questions for the seti guys

[strates]

Ok, I just downloaded the client last night, and started cracking on a K6-210 with 64 megs ram. And now I have formulated a couple questions.

1)Does 1 percent per hour sound unreasonably slow?

2)How often are the stats updated. We are still behind swiss and observer on the seti page.

strates

 

[BurntKooshie]

1%/hour IS slow. You have the graphics disable, assuming its the GUI, right?

Don't worry abuot how often stats are updated at the diff S@H pages....Hellburner takes care of it all

 

[strates]

I have version 2.04, and how would I disable to graphics?

 

[Michael]

Did you set it up to run as a screen saver or to run all the time?

If all the time, is there a green radio telescope in your task bar? If you doubleclick on the telescope, you will have a menu called "settings" with "preferences" as an option.

Are you running other programs that would steal cycles from SETI? I once had a problem installing a client and it installed as a screensaver and then reinstalled as a run all the time client. I turned the screensaver off and it ran just fine after that.

We need to have more info to be able to answer your questions ...

Michael

ps - welcome to the SETI team!

 

[strates]

I have it set up to run all the time, and I double click on the green satalite and it pops up this nifty window that shows a constantly changing 3d graph. I am not running hardly anything on this computer, no virus checker, no mobo monitor. Just ICQ netdetect, diamond video card manager, and seti.

strates

p.s a little better than a percent an hour now. 11.1% in the last 9hr 40 min

 

[Hellburner]

Go into your screen saver settings for S@H and check the blank screen box, after 0 minutes. that will disable the graphics whether they are displayed or not.

 

[blade47]

As for the stats just check here in the forums. Everyday Hellburner is kind enough to list them for us here since the seti team stats pages are way behind.

 

[ElFenix]

strates, those graphics take up more than half of the processor time seti uses. turn them off for much better performance. when i first started i had the graphics running all the time on my pro233, took 3 days to do a WU, then i got smart and turned them off, went to under a day.

 

[Sukhoi]

Yes, make sure you turn the graphics off.

Welcome!

 

[strates]

is there a way to turn them off in the gui. I turned them off in the screen saver, I am now at 21% after 13 hours

strates

 

[Sukhoi]

Just do what Hellburner said, which is:



<< Go into your screen saver settings for S@H and check the blank screen box, after 0 minutes. that will disable the graphics whether they are displayed or not. >>



Then make sure you actually close the GUI window (hit the X when it's maximized) rather than minimize it. Although it seems like you killed SETI, you actually didn't and it will start running again when the screensaver kicks on.

 

[Assimilator1]

Strates

I should just point out that as well as the 'blank screen ' option ,you should know that SETI likes these things to run optimaly (not incl v2.7x beta clients).
Big ,fast L2 cache
High FSB speed
Low memory/chipset latency
Good FPU

Your K6 has a relativley weak FPU &amp; slow L2 cache.I would expect WU times of around 24-26 hrs with EDO RAM .
(reread you post ,is your K6 set at 2x105MHz with SDRAM? ,if so then it'll be much quicker than the above time)
BTW You'll have a much better idea of WU times when you've done about 5 of them

Oh yeah ,welcome to the search &amp; our team

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

Personally I don't even have SETI set to be a screen saver at all. In the preferences I have it set to run all the time. Can't even tell it's running since it's a low priority on the system. I can leave it running while playing games and don't notice a difference. This way it uses every possible cycle it can get that's not being used.

 

[strates]

Assimilator: I can not remember what exactly I set it at, this computer has been sitting at my grandparents for a long time, But I think I used 2.8 x 75. But thanks for the info, I finally realized why mine is turtling along.

strates