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Carl A. Myrvang · Guest

I read about the speed others process their SETI packets, and I think there
may be something wrong with my system.

I have a XP1800+ CPU, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB Swapfile, running Windows XP SP1 and
SETI@Home 3.08 with graphics as screensaver. My system uses about 30 hours
CPU-time pr. packet, isn>t that a bit too long?

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Carl A. Myrvang

Have a nice day, Happiness is mandatory.

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Mark Taylor · Guest

"Carl A. Myrvang" <eldhannas@broadpark.no> wrote in
news:oprt2jjpmvckzuf2@news.broadpark.no:

[quote]I read about the speed others process their SETI packets, and I think
there may be something wrong with my system.

I have a XP1800+ CPU, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB Swapfile, running Windows XP
SP1 and SETI@Home 3.08 with graphics as screensaver. My system uses
about 30 hours CPU-time pr. packet, isn>t that a bit too long?

[/quote]
First, the graphics uses as much as 40-50% of the processor. The best
configuration is to set it to go to a blank screen after a short time, or
even immediately. See the screen saver settings (it>s not in the client
screen. It>s on the screen saver settings screen.)

For best results, and if you are computer literate enough, use the CLI with
any of the add-ons. The WinNT version works on all modern versions of
windows and is considerably faster.

Cheers,
Mark

Odysseus · Guest

Mark Taylor wrote:
[quote]
I have a XP1800+ CPU, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB Swapfile, running Windows XP
SP1 and SETI@Home 3.08 with graphics as screensaver. My system uses
about 30 hours CPU-time pr. packet, isn>t that a bit too long?

First, the graphics uses as much as 40-50% of the processor. The best
configuration is to set it to go to a blank screen after a short time, or
even immediately. See the screen saver settings (it>s not in the client
screen. It>s on the screen saver settings screen.)

For best results, and if you are computer literate enough, use the CLI with
any of the add-ons. The WinNT version works on all modern versions of
windows and is considerably faster.

There must be more to Carl>s problem than just using the screensaver,[/quote]
though; without displaying graphics it should only take four or five
hours per WU on a machine with that kind of clock speed (and even
with graphics on all the time I wouldn>t expect the speed to be worse
than halved), so something else is apparently slowing things down several-fold.

--
Odysseus 13# @ 31Y

Gary Thomas · Guest

With DDR memory, you should be in the neighborhood of 4 hours per wu,
with SDRAM 5-6 hours per wu.

Gary

Carl A. Myrvang wrote:
[quote]I read about the speed others process their SETI packets, and I think
there may be something wrong with my system.

I have a XP1800+ CPU, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB Swapfile, running Windows XP SP1
and SETI@Home 3.08 with graphics as screensaver. My system uses about 30
hours CPU-time pr. packet, isn>t that a bit too long?
[/quote]

ytrewq · Guest

What else is running in the background - and consuming CPU cycles?
Do you know how to "turn things off" using Ctl+Alt+Del, and use MSCONFIG to
experiment?
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"Carl A. Myrvang" <eldhannas@broadpark.no> wrote in message
news:oprt2jjpmvckzuf2@news.broadpark.no...
[quote]I read about the speed others process their SETI packets, and I think
there
may be something wrong with my system.

I have a XP1800+ CPU, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB Swapfile, running Windows XP SP1
and
SETI@Home 3.08 with graphics as screensaver. My system uses about 30 hours
CPU-time pr. packet, isn>t that a bit too long?

--
Carl A. Myrvang

Have a nice day, Happiness is mandatory.

Using M2, Opera>s revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/[/quote]

je2bwm · Guest

Isn>t it cuaused by spyware?

You can use task-manager(when windows) or something like that to check
if other program (spyware) is consuming your CPU cycles.
To start task manager of windows 2K, right click the task-bar. Select
"process" and then "cpu" column to sort the processes that consume your
CPU. If the biggest consumer of your CPU is NOT setiathome, check if the
cunsumer is a right program for you.

You can download softwares on the internet that will wash spyware out
from your PC, Adware, etc. Please serch it by the keyword "spyware".

ytrewq wrote:
[quote]What else is running in the background - and consuming CPU cycles?
Do you know how to "turn things off" using Ctl+Alt+Del, and use MSCONFIG to
experiment?
===============================
"Carl A. Myrvang" <eldhannas@broadpark.no> wrote in message
news:oprt2jjpmvckzuf2@news.broadpark.no...

I read about the speed others process their SETI packets, and I think

there

may be something wrong with my system.

I have a XP1800+ CPU, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB Swapfile, running Windows XP SP1

and

SETI@Home 3.08 with graphics as screensaver. My system uses about 30 hours
CPU-time pr. packet, isn>t that a bit too long?

--
Carl A. Myrvang

Have a nice day, Happiness is mandatory.

Using M2, Opera>s revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

[/quote]

~misfit~ · Guest

"je2bwm" <ucepot@bwm-je2.dip.jp> wrote in message
news:JOj0b.2572$Fk4.357627@news1.rdc1.ky.home.ne.jp...
[quote]Isn>t it cuaused by spyware?

You can use task-manager(when windows) or something like that to check
if other program (spyware) is consuming your CPU cycles.
To start task manager of windows 2K, right click the task-bar. Select
"process" and then "cpu" column to sort the processes that consume your
CPU. If the biggest consumer of your CPU is NOT setiathome, check if the
cunsumer is a right program for you.

You can download softwares on the internet that will wash spyware out
from your PC, Adware, etc. Please serch it by the keyword "spyware".
[/quote]
I use and recommend Spybot Search and Destroy. I used to use Ad-aware but
Spybot picks up a lot of things that Ad-aware misses. (I still have both on
my 'puter) And it>s free. I scan a couple of times a week.
--
~misfit~

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ucepot · Guest

Yah, Spybot looks smart. I try it soon. TNX.

~misfit~ wrote:
[quote]
snip
You can download softwares on the internet that will wash spyware out
from your PC, Adware, etc. Please serch it by the keyword "spyware".

I use and recommend Spybot Search and Destroy. I used to use Ad-aware but
Spybot picks up a lot of things that Ad-aware misses. (I still have both on
my 'puter) And it>s free. I scan a couple of times a week.
--
~misfit~

-------------je2bwm--------------[/quote]

Stratcat® · Guest

"Carl A. Myrvang" <eldhannas@broadpark.no> wrote in message
news:oprt5ayrgcckzuf2@news.broadpark.no...

<snip>

[quote]Apparently, the problem was the GUI, I>m now up to about 4 hrs pr WU
according to SetiSpy
:-D

--
Carl A. Myrvang

[/quote]
My hunch is there was more going on than just the GUI, since I>ve run both
on a P3 machine, and didn>t see anywhere near that drastic of a change in
WU times. Maybe something got correctly configured while setting up the CLI,
or your machine had an unbelievably extreme graphics bottleneck.

JMO
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Strat®

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