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Kid's machine slows down[EDIT] Fixed Thanks TeAM:):)

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I have been crunching on my kid's machine, Asus CUSL2, 512 MB Crucial PC133 CAS2, Pentium 3 600E@800, and for most of the month was getting about 8-9 hour WUs. About 5 days ago something weird started. I would look at SetiDriver before going to bed and it would say maybe 3 hours to finish 8 hours total. In the morning that WU would be finished and a new one started but the time to complete will read 3 days and some hours🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁. When I open SetiDriver and click the priority box to something different then the speed picks up again, but only until that WU is done.

It is not just one bad WU, I have not installed any programs on the box. I even shut off virus checking, task manager, PC Probe etc. Only stuff in my tray is SetiDriver, INCd, and the volume control.

One night I even went through the task manager and killed everthing but Seti, Explorer, and one other program that wouldn't die.

I have rebooted numerous times etc, etc. Where else should I look?
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What's the name of the other program that wouldn't die?

Has anything else been installed lately?

What OS?

IF WIn2K, go into Task Manager and check what resources SETI is getting.

Also, you may have been hit with some VLAR (Very Low Angle) WUs, these can take quite a bit longer than usual depending on the OS.
 
Looking on the comment about killing all in task manager except 3, you're running one of the win9x, and not win2k or another NT.

Since the checking about expected done-times often is off, and sometimes terribly off, is it only the expected time that's 3 days and complete in around 9 hours, a couple of hours more for VLAR's?

Another check, does the fan on the cpu still run? I've got a p2 that blew the fan and doubled the times before I found out...

Check if you've set some cpu-speed-down then idle. Check you're either using no screen-saver, or blank screen-saver.
A setting for spin down hd will not interfere, since seti writes to the hd more or less every couple of minutes. Ok, maybe if you're set it to 1 minute, or multiple hd's...
Check you aren't running defragmenting or other things then idle...

Use something like taskinfo (since win9x haven't got a real task manager), and see if seti is getting 99%.
 
Do you have any power saving features like the Hard Drives powering down? This can tremendously add to the times because Seti will basically pause until the HDD spins up and is ready to go each time it accesses the HD. The accesses are short, but pretty frequent over an 8hr WU.

Other than that, it sounds like you got a VLAR or could use a reboot.

BTW, my Win98SE box never showed signs of this, and VLAR only took about 30% more than a normal WU(although in WinXP Pro they take about 10% longer, if that).
 
Thanks for the ideas.

Yes this one is a W98SE box.

I downloaded Another Task Manager and checked it out. There is something called Netropa Keyboard Mgr which is taking up a lot of CPU time. Don't know where it came from. Killed it and found and stopped the startup of it. Everything else shows very low cpu usage with Stimon.exe (which runs the scanner) getting about .35% of cpu. Seti is getting about 97-97% of the cpu time.

I will see what happens tonight.

I have a spare Win XP Pro sitting on my shelf. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and put it on? I ran XP on my laptop for a while and didn't really like it so I went back to Win2K on the lappy.

Thanks again for the suggestions. If nothing else I will rebuild it when I get time.

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Fixed back down to 7-8 hour WUs now! Where and why that keyboard mgr came from who knows. I recommend Another Task Manager for Win98SE. It sure shows where the FLOPS are going. Also only uses less than 1/2% cpu (on my P3-800) when running.

Thanks for the quick help TeAM!

Back to crunching!!

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