... and with SLOW! I mean, REALLY slow. Normally I work with Linux and the machine in question does a WU in 1:20:00 (average). Now I have to use Windows for a special project and I thought, well, let BOINC run on Windows for a change.

Installed, attached, go.
The first WU was done after 7:24:03, the second WU is in progress, showing 4:54:00 CPU useage and 79% of the work done. On the same machine where it crunches a WU in 80 minutes under Linux.

I know that Linux is far better than Windows (sorry!) but I did not know that the difference is so great! No, only kidding! There must be something I haven't found yet which slows the work down.

wobo

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Look in the Number Crunching forums for any thread with "optimized client" or "optimized application" in the name. You'll quickly find out why it is that the Windows Seti_4.18.exe app is so slow: It's not compiled with optimization to your specific processor.

The standard application is slow.
Catch a quicker app at Crunch3r's site. Full install steps are available.

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Look in the Number Crunching forums for any thread with "optimized client" or "optimized application" in the name. You'll quickly find out why it is that the Windows Seti_4.18.exe app is so slow: It's not compiled with optimization to your specific processor.

The standard application is slow.
Catch a quicker app at Crunch3r's site. Full install steps are available.

WIll do, thx. I'm using an optimized client on Linux as well because that's my turf and I know my where-abouts. In Windows I feel a bit lost and I have to struggle to find my way... a lot of things I have to read up in the help section. :(

I'll give the optimized section a try, although it's just for a couple of weeks.

wobo

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I'll give the optimized section a try, although it's just for a couple of weeks.

Aye... hopefully earlier. As Seti Enhanced will soon be taking over. :)

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I'll give the optimized section a try, although it's just for a couple of weeks.

Aye... hopefully earlier. As Seti Enhanced will soon be taking over. :)

Hehehe, actually I meant that I have to run this machine on Windows just for a couple of weeks and then return back to Linux (hopefully not spoiled) :)

wobo

I'll give the optimized section a try, although it's just for a couple of weeks.

Just as a proof of a good advice i received:
I went to the address given, downloaded and installed the oprimized exe.
Before: >7 hours for one WU
After: 1:20 for a WU of similar size.

This is really amazing! Under Linux the optimized naparst client gave an advantage of 20-30% compared to the generic client. But from 7:00 down to 1:20 is an amazing leap.

Thx again, this way my fellow comrades of the mandrivauser.de team will not be too angry at me! :)

wobo