Did you patch it to version 10.1 (or whatever the newest iteration of OS X is) yet? I know the original release of OS X had pretty miserable performance with a lot of stuff, native OS X applications I believe, but read that the newer revisions fixed at least some of those early problems. If you've already patched it all the way up, I don't know what else to say except to echo t-pot's suggestion that you should just run SETI@home all the time rather than just as a screen saver. You mentioned already that you're running a blank screen saver instead of displaying the SETI@home progress, which is good, because using the actual SETI@home screen saver sucks up a lot of CPU just displaying the graphics. By the way, I doubt heavily that your 380MHz AMD machine is an Athlon, but is probably a K6-2.
Evan At 11:06 AM 12/25/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks, but you missed the fact that the Macs are all significantly FASTER >than the Win machines, MHz-for-MHz, EXCEPT when I run the program under >MacOS X. Anyway, I'm trying to solve the interesting problem of why Apple's >SOTA OS runs seti@home much slower than Apple's previous OS. > >Comments of the "[What do you expect]...it[']s an [A]pple!!!!!" sort are not >only nonresponsive and irrelevant, but indicative of an unjust (-ified) >Wintel-centric conceit, because in this case the implication is exactly >OPPOSITE to the facts. Let's stick to constructive observations; all >machines and all OS's of a given era have their strengths and their >weaknesses. > >--howard > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: t-pot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 3:47 AM >Subject: Re: S-L-O-W MacOS X performance! > > > > > > from my own experiences with my celry 300a@450 w/ 98se, amd k6-2 400 w/ >2k, > > and my celery 600 laptop w/ ME > > i get better results running all the time and the screen saver >de-activated > > as for the apple not getting as good time as the pc......its an apple!!!!! > > > > you could try letting it run all the time to see if that speeds it up > > solong as you arent doin stuff takin up major cpu speed and mem then it > > shouldnt hurt to let them run > > the cmd client and seti-driver are the best unless you like watchin the GI > > at work > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Howard L Ritter, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 12:06 AM > > Subject: S-L-O-W MacOS X performance! > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > == > > 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 > > > >== >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 == 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
