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Date:      Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:15:45 +0100
From:      Martin Nilsson <martin@mullet.se>
To:        User Ernie <ernie@qbic.eis.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Performance of Folding@Home and Distributed Folding cleints
Message-ID:  <3FC9C351.5070404@mullet.se>
In-Reply-To: <200311292220.hATMKpgM054884@qbic.eis.net.au>
References:  <200311292220.hATMKpgM054884@qbic.eis.net.au>

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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 doe=
s 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.

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