Ave. output for a 3GHz HT P4?

[A.N.Other]

I've managed to bork a 3GHz HT P4 with 512Mb RAM (soon to be 1Gb) and have set up two clients on it. Now I know that having two reduces the time to complete a WU, but the production for the PC seems to be a bit low?

I'm getting 65 and 67 ppd on each client, so 132 ppd overall. The thing is I can get that with my XP 2500 with a reasonable WU and that doesn't have HT. So, is this lower than normal, just a bad WU, or am I just expecting too much from it?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

It does seem low but I reckon it's just a weak WU. You should see around 160ish PPD assuming 24/7 operation.

 

[shadowscotland]

Got me four of those in the farm - but of late the gromacs 21** get really low PPD (not at all intel friendly)

Current doing these two on my workstation will take four days to complete
running 22/7 at 100%

Project : 2126
Core : Gromacs
Frames : 100
Credit : 373
-- thread 3 --
Avg. Time / Frame : 1h 14mn 59s - 71.63 ppd

Project : 2138
Core : Gromacs
Frames : 100
Credit : 385
Avg. Time / Frame : 1h 08mn 13s - 81.27 ppd

were as other give:
Gromacs
774/6, 2051/55-120ppd
775-175ppd
2124/34/38-80ppd
2126-75ppd
2409-280ppd ram heavy
2414-295ppd ram heavy
Tinker
1110-105ppd
1112-110ppd
Amber
1808-140ppd
GBGromacs
2096-200ppd

Hope that helps

 

[rich99million]

Got me four of those in the farm - but of late the gromacs 21** get really low PPD (not at all intel friendly)

It's not just Intel with these - all my AMD rigs are getting nothing special for these
Also neither FSB or Cache seem to make much difference at all with these WUs

 

[A.N.Other]

Thanks guys. Yer, it's working on two p2125s, so I guess it's just the WUs. I'm running in on 'don't do the RAM hogging WUs' atm until I get some more RAM for it.

Hopefully I can expect some better ppd when some nice WUs come around again then .

 

[rich99million]

Thanks guys. Yer, it's working on two p2125s, so I guess it's just the WUs. I'm running in on 'don't do the RAM hogging WUs' atm until I get some more RAM for it.

Hopefully I can expect some better ppd when some nice WUs come around again then .

The "ram hogging" WUs don't actually always use that much RAM - it relates to the download or upload size of the WU being over 5MB
If you're using the 5.04 console client you could allow large WUs but limit the memory the client indicates - from looking at the server status page the servers with 600 point WUs are only looking for clients with 64MB or over so that should be the maximum one of those would need

Of course you might want to only do that on one client of each HT machine just incase

 

[shadowscotland]

It's not just Intel with these - all my AMD rigs are getting nothing special for these

That's good to know I think I'm the only one here with a 100% intel farm, and sometimes that no good thing

The "ram hogging" WUs don't actually always use that much RAM

So far only the 2096 (40mb) and 2409/14 (110mb) have been ram heavy - most never get over 10mb.