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SETI Help -- Causes HUGE lags with Wordperfect 8.0 on 1.53ghz XP

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TuffGuy

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I have it installed as a service on the stations at work, but it's causing HUGE problems on stations that run Wordperfect 8.0. So much so that I need to remove it for people to be able to use the stations.

Any suggestions? I would HATE to lose 2 - 1.53ghz XPs due to Wordperfect...
 
I don't know if you can do this, but if you could change the priority of WP8 so it takes priority over seti all the time.
 
I have heard that the Corel products do have problems with Seti and I have never heard a solution. There have been others who have tried and have removed it due to the problems. If you can't figure a way out then don't let the machines just idle you can join ECCp or F@H with those two. Two XP 1.53GHz would help you rise through the ranks in ECCp. I am pretty sure they would be very good in F@H also though I don't know as much about it as I do ECCp.
 
Damn ,yet another program that doesn't like SETI 🙁 ,I hope you find a solution

Is it my imagination or are there more & more programs recently that have priorities lower than SETI?
 
I haven't heard of a solution that really works for SETI client version. I heard that SETI Hide can be setup to stop when a particular program is running. You might give that a try. Stop SETI when Corel products are running.

Or you can switch to the screensaver version of SETI. I never heard of it being a problem.
 


<< Is it my imagination or are there more & more programs recently that have priorities lower than SETI? >>


Actually, Wordperfect has a "normal" priority. It's just a horrible program.
 
Along the same lines, what's the deal w SETI causing general slowness when run with MS Outlook? I remember hearing something about this awhile back, along w a workaround, but can't seem to find it. The problem is pretty bad on my main machine at work (dual P3/933), it "locks up" for up to 10 seconds at a time, then comes back.
 
Depending on how much WordPerfect (or Outlook) is open, you could consider running SetiHide, which has a feature to stop the client if certain processes (which you define in a text file) are running, such as TaskMgr.exe or outlook.exe 🙂

This will stop the client when these programs are open, and so long as they don't leave those programs open all day, then it might be worth it! 🙂

ConfusedBW
 
We need to scoure the forums of other highly active teams to see if we can find a solution to this priority problem.
I'm keeping my eyes open at a few myself ,nothing yet.

Poof
Anything at Arstech?
 
The solution to the Outlook problem is to disable offline folder support. I am not aware of any solution for Wordperfect.
 


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<< Can you hide SetiHide? >>



Yep, you certainly can 🙂

Check out Seti Hide home page 🙂

ConfusedBW >>


looks like i have to go in to work a bit earlier tomorrow... 😀😀😀😀😀😀
 


<< The solution to the Outlook problem is to disable offline folder support. I am not aware of any solution for Wordperfect. >>



That works great unless you have a laptop with a need to use off-line folders like I do. 🙁

Since it is my machine, I just put a SETIDRIVER shortcut on my desktop, stop SETIDRIVER when I need to use Outlook, and start SETIDRIVER back up when I'm done. I used to keep Outlook up all the time, but now I don't. 🙂
 
I have tried several times to get SETI to work with Corel as it is one of the word processors of choice here at work. So far no go and that means I am losing approximately 8-10 wus per day here.

It will completely freeze anything under a 1g and will slow anything above that to a crawl... 🙁


I have not had time for the past month to mess with it. (Have to do it after work hours and have been real busy.)

As to whether or not Corel is a bad program??? :Q

R😛b
 
ishmael2k - Have you tried using SetiHide? If I take Seti off the rigs at work, I lose ~25 WUs a day. 🙁 🙁 🙁
 
Taking a quick look, wp8 has 2 threads running at priority 1. These is not changed even then the normal is pumped up to high, so it's impossible to make a small shortcut setting the priority.

The fix must therefore be done on seti-side...
Taking a look on the latest gui, this is running at priority 2 in background, so even this is too high...

But, depending on number of machines and how often rebooted, you can change the priority on the seti-thread. Atleast one program that can do this in NT is bvslice
With this, you will atleast manage to set seti to the same priority as wp8, and therefore have a much better chance of success...

If this isn't a solution, you can either try setihide, if this program works, or stop/start the service in the day and only run at night...
 
Have not tried Seti-hide, I am thinking of going to a service install as they all log off their pcs and just leave the login screen up and running after hours.

It was also suggested to use the GUI client and have it run only when the screensaver was activated, this won't work for me due to the aforementioned logging off.


I am hoping to have some free time after hours next week to work on it.

R😛b
 


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It was also suggested to use the GUI client and have it run only when the screensaver was activated, this won't work for me due to the aforementioned logging off.

R😛b >>



Under NT/2K/XP, change hkusers\.default\desktop\control panel\ and modify the scrnsave.exe to point to seti's .scr file.
 
I'm wondering if maybe they need to change the SETI code because when compared to some other DC clients, it really isn't an "idle only" program. I've noticed that in linux, by default it runs at ~nice 13-15, which is NOT the lowest priority. Even the readme that comes with the *nix clients say that you can optionally nice the process to 19 in order to truly make it an idle-only client.

This may not completely solve the Corel or Outlook problems (or even the occassional gaming problems), but it would at least make SETI play nice more along the lines of other DC clients.
 
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