On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Martin Husemann wrote:

>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.

In this case, this will not be the issue. SS2 is a sun4c machine, ie. v7 
SPARC. So a v7 binary will be as optimal as you can get.

>
>Martin
>

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