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If you run Seti... Run RC5 too...

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AtomClock

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If you would rather run Seti over RC5 then I suggest you run both. I would rather have my CPUs running Seti because of the underlying science associated with it but I have noticed that if I run RC5 and Seti together then Seti gets about 99.5% of all of the processor time. You ask, what good is that? Well, first, those CPU cycles that Seti doesn't use are not wasted and more importantly when the Seti server is down as it seemed to be this morning, my CPUs weren't just sitting idle.

So if you like Seti then run both Seti and RC5... It won't hurt your Seti production and at the same time you can make a small contribution to RC5.

Just my $0.02
 
many of them do - and for those who don't, they often use a caching program such as setique which allows you to download several work units - this way, even in the case of a server outtage, you can still crunch numbers....good suggestion though, and many more followed it before programs such as setique came out which alleviates that problem.
 
Just a comment. Depending on your seti version and your computer, you may just see a seti performance hit by also running RC5.

I have been running both for about a week. When 3.0 GUI came out, I noticed that RC5 would take more resources, and it took forever to finish a seti WU. As soon as I discovered that 3.0 CLI was out, I installed it and everything is happy again. The CLI doesn't seem to be effected by RC5 in the background, and RC5 is working. Have only finished 3 seti work units thus far with this setup but will post my setiq numbers after I get ten or so.

Additional info:
comps: 1 - k63-450, 1 p266 laptop both running win98se
 
eh? what server outage? 😉

Nice try ,but I'm still 100% SETI 🙂
(don't wanta bleed anymore power away from SETI TA! 😛😉)
 
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