Re: [Sheflug] Multiple instances of Seti Client

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet "Alasdair Munro" uttered these words of wisdom:
> Does anyone have experience of running multiple instances of the Seti
> commandline client?
> 
> Anyone know if this is likely to be more productive that the graphical 
> (windoze) client?
> 

I've not run Seti, but if it's like the distributed.net RC5 clients then 
running multiple instances at once is rather counter productive.

I'm assuming that seti, like dnetc, will use up any spare CPU going, so your
CPU is always at 100%, pretty much, and gives it self a low priority so that
anything else vying for CPU is able to get it without any difficulty. 

Thus running two Seti clients would basically mean each client has 50% CPU - 
viz, they're running at half speed. So you have two clients doing in time T 
(each seti taking 2 * T to finish a work unit, hence 2 units in 2T) doing 
the same work as one seti (each work unit taking T to complete, so for two 
units, that's 2T time).

However, if anyone knows how Seti works with more authority, feel free to 
correct :)

Chris...

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