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SETI CLI on 486SX?



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


Heh...I should run this WU on it! 😀

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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. 😉
 
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 😉
 
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. >>

 
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.
 
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
 
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! 🙂
 
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....)
 
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 🙂
 
What does a 486 pull? like 8 watts? 🙂 I just look at my computers as being electric heaters for the winter 🙂
 
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 😀 😛
 
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!
 
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. 😉
 
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.
 
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).

 
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