On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, sideband wrote:

>Hello all.
>
>I'm a HAM radio operator, and I'm trying to get my old SS2 set up to run 
>packet radio software (such as XASTIR, and others), as well as running 
>SETI@HOME. I've got the SunOS SETI client running, but it's SLOW.. I know.. 
>it's only an 80Mhz machine... but 9 days for a WU? I blame the SunOS client 
>for SETI, based on the fact that the Linux client runs much faster on one 
>of my NetBSD i386 machines (up to 40% faster, in fact) than the NetBSD 
>client does.

What does top report? SETI is a CPU bound process, and I guess there is 
not much emulation to be done when running (in terms of CPU time 
percentage.) If SETI is spending 99% of the CPU time, in user mode, then 
you're probably running as fast as you can.

When comparing it against your NetBSD i386 machines, are we really talking 
about a 386? Or is it a Pentium or later CPU? In CPU terms, SPARC really 
do bring up the rear in RISC performance terms.

Christian

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