Question about setiathome...cmdline.exe

[BMdoobieW]

Is it normal to have two instances of the file "setiathome-3.03.i386-winnt-cmdline.exe" running as I do? Photo here: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/bmw9/tmngr.jpg The second one always stays at zero CPU usage. I use SetiDriver.

 

[mechBgon]

I've never seen that happen before. Does the idle copy come back when you kill it off?

BTW, what's "Fleavirus.exe," a antivirus program (I hope) ?

 

[BMdoobieW]

I thought the idle copy usually goes away when I exit SetiDriver and then kill the idle exe, but just now I tried that and as soon as I restarted SetiDriver the idle copy came back.

About fleavius.exe, you scared me for a second there, but trusty Google calmed my fears with this: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/kerberos/fleavius.html

 

[mechBgon]

Hmm, SETIDriver's not set to "Maximum Processes: 2", is it? I tried that on my machine here and Win2k's Task Manager is showing the two clients splitting the CPU time roughly in half. 😕

 

[Smoke]

I think I remember something about this. When you exit SetiDriver, it does not close the CLI. If without rebooting you start SetiDriver up again you will end up with two instances. The author made a post about this once upon a time. 😉

BTW, you notice one of them is using 0 CPU. That was the one that was being used at first. Just a fluk in the programming.