Crucniing, little help here..

Just started crunching for Overclockers a few days ago. Installed on my linux machine and the ol ladies windows machaine... What i dont get is how the windows box is receiving more credits being a 32bit 2600+ at stock speeds, and my linux box is a 3000+ @ 2.25 ghz...


The linux box has about 200 megs more free ram when everything is loaded than the windows machine too.... Is it just because of the size and type of WU's that have been sent to each puter?

Just looks odd..

I believe it has something to do with the Linux version of BOINC not being as optimized as the Windows version.

Bascily what happens is when BOINC does the benchmarking on the machine, it gives higher numbers for the windows version, and the benchmark is used as part of determining credit.

I'm not all that familiar with the Linux version of BOINC, but I believe an optimized Linux version was compiled that should help your situation. Someone else should be able to pop in and answer where to get this.

Check in the message board, there are two threads about it:

Optimized Linux Client for SSE2 and SSE3 (Pentium IV and M)

Optimized Linux Client for MMX and SSE (Pentium, Pentium 2 and Pentium III)

Supossly this also run in AMD so choose the one you need and see if you can get better times. Please read carefully those threads. I would like to be of more help but I'm not a penguin

Them pages are in Japanese or something After a few days, the linux box is almost double the production of the windows box. Guess it just took awhile to get everything flowing...

Good to see things have sorted out for you. Enjoy Boincing

Thanks, i run a few servers from the linux box, but is nice to have it doing something actually usefull when it's sitting... Oh, and linux box is currently crushing the windows box. Running good...