HELP! I screwed it up?- SETI as a service

[CADsortaGUY]

Umm well I think i just screwed it up. OK - I was trying to get SETI and SETI driver setup up as a service using IsO's 2K Seti Driver Service install. THAT went OK but I now see "seti303.exe" in my task manager 2 times!
and I noticed when I was "editing" the Seti driver.cfg (to run low instead of normal) it had OK's proxy in there - I deleted that but I don't think that should mess anything up.

Is there a way I can "see" what is going on now - where can I change the amount of WUs in the cache now? AND MOST IMPORTANT - how can I get that second seti303.exe to stop and never return( I can't even use "end process" to end it).

 

[Sukhoi]

I believe you can manually start up a second instance of SETI Driver, change the stuff in there, click the "Save Config" button, and then reboot. It sounds like you have the # of processes at 2. I would only suggest doing this if you have a dual machine.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

How do i change the # of processes?

And where do I point the seti driver when i start that up? or will it automatically find it?

CADkindaGUY becoming --------> FRUSTRATEDkindaGUY

And plus Where are the WUs stored? just like to know

 

[IsOs]

The install files will setup SETI Driver inside a subdirectory called sah under system32 in your WINNT directory.

When the service is running and you happened to start SETIDr as an application to possibly change the settings, a second instance of SETI303.exe is run in the task manager. Running SETIDr this way also allows you to change other settings in real time, like the max instance that SETI Driver will run the client.

The workunits are stored in the number subdirectory inside sah. If you set your SETI driver to cache 10 workunits, you'll have directories 1 to 10.

Try to reboot the computer and check how many instance is running.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

whoa - i just checked again and there were 3 now ( i had setidriver open so i guess with IsOs install it does that)
- 2 instances are doing ~50% of cpu usage - I must have 2 running somewhere but i can't figure out where


HELP? how do I get the useless one to go away?

 

[IsOs]

So you just rebooted your computer, checked the task manager and found 3 instances of SETI303.exe. What about SETIDr.exe?

 

[IsOs]

Check your startup folder. What's in that folder?

 

[CADsortaGUY]

yes - setidr was there and there were only 3 when i had SetiDriver open.

nuttin in my startup folder

 

[IsOs]

Try this, navigate to sah inside your system32 and open with notepad SETIDr.cfg - post what's in this file.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

WHOO HOOO - i dunno what i did - well here is what i did but i don't know how that made the 3rd one disappear.

I opened SETIdriver made the cache bigger by 1 and then saved config. reboot. still 2 without SETIdriver open so I opened it and then 3 appeared......upped the cache by 1 again, saved, reboot - WHOOHOO- only 1(2 when SETIdriver is open.

THANKS for your help ALL!!!

 

[CADsortaGUY]

IsOs - What should be in there? - all that I have is:

-auto
-verbose
-SETILog


Thats it!

 

[Baldy18]

When you have SETIDriver open and you change the desired cache size the option right above the desired cache size is the maximum processes. If that value is set to 2 you will have 2 instances of "seti303.exe" run, if it is set to 10, 10 instances will run. You will want to make sure that is set to 1 and that should solve your problem (except will will go to 2 whenever you open setidriver in the future to change settings but will go back down when you close setidriver again).

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Baldy18 - nope it was ALWAYS set to 1. It is fixed now (I hope) - Maybe I had my old install running when i installed it? i dunno how that could screw it up but you never know I guess.

 

[IsOs]

Your SETIDr.cfg is set to run 1 process per cpu with the default cpu as 1, run it at low priority, automatically connecting to the SETI server at berkeley and creating a log file for SETILog to interpret. This setting will not force SETI driver to run the client more than the number of cpu. Those clients are run from somewhere else.

What's in your user_info.sah? Are there any number subdirectory inside sah? Go to one of them and what's inside the subdirectory.

You're saying that you rebooted your computer and went to the task manager and found 2 or three instances of SETI303.exe.

Did you delete the user_info.sah?

Do you have any icon in your taskbar or system tray?

 

[IsOs]

The number of instance will be corrected after rebooting.

 

[Baldy18]

Ok well I'm glad you got it fixed. If your old install was still running that would have caused the problem but the its fixed now so I guess that is all that matters.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

IsOs -
--No icons,

--I did delete the user_info.sah that came with your install but I replaced it with one from another machine that was using my info.

--yes there are 8 subdirs in the SAH directory - numbered 1 thru 8

--nothing out of the ordinary in my user_info.sah - exactly the same as the ones on my other 4 machines.

seems to be fine now - i've restarted multiple times mow just to make sure that something doesn't weird-out on me again.

Now the only test is what happens when I complete a WU - hopefully everything is running fine so i don't have to worry about that though.

THANKS ALL!!!

CADkindaGUY

 

[IsOs]

Just to make sure, open the user_info.sah and verify that it's your SETI ID inside the file.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

well...it isn't MY seti id - it is basilisk420's ID since we have started <read - "in the process of starting"> our own "mini-team"

 

[RustyNale]

Hmmm, what's the benefit of having seti run as a service? Does it make it any faster, or more stable? Thanks.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

There might be some time gains but i don't know that for sure - i've just read about people saying it did. But the biggest reason for me is because My main machine for my household has many users. Setting it up as a service allows it to run no matter who is "logged" into the computer. AND so they can't shut it off (unless they have admin rights - which they don't )

 

[Sukhoi]

Services will run at the login screen which can be valuable if the computer sits at that screen a lot.

 

[RustyNale]

Ahhh, thanks. Doesn't sound like it will do anything for me, as I'm the only user on my comp. And since it doesn't do anything for speed, I'll leave it alone Thanks guys.