result.  My contribution to the
project is the free cpu cycles on my HP 712/80, when I'm not using it.

-Jonathan

"Extern - Hennig, Bernd (SUN)" wrote:
> 
> >I did this a while ago, but I forgot how long it takes to "digest" one work
> >unit - is it really 60 hours?
> >
> >I've got it running now, on my otherwise idle "stock" Solaris 2.6 install
> >with 64 Meg RAM. The Performance tool shows 100% CPU, no swap, no disk
> >access activity (well, almost none), and a "load" of 1 (out of a possible
> >four)...
> >
> >Ken
> 
> Yep - I have the same - don't forget, it's not a UltraSparc :-(
> 
> Cu





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