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I have some bad news...

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TuffGuy

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Due to Wordperfect's inability to play nice with SETI, I have pulled it from the following:

2 - 1.53GHz Athlon XPs: ~13 WU/day
2 - 1.33GHz Athlon XPs: ~12 WU/day
1 - 800MHz P3: ~3 WU/day
2 - 600MHz P#s: ~4 WU/day

SetiHide didn't help, and it doesn't run if users are logged off (16 hours a day). All I have left is my home rig, which only puts out ~6 WU/day. I think this means that I'm out of the race to 1000. 🙁
 
Sorry to hear about the losses Tuffguy. 🙁

I am pretty sure ECCp would play nice and TeAm ECCp sure could use the help.
 
can u run eccp on those machines instead? see if they will play nice... u can install firedaemon to run them as a service if those are 2k machines... those 7 machines would do pretty darn good with eccp.. and it'd help TA a lot
 
Dont worry, you did the right thing, it isnt corel's fault, it is SETI. SETI not only consums your CPU, memory and PCI bus bus also crosses lines with other programs.

put eccp on them!
 
Sorry to hear that, TuffGuy. Losing 30+ WU's per day sucks but work is more important than SETI production. Like others have said, maybe run another DC program instead? Seems the ECCp team wants you. 🙂
 
Thats too bad..... Maybe you could split some of the resources and put them towards the Folding@Home project. TeamAnandTech needs some help moving up the charts. We would love to have you!!

 
I suggest ECCp also.. we just got passed by ars technica! arg! if we don't act now they will be untouchable in ECCp just like they are in seti :\
 
Do you know what other programs it affects?



<< Dont worry, you did the right thing, it isnt corel's fault, it is SETI. SETI not only consums your CPU, memory and PCI bus bus also crosses lines with other programs.

put eccp on them! >>

 
That's really a bad! 🙁
Yeah you should try any of the other projects to at least get them doing something for TA! 🙂

The only good thing about it is that I'll have a chance of catching you! 😉

Joking aside don't give up, try a nother project, and maybe there will be an update to the Seti client
that will address a few of these shortcomings, and then you can get them back on!


Paf
 


<< Do you know what other programs it affects?



<< Dont worry, you did the right thing, it isnt corel's fault, it is SETI. SETI not only consums your CPU, memory and PCI bus bus also crosses lines with other programs.

put eccp on them! >>

 >>



to name a few off the top of my head: rtcw, virtual dub, adobe premeier, windows(seti brings any system to a halt, me, 2k, xp, anything)
 
TuffGuy, sorry to hear about the shutdowns. 🙁

gogeeta13

<windows(seti brings any system to a halt, me, 2k, xp, anything) >

Please get your facts straight. :|

SETI does NOT slow any Windows system to a halt. I and many many others are running SETI on various Windows Platforms with NO, absolutely NO problems or slowdowns.

Yes, there ARE programs that have problems interacting with SETI. There were programs (very few) that had problems interacting with RC5 also.

Corel products, and Outlook 2000(on Win2K and possibly XP) are several that I know of. Outlook is only a problem if you have off-line folders enabled. If you can turn off off-line folders, it shouldn't be a problem.

Best recommendation is to setup a test machine with the applications you are concerned about, and do some testing before a full blown implementation.
 
I'm sorry RS2B, but I agreed with Gogeeta about SETI bringing down Windows (98, ME and XP) to a crawl, that was the main reason that I lost my 35 PIII 1 GHZ fleet (Win 98 SE) at work, and that's also the reason that my son keeps shuting down Seti at his pc (XP), and I have to do the same here in my own pc in order to surf or work with it. Even my oldest son that is not into pcs like myself or my youngest complains about Seti in his pc (ME). I have plenty of memory on all my pcs (max out at 512, PIII 750 (2) and 1 GHZ) and my own is an AMD XP 1500+ with 512 RAM DDR.
So please tell me if you have something different in your pcs that makes Seti not to affect any OS please let us know.

Thanks and best regards

Eltano
 
FWIW, I had WP on one of my boxes for a short time and took it off because it became very flakey (Freezes and GPF's) and now that WP is gone, it's still flakey. Guess I'll have to Blow off Windows and start over again. Corel SW has always been buggy, good stuff but buggy none the less. 🙁
 
There could be some issues with antivirus software and SETI if the antivirus program is configured to check for viruses continuously, including files "on the fly". Something like that would make it seem like SETI is at fault because removing it would appear to solve the problem. Perhaps that is the problem is some folks' cases?
 
