SETI@HOME help

[andyb5]

Hey everyone,
Just started using seti@home and was wondering why the hell its taking so long for each WU....only done 3 so far but took 59hrs combined.I am running a Celeron 566 with 312mb RAM....its only a lappy so no slow jokes.....Anyone any ideas on speeding this up a bit??? any windows tweaks you can think of??? Obviously overclocking is pretty much out of the question!
Any help would be appreciated!
Andy

 

[ElFenix]

do you have the graphics showing? the graphics eat about 50% of computing time, so turning them off helps out a lot. the way to keep them from showing is either run it all the time and then just keep it in the tray and setting your screensaver to something other than an OpenGL screensaver. if you're running it as screensaver only, go into the screensaver properties and have it blank screen in 5 minutes or less. this is not the same as powering off the screen, windows will still draw graphics even with the screen off.

 

[aiex]

OK yea that does seam a little slow. First of all are you using the Cli?? If not i recomend using it with seti driver that should give you a large increase in performance

If you really dont want to use the cli then set the gui screensaver to run all the time and go to blank after 0mins

Those should be the most noticeable differences but there are many otehr tweaks that they have over at DSLreports (not that i like linking to out race enemies but here
Hope that helps

Ai3x

 

[Assimilator1]

A quick fix 1st before anything else

I bet you are running the GUI version(screensaver) with the graphics showing?
If runing as a a screensaver ,go to display properties,screen saver,screen saver settings ,enable 'blank screen' & set to less than 6 mins.
If running as a background process only ,simply minimise the window!

Now watch as your WU times are cut in 1/2:Q (drawing the graphics takes loads of cpu power!)

 

[Assimilator1]

Dang! ,2 people jumped in before me!

Btw the CLi(text) version is about 25% faster than the GUI 1 even without it graphics showing!.
Installing the CLi along with SETIDriver to store some WU's is a good way to optimise your output
SETIDriver info & other SETI stuff

 

[Sukhoi]

My C433 takes anywere from 15-17 hours/WU average, so I'd think you'd be around 20 hours/WU with the CLI and SETI Driver.

Welcome!

 

[andyb5]

Thanks everyone...I normally run seti in the background with other things running too.....lappy gets a little warm when left on 24/7. Yeah I use the normal install but looking into another now....if I use the usual install and close it off in the background so no graphics show isnt that the same???
Sorry for the stupid questions but still just learning

 

[Assimilator1]

Set to 'always run' & then minimsed will be the same as enabling 'blank screen' when in screensaver mode yes

 

[IBhacknU]

as a comparison, I get about 11-13 hours on a 600 mhz (66mhz FSB) and 512MB of memory.

using the command line interface (CLI) and SetiHide