I stand corrected on the Athlon issue--force of habit when thinking about AMD, inattention to detail, etc. The 380 MHz CPU chip is indeed a K6, actually a -III, which I think was a rarely used chip that Compaq, maker of my Win laptop, seemed not to want to pursue despite its putative advantages over the -II.
The slowdown is essentially identical under OS X v.10 and v.10.1, which I just installed, discovered to be just as slow as v.10, and was prompted to write about. Thanks to all who have responded. I had been letting seti@home run as a screensaver because my computers are idle most of the time and the one minute the program spends running the graphics before screen-blanking is a tiny fraction of the typical duty cycle, and because I had thought (incorrectly?) that if it runs as an app, it won't blank the screen (though the screen goes dark due to Windows' own conservation measures, I've been under the impression that a running app doesn't know this and continues to produce a graphics output, thus slowing down its pure computational function. Not so?) I'll have to look into this. I'll run a unit or two on each machine as an app and see what happens. Thanks again, --howard (1822 work units and counting) ----- Original Message ----- From: Evan T. Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 11:56 AM Subject: Re: S-L-O-W MacOS X performance! > > 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 == 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
