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OT: Avoid winnt-cmdline - Linux rigs get 0.01 AR's?

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I thought that Win2K was better at cracking VLARs, not sure if the setting is correct to route them there, if you have that option. I tend to suck it up and go ahead and process the VLARs. Kills my avg times though.
 
I have one SCO Unix box in my fleet. The rest are Win2K, NT4, WinXP and one WinME (blech!!!!). Looking at wu history, it seems that the SCO box is given only VLAR's unless there are none left in the cache.
 
That option only works to route VLARs away from Windows 95/98/ME boxes as they are the ones that are affected by poor processing of VLARs. Your Linux box will do compairable work to a 2K box.
 
NT/Win2K/XP Pro do a bit better with VLARs than 9x/ME in relative terms. They're all bad, but the former to lesser of a degree. Roelof Englebrecht (Setispy author) did some graphs charting VLARs on different windoze systems and confirmed the differences... In general, non-windoze clients will process VLARs faster (as they should) than mid-ARs.

Setiqueue's VLAR redirect will shunt VLARs to any client it finds that is non-windoze. If all you have is windoze, you're sortof SOL with Setiqueue as Ken Reneris hasn't yet found a way to redirect the WUs to different windoze OSes. 🙁
 


<< If all you have is windoze, you're sortof SOL with Setiqueue as Ken Reneris hasn't yet found a way to redirect the WUs to different windoze OSes. 🙁 >>



I have to dissagree with that. I have a small network of 5-6 computers two of which run windows 98 and the others have run 2K and XP. My 98 boxes haven't processed a VLAR since I turned on VLAR routing in SetiQueue and that was about 6-7 months ago.
 
I have to dissagree with that. I have a small network of 5-6 computers two of which run windows 98 and the others have run 2K and XP. My 98 boxes haven't processed a VLAR since I turned on VLAR routing in SetiQueue and that was about 6-7 months ago.

I stand corrected. Looking at this, one of the improvements during his beta cycle included:

"beta4d Improved VLAR routing logic to give preference to NT clients within a single queue."

I know that early on in the VLAR discussions, the issue came up about being able to distinguish between OSes if both were using the same CLI. Those beta testers working with Ken indicated that he was was continually having problems being able to do this and the original code routed based solely on client. Perhaps some of those testers gave him a hand with some code (I would think, utilizing the fact that the OS gets reported in a result.sah file, and that info, for the particular machine that submitted the result, could be tapped and placed in the client_xxx.ini file)... 🙂
 
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