Ablemonk wrote:
> I'm not a college student (been more than a decade), nor do I play games
> online or do file sharing,
> but I feel the need to disagree with you, Art - sorry.
>
> For one thing I fail to understand where the aforementioned people using
> the web would
> put high loads on the SETI servers. Unless, of course, they're running
> seti@home and submitting hundreds of wu's per day. (complaints, anyone?)
I might point out that the ones he is complaining about are those users who are
sharing the same connection the Seti@home servers are using, I.E. when they use
a large amount of bandwidth the Seti servers only get what is left over since
they are a "lower" priority on the campus.
I feel that some of the chat and online games are a terrible waste of bandwidth
my self but....
on the other front, yes cpu cache makes a difference, I run seti on 2 AMD
machines, one has 64k level one and 128k level 2 cache for a total of 192, the
other has 128k +256k level 2 cache it is clocked less 15% faster, but it avg.
about 6 (5:46 currently) hours the other about 7 hours (6:50 currently) so cache
is part of the equation, but the speed of the cache is also part of the
equation, and both of those are full speed on die, the K6-2 was at system speed
and on the board for the level 2 cache, so cache access was not near as good as
the athlon T-bird Duron or XP series...
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