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If this continues to happen I mat have to stop doing SETI. Yep, as quick as I started I will be forced to stop. Considering how many people are doing SETI and are still able to function their comp, I have a deep suspicion it?s something to do with my comp, and SETI.

For some reason SETI will bring my comp to a complete halt! Programs take forever to open; just to access the net is becoming a hassle. It takes forever for IE to open, task manager takes forever to open, outlook takes forever to open, and there is also a 10 second delay when I delete or try to open emails (sometimes longer about 20 seconds).

If I don?t open SETI everything operates fine, like it did before I started doing SETI. The funny thing is that when I first started SETI last week this had never happened. Now for some wired reason, this slow response from my computer has started.

If anyone can help I would appreciate it. I know it has something to do with SETI (I?m not familiar on how SETI uses my comp, I know it takes a lot of ram, but I have enough ram and then some. I use programs which take up more ram then SETI, and I never get slow downs).
 
SETI uses 16MB of RAM, but as you said, you should have enough that memory isn't the problem.

In your 'starting up' thread, I seem to remember that you were using SetiDriver and the command line client. Did you perhaps set SetiDriver to use a priority other than Low? If you set it to Normal, the client will act like any other program and force those programs to share CPU cycles with it, rather than having SETI just using the idle cycles. If you set it to High, then any other program you try to run will act like an Idle process, where they only get the CPU cycles that SETI does not use (this is known as not playing nice) and could explain the problems you are having.

Try opening up SetiDriver, set the priority to Low, Save Config, then exit SetiDriver and restart it and see if that clears up the problem. If so, just leave SETI at Low priority. It will take all the CPU cycles it can get, even at that setting, and there's no real reason to set it at anything else.
 
I swear I had it set to low. But yes, it was set to normal. I will run it and see what happens, if it works then I'll be happy again!

Thanks!
 
NOX, that happened to me before - brought my 1ghz P3 to it's knees. Set it back to low and all was good.😉
 


<< NOX, that happened to me before - brought my 1ghz P3 to it's knees. Set it back to low and all was good.😉 >>

LOL!!! Well, that seems to be the case here. It brought my system to its knees and made it beg for mercy! 😀 I bet my system will never act macho again!

I opened about 12 programs including Photoshop 5.5, all of office 2k and Illustrator, and no slow down. So I?m sure that was it.

Thanks Fardringle!
 
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