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D2OL Perfomance Linux(Mandrake 8.1) VS Windows... A Winner

mastertech01

mastertech01

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Well after converting 4 of the 5 nodes to Liinux Mandrake 8.1, I have seen a huge difference overall. My 3 machines running P3 784-933MHZ are as follows..

1 Windows Machine.... 800MHZ 24-28 Cands per day
2. Linux Machine One... 784MHZ 45-50 Cands per day
3. Linux Machine Two.. 933 MHZ 55-65 Cands per day

The Tualatin 1.2 with Linux.. 70-90 Cands per day
The P4 2.53 with Linux .... 95-120 Cands per day

From the 5 machines I estimate an average of 330 candidates with good serrver performance and a Linux machine fleet average of 75 perday...

Well worth the time to setup to Mandrake anyway.. 🙂

John
 
Wow John, thats some impressive performance increases, well done! 🙂

Any chance of a quick write-up of getting D2OL to work in Linux (have a spare Linux machine here but I'm not very fluent with the OS)
 
Hi Migroo.. 🙂

With Mandrake 8.1 it was too easy. I just followed the installation instructions. Then once connected to the internet via network, downloaded the Agent, installed it, and fired it up. 🙂 If you use later versions of mandrake you may have to download an rpm, but mandrake has a built in rpm installler so thats easy too. If you get hung up anywhere let me know and Ill assist as much as I can.

I just noticed Im on a 360+ candidate pace today. 🙂
 
Wow thats a lot of output for a home (I assume) fleet! 🙂 WTG John!

I'm using Red Hat 7.2 - this machine is used for backup so I cant really 'DC' it, however a faster 🙂)) replacement is coming and I'll put D2OL on that, on RH again.

I'll get back to you when I'm on to it, should be 2 weeks max.

Is the Linux client stable so far?
 
I'm burning Mandrake 9.0 ISO files to CD now. 😉

* CDs are burned but I have to go to work now, so this evening I'll give 'em a try.
 
Originally posted by: Migroo
Wow thats a lot of output for a home (I assume) fleet! 🙂 WTG John!

I'm using Red Hat 7.2 - this machine is used for backup so I cant really 'DC' it, however a faster 🙂)) replacement is coming and I'll put D2OL on that, on RH again.

I'll get back to you when I'm on to it, should be 2 weeks max.

Is the Linux client stable so far?
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I have had not stability problems with the client on RH 8.0 at all. Then again I have never crashed Linux.. I have crashed X but thats kinda different.
 
Originally posted by: mastertech01
Well after converting 4 of the 5 nodes to Liinux Mandrake 8.1, I have seen a huge difference overall. My 3 machines running P3 784-933MHZ are as follows..

1 Windows Machine.... 800MHZ 24-28 Cands per day
2. Linux Machine One... 784MHZ 45-50 Cands per day
3. Linux Machine Two.. 933 MHZ 55-65 Cands per day

The Tualatin 1.2 with Linux.. 70-90 Cands per day
The P4 2.53 with Linux .... 95-120 Cands per day

From the 5 machines I estimate an average of 330 candidates with good serrver performance and a Linux machine fleet average of 75 perday...

Well worth the time to setup to Mandrake anyway.. 🙂

John
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I`ll stick in a word for Windows (no pun intended 🙂 )
John, since the update my P3 800 has gone from an average of about 25 - 30 to an average of 50.
Also running Windows XP home.

 
Let us know when you have that moochine up Migroo.. 🙂

Andy, I saw some performance increase with the Windows OS, but not nearly what I am getting from Mandrake. I have to leave one machine on Windows for my daughter but the rest, even my main rig are on Mandrake. If performance evens out over time Ill prolly go back to windows for the main rig anyway.

Just a quick check and I see my P3 933 has already done 50 Today on Mandrake.. 🙂
 
My 5,000 cand challenge has really motivated you. Excellent....everything is falling into place.😉
 
I have crashed X but thats kinda different.
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I had a major problem with a ECS K7S5A and a 3Ware 6200 conflict that crashed that system all the time, it would freeze in X and "ctrl+alt+backspace" would crash out all the way out to a reboot, that sucked, otherwise never had a problem.

Also I converted a PIII 600@800 (1 of two remaining Intel chips in my Home Fleet) to Mandrake 9, went from 25 cands a day to almost 50... :Q Its very much worth the switch!









SHUX
 
As long as we're on the issue of performance.. would a P4 1.4 rig be more efficient at processing SETI or D2OL, as compared to say an XP1600 on either project?

I need to know fairly soon as I've got some more toys coming. :Q 😀
 
tbates, Im running GUI .. I could get even more performance if I went CLI, but to me thats being a glutton for punishment. I like to have SOME automation.. LOL

Baldy... all I can say is 🙂

Geoffs you would prolly be kickin in near 2 Grand a day if all yours were Linux.. 🙂

Networkman, I havent been real impressed with P4 thus far in any environment. Even my Tualatin 1.2GHZ runs within 20 of the 2.53 P4 daily and it is the Celeron smaller cache variety. Thats pretty sorry for the money diff. Im sure either Tualatin or Athlon XP woud give you the best performance for the money.
 
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