Linux SMP

Pilgrim57 · 22 Aug 2007 at 16:22

So I put back my 2GB of RMA'ed ram & ran @ 244x 11 3-4-4-8-2T: sweet.
This a.m. upped to 11x250, fine. Tried ram @ 1T & ran Boinc & console client for over 1 hr OK after Orthos for 1/2hr. Switched to VMware & Ubuntu & my 1/2 completed wu crashed within a few minutes :eek:

[when will I learn not to alter overclock before wu has finished

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I have noticed this before the Winows reinstall; the Linux SMP is more sensitive to an o/c than normal win usage. Has anyone else noticed this or is this peculiar to my AMD set up?

Cob · 22 Aug 2007 at 16:54

Yip I find that the linuxSMP is more sensitive too. I had to reduce my clocks slightly on both my old E6600 and my current Q6600 despite them being 12 hours Orthos/Prime95 stable.

shadowscotland · 22 Aug 2007 at 17:19

Totally agree - but having a slightly lower clock but 100 stability is not really a 'problem' is it

The numbers that our PC are crunching are need to be exact - missing a frame or two on a game is one thing, but missing even a single molecule will forms a completely different protein.

Pilgrim57 · 22 Aug 2007 at 17:33

shadowscotland said:
Totally agree - but having a slightly lower clock but 100 stability is not really a 'problem' is it

Thanks for the feedback guys, at least I know its not me getting it wrong.
Stability, good but speed is better: I need it to try & keep up with the Intel crowd. How quickly last year's thoroughbred turns into an old nag. Its also depressing to think I paid twice what I could get a quad core for now

Oh well at least I can be amused by watching Heroes tonight