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Subject: Re: Performance of Folding@Home and Distributed Folding cleints
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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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