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Why are PCs relatively good at Ubero?
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Jan 27, 2002, 07:03 PM
 
I've got 3 agents runchig Ubero for me right now: an iMac 500, a Pismo 400, and a Compaq 350.
The iMac goes through about 100 units a day. I use the memory tweak.
The Pismo does about 80 units a day. I run it from the command line, no memory tweak (not enough memory).
The Compaq does about 100 units a day, from the GUI. I dunno how to use the Windows CLI, so I can't run Ubero any faster on this thing.

Why is the PC doing so well? I thought that Pentium IIIs were slower per megahertz than G3s.
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Jan 27, 2002, 09:04 PM
 
I would imagine that Sun and Microsoft spend more time and money on developing a good and fast Java environment for Windows, since almost everyone uses windows.

PS go here to get info on using the CLI for windows.

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Jan 27, 2002, 09:12 PM
 
Thanx Ski, but I don't even know what the autoexec.bat is, let alone want to fiddle with it. I don't know how to access the CLI in Windows like the Mac Terminal.
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Jan 27, 2002, 11:23 PM
 
I'll have instructions soon.

I've got the IBM JRE on my server, and as soon as I get it somewhere with a faster pipe, I'll link to it.

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Jan 28, 2002, 03:18 AM
 
Originally posted by cdhostage:
<STRONG>I've got 3 agents runchig Ubero for me right now: an iMac 500, a Pismo 400, and a Compaq 350.
The iMac goes through about 100 units a day. I use the memory tweak.
The Pismo does about 80 units a day. I run it from the command line, no memory tweak (not enough memory).
The Compaq does about 100 units a day, from the GUI. I dunno how to use the Windows CLI, so I can't run Ubero any faster on this thing.

Why is the PC doing so well? I thought that Pentium IIIs were slower per megahertz than G3s.</STRONG>
For me, it's just the opposite; I've got a Powermac G4 DP450 and a P3 1Ghz running Ubero, both command line, but with the IBM JRE on the P3, and my PowerMac is still kicking my P3's beige butt.
     
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Jan 29, 2002, 02:12 AM
 
Originally posted by cdhostage:
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The iMac goes through about 100 units a day. I use the memory tweak.
The Pismo does about 80 units a day. I run it from the command line, no memory tweak (not enough memory).
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I have a Pismo 400 with 384 RAM, running OSX... it runs Ubero (well, I crunch dnetc now).. but I used to run Ubero, my best day was 95 units... running the CLI with tweaks.
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Jan 29, 2002, 12:33 PM
 
Well, last night I finished the first full 24 hour run at Ubero on my Dual 800. I'm running 2 instances of the CLI through the Terminal. I've editted the memory tweak a little bit to where I think it gives me better performance. I use:

<font face = "courier">java -Xms900m -Xmx900m -XX:NewSize=300m -XX:MaxNewSize=300m -cp Agent.jar ubero.agent.Agent -text </font>

If that's wrong, someone let me know. Anyway, I completed 208 tasks per processor. So that's 416 total tasks yesterday. Not too bad for a single machine. Just thought I would share.

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Jan 29, 2002, 01:13 PM
 
208 per 800 Mhz G4, that's great. At best my 867 only did 202. I guess that a dual system as more power per processor since the work load for the OS is spread out over two processors.
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