On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:42:50PM +0100, Christian Smith wrote:
> 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.)

This is clearly a case of different cpu optimization flags. seti@home
compiled for v7 sparc cpus might be dog slow, compiled for v8 or later it
might be much faster. Same for the i386 client - the linux version probably
is optimized for pentium or above while the netbsd one is for real 386.

Martin