Re: Performance of Folding@Home and Distributed Folding cleints

From: Martin Nilsson (martin_at_mullet.se)
Date: 11/30/03


Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:15:45 +0100
To: User Ernie <ernie@qbic.eis.net.au>

User Ernie wrote:
> have noticed is that under Linux the client says it's using the SSE
> instructions, where under FreeBSD and the linux_base-8 libraries it does not
> say that. The cleint runs multi threaded under Linux or FreeBSD.

Have you added

options CPU_ENABLE_SSE

to yor kenel config, and built a new kernel?

When I used folding@home on my P3, enabling SSE instructions made a huge
difference.

/Martin

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