I've just joined the list, so I hope I'm not revisiting an old topic. I recently downloaded seti@home v3 for MacOS X and have run about 10 work units with it. To my astonishment, a work unit takes in the neighborhood of 25 hours to complete on my 500 MHz G4 PowerBook with 512MB of RAM, comparable to what my 380 MHz Athlon-equipped Windows98 laptop and my 233 MHz G3 PB take.
The current version of seti@home running on the same G4 PB under MacOS 9 runs a work unit in about 10-11 hrs, comparable to the approx 10 hrs that my 700 MHz P3 Win98 desktop takes and a bit longer than the 9-10 hrs of the 833 MHz Win98 at work. In all cases the screen-saver dialog is optimized, with early screen blanking etc, and the program is allowed to run only as a screen saver, never booted as an app. Anyone know why the vaunted MacOS X takes 250% as long to run a work unit as OS 9? In addition, how do the times above for the G3 PB and the Win machines compare to others' experience with v3? Thanks, --howard == Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com
