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Actaeon

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Hi 🙂

I decided since I leave my computer on all the time, might as well do something productive with it, so I decided that I would like to join the Anandtech Seti group!

I followed all the steps, how do I know its working?

Thanks!
Actaeon
 
First off, welcome to the TeAm Actaeon 🙂

If you have sucessfully installed the SETI program you will see a little green ant. dish in your system tray 🙂
 
Ah, Yes, I've got that part done.

Little blue bar on the bottom says 7.98%. I think its working?

Once it hits 100%, I've completed one work unit?
 
Thank you!

I have a question, Is there any difference between the prioritys? If I set it anything higher than Low, system becomes really laggy. I wanted to see my CPU performance in the taskmanager, and even on low, its 100%, is there a difference? I would like to run this program when I'm sleeping and just surfing the web.

Thanks!
Actaeon
 
Uh...may want to point to one of the public seti queues. Just search a bit and you'll find a few threads. I think the SETI link in my sig mentions them, too. At the very least, set SETIDriver to cache a couple days' worth of WUs.
 
Welcome to the AnandTech DC Team! 😀

The priority adjustment should probably stay at "low." I haven't seen any meaningful increases in SETI performance by raising it. In my experience, I can leave SETI running while gaming or most any other activity without any ill effects, with one odd exception: on a Windows2000 system with Office2000, Outlook will have aggravating pauses if SETI is running. Evidently there is some background process in Outlook that runs at very low priority on a Win2k system.

When SETI is running, it seems to use about 16Mb of RAM, and I see you have 512Mb so that looks great. Hopefully you will see work units finishing in the range of 4:45 to 6:00 hours depending on the "angle range" of the particular work unit. 🙂
 
I put my desired cache size to 20, is that how many work units I'm doing before I start downloading more, how high should I set it?

I'm running a 1.2ghz athlon, my computer is on 24/7, so, how many workunits do you think I should be able to do in a day?

I'm rather curious, whats the average a day among here?

Thanks for all the greetings and advice!
 
I now have a Duron 1GHz that I OC'ed to 1.33 and you can see its results here. It's using PC133, so it is somewhere in the ballpark of your 1200MHz system, and it would be doing about 5 WUs per day if I just used it for browsing and normal stuff. When gaming, I generally switch SETI off because it really doesn't get anything done when I'm gaming, and so my WU times are abnormally long.

On that page, note the column marked "AR," which stands for "Angle Range." Work units recorded at a high angle range, where that value is above 1.0, complete relatively fast, while 0.4-0.5 is "typical" and less than ~0.05 is the dreaded VLAR (very low angle-range) which are extra tough and chewy. So the WU speeds are going to depend somewhat on the angle range.

One utility I always like is SETISpy, because it gives some interesting info about the work unit, the system performance, and tells what the AR is. You can put SETISpy in the same folder as SETIDriver, then click the "Use SETI Spy" checkbox and start SETISpy. It will report on the current WU. You can get SETISpy from here.

edit: I should mention that the WUs with times above 7 hours are from previous rig, a dual-Pentium3 733 system. And the stats page you're seeing there is an example of a SETI Que, which you can join (look at the sticky thread up top).
 
Welcome to the Team Actaeon. 😀😀

Originally posted by: Actaeon
I'm running a 1.2ghz athlon, my computer is on 24/7, so, how many workunits do you think I should be able to do in a day?
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Your machine will probably crunch around 4 WU's a day (see some benchmark results for comparison).
 
Welcome to the Seti Team 😀

It looks like you have everything set up now 🙂

If you use one of the Public Seti Queues then you will always have a stash of Work Units for you in case there are any problems with Berkeley.

Confused
 
Thanks, I feel very welcomed 🙂

I finished my 1st WU earlier this morning, now I'm working on my 2nd 🙂

I just hope I can get AT's Team a few extra Work Units here and there on my spare time.

I have a question about the "Angle Range", I'm using SETISpy, and I looked at the "Telescope path", My AR says .008. You said anything lower than a .05 is bad.... So.. is that horrible?

Thanks!
Actaeon
 
Thanks for joining the TeAm! It's great when somebody joins up and then posts here to say "hello". 😀

Nothing you can do about the low angle range wu's, don't worry about them....they come and they go. We just don't like them because they generally take longer to process....but I run them anyway because this is science. My only advice is to make sure you have your system set to a blank screensaver or to turn off monitor after a short as possible time. Turning off all graphics is the best thing you can do to speed up wu analysis time.
 
Yep, it's a VLAR (very low angle range) WU. Just grin and bear it, those can take a lot longer to process, and don't judge your PC's performance on those either.

And as far as the cached WUs, as long as there is a connection, the SETIDRIVER program will send/receive WUs as needed if AutoTransmit is turned on. Where the cached WUs really come into play is when the Internet or your network or the SETIQ servers are down, and you can't get fresh WUs. Then SETIDRIVER will keep working on the 20 WUs that you have until the connection is restored and you can download more fresh WUs.

If your PC is doing 4 WUs a day, and you have a 20 WU cache, you can handle 5 days of crunching without needing to get more. Whcih should be enough time to get whatever problem (connection, Internet, SETIQ servers, etc.) fixed.

And again, Welcome to Team Anandtech! 😀
 
welcome to the team, Actaeon!

a really cool page has a timer for you to work out how long it should take for you to finish a work unit. it sounds like you have it all worked out and crunching. awesome.

😀
 
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