On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 10:07, PeterMerchant <petermerch...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to help, but my computer is not very powerful > -Computer- > Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3420 @ 3.20GHz > I don't think that's necessarily a huge drawback. The overall computing power comes from numbers of CPUs/GPUs as well as individual processing power. My system is dual core but each CPU is slower than that (2.2GHz). > The usual questions: which of these two methods uses the least > power/resources? > Not sure which two methods you might mean: * bare vs container - No difference. Containers are not virtualized, they run directly on the CPU. Probably not work bothering with containers for this unless you're already used to them (or fancy playing). * BOINC vs folding@home - I think either can use as much idle CPU as you want to give it. For folding@home there is a slider on the web interface for power: 'light-medium-full', and also defaults to doing work only when the computer isn't otherwise in use. Tim. */ -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
