SETI CLI on 486SX?

[conjur]

Bad idea, eh?

 

[SoulAssassin]

<< Bad idea, eh? >>



Only if you care about your average w/u time. I have it running on a p/75 which takes about 96-100 hours so I can imagine what a 486sx would do.

 

[conjur]

Probably a month...doesn't the SX mean no math co-processor?


Heh...I should run this WU on it!

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[Crazee]

Yes the SX means no math coprocessor so it also means no Seti.

 

[networkman]

Even if it did have a mathco like the DX does, I still wouldn't bother, but that's me.

Actually, I shouldn't say what my minimum proc speed is 'cuz I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but in all honesty, part of my decision for whether to use a machine for SETI or not is based on its electricity consumption; since nearly all of my fleet is home-based and I'm the one paying the electric bill, a machine has to be "worth" the power I'm feeding it.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

On a similar note, I'm getting a dx2 66mhz for free soon... I think i'll try it and see how long it takes, i bet between 1 and 2 weeks per wu

 

[Fingers]

i'm bettin depending on angle range it will take about 3 weeks.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

That's pretty nasty, maybe I'll run something different, like RC5



<< i'm bettin depending on angle range it will take about 3 weeks. >>

 

[Fingers]

load UD on it, I am curious to see the overal system performance score. That should be pretty, kinda funny if it made low single digits.

 

[sduguid]

Has anybody ever tried running seti on a 486sx with Linux, with a kernel compiled for co-processor emulation? Those'd be some mighty high WU times, if it worked. :Q

 

[CraigRT]

the slowest CPU I would run SETI on, would be a PII 300-400
P1's are too slow for me, and as are K6 and K6-2's.
they take just too long... anything below that is even worse. NEVER!

 

[sduguid]

I'll run seti on most any system, as long as it would otherwise be running 24/7 anyway. Though a Pentium 150 takes about 50 hours per WU, that is about 175 WU a year (minus Berkeley bandwidth problems, etc....)

 

[conjur]

Was setting this PC up for my step-brother's dad and thought I'd try it as an experiment but I guess I'll hold off

 

[toft-dk]

Patience is a virtue, but in this case i guess i would be too much

 

[Evadman]

What does a 486 pull? like 8 watts? I just look at my computers as being electric heaters for the winter

 

[Poof]

I gave up SETI on my Cyrix 486-DX4/100 (when the Linux client was going to be way more than 400hrs/WU) in favor of RC5, where I can maybe get ~25 blocks/day out of it!

My current SETI Hall of Shamer is my sparc IPX @ 16 days/WU! :Q

 

[Sukhoi]

IMHO, SETI on any kind of 486 is a total 100% waste of power.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yield
I run SETI on a Pentium 233MMX @ 266MHz ,I get 31hrs/WU ,I don't have much so I'll take what I can get

Beggars can't be chosers

Oh ,once ran SETI on a P100 ,got 79hrs for 1 WU!

 

[IJump]

I ran RC5 on a 486/33 and got about 3 blocks a day from it. I think the lowest I machine running SETI on is a K6-2/450. It used to be a 350, but I upgraded.

 

[BadThad]

Personally, I wouldn't bother. I ran 3.03 on a P133 under NT4 and it took 40-50 hrs/wu. The the slowest PC I could bring myself to run it on, lol. Today I don't even bother with my daughters K6-2/500 which takes about 24 hrs/wu. I guess I lost my DC patience although the K6 system ran RC5 really well so I used it for that.

 

[SlowBones]

I thought about it, too, but couldn't find two sticks of 16MB ancient memory. If you do this, I'd expect electric costs per WU to exceed total system value :Q

I even went so far as to double my clock speed for $10 (33SX -> 66DX).