[drbott]

OK, nows time for those tips on performance. I have a Cube, G4/400, and a dual 450 that are all getting about 7.5 hours a unit. Back in the day when the client was a simple application I had a PowerComputng developer seed unit that I put the system and everything on a ram disk and it increased performance about 30% but it was of course useless for anything else.

For now I'm interested in what can be done to reach these 5 hour/unit times i'm hearing about while still keeping the machines useful for real work.

Thanks!

[wlonh]

ok, first, run seti as screensaver only and set it to go to blank screen after 1 minute.
(if you must run SETI as background app, be sure to windowshade its window)

use a ram disk (am sure you know the details on this one)

XLR8 Mach Speed Control software for overclocking L2 cache speed

and LibMoto is not evil

those are the main tricks...

see SETI Station for tips etc: http://www.flex.com/~daniel/SETI/

SETI Unit Manager is handy (though not for speed really): http://212.86.34.76/SUM/

that is all i can recall off the cuff

and see this thread: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Forum2/HTML/000411.html

[This message has been edited by wlonh (edited 08-24-2000).]

[drbott]

Great start, thanks.

The one thing I haven't seen mentioned is Rambunctious. It allows the creation of Ram Disks dynamically and allows them to be saved on quit or periodically. So you don't have to be paranoid about shutting your machine down or crashing and loosing data.

Check it out.
http://www.clarkwoodsoftware.com/rambunctious/

[wlonh]

cool but i am a cheapo and use a freeware jobbie, John's RAM Disk Backup or some name like that, use it with my beige G3 minitower (rev2) @ 466MHz/1M L2... never lost a RAM Disk yet, 532 WUs to date... and my iBook has the save contents thing for RAM disk though i quit using a RAM disk with it because it made little if any difference (maybe due to NWROM, i dunno... whatever...)

Rambunctious is cool though and allows for more than one RAM Disk...

[Evangellydonut]

LibMoto is the root of all evil! Mwahahahaha
Actually, it crashed my OC'd G3/266 (now 333) twice at least (while doing Seti), and that's a no-no when the G3 is the router for my G4...

[wlonh]

ok, so how is it you know for an absolute fact that LibMoto did it and not something else or a combination of other factors?

MacsBug, or what? and even if MacsBug points to LibMoto, how do you know it wasn't simply a case of ASLM pref's corruption?

Inquiring minds want to know...

(LibMoto has never crashed my Macs)

[iPad]

I did not gain any performance with LibMoto.

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People aren't as dumb as you think. Wait, what was I thinking, 90% of the world uses WINDOWS!
You don't like Macs? Good, more for me.

[Evangellydonut]

I know 'cuz I run a stripped down OS9 w no backgroud apps (except router and control strip) when both crash occurred? never happened prior, didn't happen since I un-installed it.

Oh, and MacsBug caused more crashes then its worth, so none of that for me.

[This message has been edited by Evangellydonut (edited 08-26-2000).]

[wlonh]

still could have been a corrupted ASLM pref's file reacting poorly...