Just to add fuel to the fire, I benchmarked my own machine a couple of minutes ago. It's an AthlonXp 2000+ (1667MHz) w/512MB of DDR 2700 RAM running Mandrake 7.1. I had XMMS playing as well as a couple of Mozilla windows open...
dnetc v2.9001-478-CTR-02112023 for Linux (Linux 2.2.15-4mdk). Please provide the *entire* version descriptor when submitting bug reports. The distributed.net bug report pages are at
http://www.distributed.net/bugs/ Using email address (distributed.net ID) 'chotch@............'
[Feb 19 08:37:57 UTC] Automatic processor type detection found
an AMD K7-6 (Athlon XP/MP/-4) processor.
[Feb 19 08:37:57 UTC] OGR: using core #0 (GARSP 5.13-A).
[Feb 19 08:38:16 UTC] OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13-A)
0.00:00:16.68 [11,873,670 nodes/sec]
[Feb 19 08:38:16 UTC] OGR: using core #1 (GARSP 5.13-B).
[Feb 19 08:38:38 UTC] OGR: Benchmark for core #1 (GARSP 5.13-B)
0.00:00:19.60 [11,491,880 nodes/sec]
So the Pentium used in those tests doesn't look too good at all.