Frank Malinowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[SETI at Home]
>Then I upgraded my SM OS from 7.6.1 to OS 9.1 and boy are the cycles slower.
>It now takes at least 30 hours (one was 37 hours) to run a cycle. Since it
>is the same SETI software I have to assume it is OS 9,1 slowing things down.
>But I thought things were supposed to be faster under later OSs since there
>was less 68k code left.
The old 7.6.1 Finder was not multi-threaded, so when it was in the
background, it used no CPU cycles. The 9.1 Finder is heavily
multi-threaded, and thus sucks up CPU time even when it isn't the foremost
window. Also, SETI is particularly sensitive to background processes
slowing it down.
-- Chris
Christopher Veres
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<http://www.obscure.org/~cveres/>
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