I beg to differ, and so do hundreds of thousands of people who have been running servers at 100% for many, many years.
SETI has been on machines since sometime 1999, and there are some of those original servers running at 100%, still running.
Processors were made to run at 100%. In fact, they always do, just most of the processes are idle. All you are doing is utilizing those idle processes for something else.
I personally have a machine that has been running 100% since 2003, and it's still going.
I beg to differ, and so do hundreds of thousands of people who have been running servers at 100% for many, many years.
I haven’t been around that long, but I have a Mac G4/400 running OS 10.3 Server that’s been crunching at 100% for nearly fifteen months, while serving files to a small but busy pre-press shop’s LAN ‘nine to five’. Its CPU efficiency is at about 80%; I presume the 20% ‘waste’ represents the amount of time it’s had to do its job while BOINC takes a back seat. At any rate it’s never given me a moment’s grief; meanwhile the system has only been rebooted perhaps half a dozen times in that interval, to install software updates. Oh, and a couple of times while I was wrestling with a bug involving SAMBA and CUPS.
I also beg to differ on on this issue. My system, seen to some as a antique (Intel PIII 448MHZ) had seen BOINC and other systems maxing out 100% on my CPU for months on end, with no issue. At times, when running, VNC, Web Server, FTP Server, Messengers, LAN Firewall, Internet Connection SHaring, 2 wireless Connections and Shared Printer.. My system has been farely stable with no serious problems.. I am running BOINC on a seperate HDD thought, to possibly save my primary in case of crash, also WTD is set to 3600 second Interval Saves.
Other than my old 3 and 4 Gb hard disks i have had little problem running my machines at 100% 24/7. Until i retired it and sent it to a new home recently i had an old Celeron 700Mhz crunching away. The only few times it failed were when it was unceremoniously turned off by power outages or the old HDD's i used to throw into it failed. I currently have 5 machines crunching including a laptop and everything from an old Celeron 2Ghz to a fairly new C2D E6400 and they all seem to love running 24/7 at 100%. Not a failure in months.
100% CPU is not good for servers
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I beg to differ, and so do hundreds of thousands of people who have been running servers at 100% for many, many years.
SETI has been on machines since sometime 1999, and there are some of those original servers running at 100%, still running.
Processors were made to run at 100%. In fact, they always do, just most of the processes are idle. All you are doing is utilizing those idle processes for something else.
I personally have a machine that has been running 100% since 2003, and it's still going.
RE: I beg to differ, and so
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I haven’t been around that long, but I have a Mac G4/400 running OS 10.3 Server that’s been crunching at 100% for nearly fifteen months, while serving files to a small but busy pre-press shop’s LAN ‘nine to five’. Its CPU efficiency is at about 80%; I presume the 20% ‘waste’ represents the amount of time it’s had to do its job while BOINC takes a back seat. At any rate it’s never given me a moment’s grief; meanwhile the system has only been rebooted perhaps half a dozen times in that interval, to install software updates. Oh, and a couple of times while I was wrestling with a bug involving SAMBA and CUPS.
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I also beg to differ on on this issue. My system, seen to some as a antique (Intel PIII 448MHZ) had seen BOINC and other systems maxing out 100% on my CPU for months on end, with no issue. At times, when running, VNC, Web Server, FTP Server, Messengers, LAN Firewall, Internet Connection SHaring, 2 wireless Connections and Shared Printer.. My system has been farely stable with no serious problems.. I am running BOINC on a seperate HDD thought, to possibly save my primary in case of crash, also WTD is set to 3600 second Interval Saves.
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Other than my old 3 and 4 Gb
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Other than my old 3 and 4 Gb hard disks i have had little problem running my machines at 100% 24/7. Until i retired it and sent it to a new home recently i had an old Celeron 700Mhz crunching away. The only few times it failed were when it was unceremoniously turned off by power outages or the old HDD's i used to throw into it failed. I currently have 5 machines crunching including a laptop and everything from an old Celeron 2Ghz to a fairly new C2D E6400 and they all seem to love running 24/7 at 100%. Not a failure in months.