General Agreeance. In an attempt to overcome this problem, I have played with the cpu load I assign to the process, and have found ~ 85% to be an excellent balance of space warming and processing power, at least with my Athlon 2500. Weee.
Nate On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:02:20 -0500, Peter Snoblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin West wrote (Monday 13 September 2004 10:49 pm): > > To join in on the effort, all you have to do is download a small app > > that downloads a project, runs the emulation, sends the results back, > > and repeats. This is also run as a low priority process on your > > system, so you really don't even notice it is even running your CPU > > at 100% all the time. > > You (more than likely) won't notice any slowdown from it, but what you > *will* more than likely notice (at least something I noticed with my > systems) is a heat increase. Most modern processors scale back their > operation when they don't have data to crunch, thus generating less > heat. However, run them at 100% load all the time, and you'll (more > than likely) see an increase in dissapated heat. It was enough of an > effect to get me to stop doing such things. Though, if you can handle > the heat (no pun intended :-) ), [EMAIL PROTECTED] is, in my opinion at least, an > excellent project to support. > > -- > Peter Snoblin - http://entropicaccess.net/ > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
