On one of my boxes some time ago I installed client , but wasnt happy with the measured integer speed being half of the windows XP on the same box (dual boot) so had been running on windows .

Yesterday I made another box dual boot , installed UBUNTU breezy , than installed the linux client again , got it running with no problems , but there must have been a problem as now I seem to have an extra 6 instances of computer ID in "your computers " .

Any way of getting rid of these or will they just disappear in time , I dont know how they happened to be there , maybe the way I set it up , but I wont continue running on Linux until somehow there is an improvement on optimizing the Linux client to match the windows client .

Answers anyone , thanks :)

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On the subject of BOINC benchmarks lower under Linux than Win, have a look here

Basically the "standard" BOINC v5.2.13 binary for Linux from Berkeley University is compiled in a way that its benchmark reports roughly HALF the speed (in FLOPS), than the BOINC v5.2.13 binary for Windows, running on the very same hardware.

The science apps (Rosetta, SETI, simap etc) doing the "real" work, might actually be doing MORE work per hour on the same PC under Linux than under Windows, since the OS itself is more efficient.

The solution to get similar credits using Linux, is to use an alternate BOINC client.

Recent progress in the BOINC world is towards awarding credits based on real work done (which I expect to upset some people accustomed to ultra-high benchmarks fitting in L2 cache, as in the case of real science apps accessing memory, often 3GHz and 2GHz PCs might actually doing roughly the same amount of real work per unit of time).

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Any way of getting rid of these or will they just disappear in time , I dont know how they happened to be there , maybe the way I set it up , but I wont continue running on Linux until somehow there is an improvement on optimizing the Linux client to match the windows client .

Answers anyone , thanks :)

I too have several Linux "ghosts" floating around in my list of hosts. Rosetta thinks I have 9 computers, I actually have 3 :p

The question of merging hosts to clean up this issue is very well known to all of the administration. That worthy person who goes by the handle of Moderator9 is a strong advocate for re-incorporating that function in Rosetta's future.

For now, I just let the ghosts hang around. They're a little untidy, but really do no harm.

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Take that as an indication by Boinc that it thinks you should be running 6 more systems, MintabiePete. Besides.. it'll help us catch up to the teams ahead of us. :)

It'll probably be after CASP that the server code is updated and we get the Merge ability back.

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Take that as an indication by Boinc that it thinks you should be running 6 more systems, MintabiePete. Besides.. it'll help us catch up to the teams ahead of us. :)

It'll probably be after CASP that the server code is updated and we get the Merge ability back.

You are most likely right bennyrop , but they are not doing any harm sitting there , as its been mentioned they just look a little bit untidy :)

But I would love to get this Linux thing correct , but not at the expense of being thought cheating by using an optimized client , be great if someone with more experience than me in Linux could look into it :)

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Take that as an indication by Boinc that it thinks you should be running 6 more systems, MintabiePete. Besides.. it'll help us catch up to the teams ahead of us. :)

It'll probably be after CASP that the server code is updated and we get the Merge ability back.

You are most likely right bennyrop , but they are not doing any harm sitting there , as its been mentioned they just look a little bit untidy :)

But I would love to get this Linux thing correct , but not at the expense of being thought cheating by using an optimized client , be great if someone with more experience than me in Linux could look into it :)

Just an update , started the UBUNTA breezy again for a while today and seems that something is mutating , I have 4 computers , but Rosetta tells me I have 15 now , whatever is happening :( all I did was start the client , I may have to uninstall ubuntu than re install it again to get some sense out of it .

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It's a bug, and there is a patch for it, but R@H are waiting for CASP to end before applying it. Everytime your hosts connect a new computer is created. I'm up to 90 I think and climbing.

You just have to sit tight and wait. :)

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It's a bug, and there is a patch for it, but R@H are waiting for CASP to end before applying it. Everytime your hosts connect a new computer is created. I'm up to 90 I think and climbing.

You just have to sit tight and wait. :)

Thanks for that info mate :)

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No probs

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I see merge and delete are working again , so I managed to tidy things up :)

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