Eltano,

I have Seti running on the following configurations without it effecting my windows performance:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 512MB RAM Windows 2000
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 128MB RAM Windows 98SE
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ 256MB RAM Windows 2000
AMD 1.3GHz T-Bird, 256MB RAM Windows 2000
AMD 1.33GHz T-Bird 256MB RAM Windows 2000

At work we are running it on a variety of machines on Windows 2000 from a PII266 to PIII600 and they run without problems. We don't use Corel Wordperfect and we don't use offline folder support in Outlook.
 



<< to name a few off the top of my head: rtcw, virtual dub, adobe premeier, windows(seti brings any system to a halt, me, 2k, xp, anything) >>



i think you have a system problem...not seti......RTCW and all windows always works great on my system
 
Ray,

I dont want to get in a flame fest, but you need to take your head out of the sand. Try shutting down seti and performing your daily tasks and see how much performance you were being denied. Not only are single tasks hard, but even with 512ddr ram, It woudl nearly crash windows when i switch from photoshop to golive, or IE. And I tested it on all 4 of my PCs(at that time 98se, 2k, 2k, XP). I am sure most of you have gotten used to SETIs slowdowns, but considering how much time and money i spend for fast computers, I am not gonna let a stupid program screw me over, UD was almost as bad as SETI too, hence why i dont run that anymore either..

Considering outlook and corel dont have fatal conflicts with any other programs on windows, and seti does have other problems with other programs, it is clearly SETI not corel or MS.

Poof,

No, tried turning off NAV and all other programs like that.



Sorry guys, but SETI is just a badly programmed client, and you cant even submit or get new WUs when you want to. ECCp doesnt even need to download anything, it just uploads small DPs(2600 DPs take less than 500KB)
 
gogeeta13, You still sound very bitter! I'm sorry things haven't gone your way! But, Ray is right! I have 27 systems running SETI and it behaves very nicely with all versions of Windows you mentioned. If your system is properly configured you don't even know it is running in the background! There may be situations like what TuffGuy has run into, but they are few and far between. If that were not the case S@H would not still be having so much success even with the bandwidth problems!

You are not making friends for ECCp with your attitude!
 
trying to make friends is futile, we have begged and pleaded for help for months, it is apparent that we are pretty much stuck.

I am stating only the truth about my expiriences, I am a system builder by trade, and probably know better then 99% of this forum. I am not attacking seti because it is an opposing dc project, I am attacking seti because it completely brings any system i have tried it on, to it's knees, then it kicks it in the side and snaps in neck(well, maybe not that, but it sounded cool😉)
 
I am surprised you notice a slow down using UD... i have never noticed any slowdown at all....



<< Ray,

I dont want to get in a flame fest, but you need to take your head out of the sand. Try shutting down seti and performing your daily tasks and see how much performance you were being denied. Not only are single tasks hard, but even with 512ddr ram, It woudl nearly crash windows when i switch from photoshop to golive, or IE. And I tested it on all 4 of my PCs(at that time 98se, 2k, 2k, XP). I am sure most of you have gotten used to SETIs slowdowns, but considering how much time and money i spend for fast computers, I am not gonna let a stupid program screw me over, UD was almost as bad as SETI too, hence why i dont run that anymore either..

Considering outlook and corel dont have fatal conflicts with any other programs on windows, and seti does have other problems with other programs, it is clearly SETI not corel or MS.

Poof,

No, tried turning off NAV and all other programs like that.



Sorry guys, but SETI is just a badly programmed client, and you cant even submit or get new WUs when you want to. ECCp doesnt even need to download anything, it just uploads small DPs(2600 DPs take less than 500KB) >>

 
Gogeeta,

As a system builder by trade also I have to tell you that I have not had the experiences you have had with Seti. We specialize in building systems for Government and Education customers who demand uptime and compatibility since they are running old software to being with. I have one customer who is running Seti on over 600 Celeron 433 Machines (before anyone asks I told him about the TeAm) and has over 40,000 WUs completed. They are running 98SE. I didn't even know they were running Seti until just a couple of months ago. They have been running it for over 2 years. Oddly enough we haven't gotten an inordinate number of service calls. In fact we actually receive less from them than many of our non DC running customers.
 
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