An idea for our Seti public Queues

[ColinP]

It's probably already happening but we should try to ensure that every one of our public queues has at least 1 linux machine hanging off it. Then all of the VLAR WUs that go to the server will be directed to the Linux box which should hopefully bring down our average times for all the other Windows boxes...

Just a thought,

Col

 

[JWMiddleton]

Colin, When I installed WinXP Pro on two of my boxes over a year ago I noticed that they was getting getting most of the VLAR WUs, hence helping my overall average. If I get a large batch of VLAR WUs that is more than the XP boxes can handle then they are giving out to non-XP systems, but that rarely happens. So, to build on what you suggested, adding systems to ones queue that run NT, 2k or XP will also help your WU count.

 

[Spacehead]

I try to direct which WU's go to which computer here at home, using SETI Gate & SETI Driver. I have a Windows XP Home comp that gets the VLAR WU's(anything, say below 0.350 AR) & my Windows 98SE gets the pick of the rest.

 

[Smoke]

Col,

Does this action slow down the Linux machines?

Exactly how do you do this?

 

[onebadv6]

Greg it is all automatic if you run setiqueue and have a linux machine on your queue. One of the reasons I use the floppy seti install. All VLARs are routed to the linux machine because they have very little performance hit doing those vs win9x machines. That being said if you run all NT machines the performance hit is about the same as the linux box.

So I have my PII266 getting all the VLARs and my faster systems all get normal and sweet WU's