[Brazuca]

I can't get my performance per unit higher than the 9+ hours per unit. I have followed all the suggestions (higher caches speed, Ram disk, quitting processes, LibMoto), but to very little avail. I have a G4/400 (AGP) with 192MB Ram. I would think that it should do better than 9 hours...

[Misha]

Are you running SETI 3.0 or 2.04?

3.0 has been proven to be slower... see other threads in this forum relating to that.

[Brazuca]

I'm running 3.0 and the latest of everything else. I've been reading of people doing a WU in 4-5 hrs!!!
I also didn't notice a difference wether I kill every process or if I run it as a standard screen saver.

[Todd Madson]

Those 5 and 6 hour blocks were generated on the 2.04 client. I'm running
a AGP G4 / 400 with 128 megs of ram and that's about what I'm getting too.

I went back to 2.04 and will stay there until forced to migrate. What
really bums me is the medium range Pentium machines I have at work can
churn out blocks in 3-6 hours now under 3.x. Irritating.

I believe they modified the code so it was more friendly to cheaper and
more inexpensive computers (smaller L2 cache and slower FSB) and made it
a bit more difficult for machines with the large L2 cache the G4 systems
have. They'll never create an Altivec client so get used to it (unless 9.1 OS has more Altivec optimization for the math routines that is).