So how come we don't see problems every weekend night when the college kids are in their dorms firing up the game servers? I can't recall seeing anything on the list about connection problems in a long time. Certainly not on any kind of regular basis. I do see the amount of spam rising incredibly in just the last couple months and especially January; and now we're seeing problems with connections. I suspect that's more likely the cause. College kids spamming? ;-)
AG > > > > 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... > > == > 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
