Seti Problems

[htmlmasterdave]

I have a 486 with 16 megs of ram, and I want to run seti. Is there any possible way I can get it to run? It won't even come up since I only have 16 megs

 

[Wiz]

Even if you add more ram that machine is going to take a very long time to do a work unit. By long time I mean weeks or months per work unit. What OS are you running on it?

 

[htmlmasterdave]

win95 osr1 right now i have slackware on there too, but i haven't got the stupid pnp nic working yet, i know it would be slow, but, i just want to try

 

[Wiz]

You have to find 16 megs more ram.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

I got the command line version working, it downloaded, and it says it's processing, so, I guess it's working. Shows what you guys know

 

[Fingers]

are you using orangekids proxy. I would love to see how long this takes. If it finishes it in 1 week I would be suprised. well every little bit helps. glad to have you 486 crunchin for the team. Just think if we all added a 486 to our heards.... we would have higher electricity bills

 

[Wiz]

htmlmasterdave, just going by what the seti official faq states - it says you need 32 megs so that's what I passed on to you.
Glad you got it to work, knock yourself out man!

 

[htmlmasterdave]

LOL, yeah, i know I have ud running on all my other comps, a tbird 1.3, a k6-2 500, celeron 500 and pentium 250 mmx. Once ud is done, i'll be actually getting a lot done for seti



<< are you using orangekids proxy. I would love to see how long this takes. If it finishes it in 1 week I would be suprised. well every little bit helps. glad to have you 486 crunchin for the team. Just think if we all added a 486 to our heards.... we would have higher electricity bills >>

 

[htmlmasterdave]

hasn't even gone past 0.00% in like an hour... maybe it's not working, or it's REALLY slow, LOL. Oh, and i just joined team anandtech

 

[Wiz]

LOL @ "Once ud is done,"
When do you really expect those corporations to be "done" using your cpu's?

 

[Wiz]

I am sure it probably is working. I would expect it to go beyond 0.00% in less than 12 hours. YMMV

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Well, the cancer research part atleast



<< LOL @ "Once ud is done,"
When do you really expect those corporations to be "done" using your cpu's? >>

 

[Baldy18]

Would you ever think about switching just for hte next two months for our race against DSLR Team Starfire? Please.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Well, i don't want to fall behind on my ud team, how about my server and tbird as a contribution?



<< Would you ever think about switching just for hte next two months for our race against DSLR Team Starfire? Please. >>

 

[Bigwoofer]

<< hasn't even gone past 0.00% in like an hour... maybe it's not working, or it's REALLY slow, LOL. Oh, and i just joined team anandtech >>



Welcome aboard the TeAm htmlmasterdave!

 

[htmlmasterdave]

sup? I might even be getting a sixth computer... a pentium 133 to help out, LOL



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<< hasn't even gone past 0.00% in like an hour... maybe it's not working, or it's REALLY slow, LOL. Oh, and i just joined team anandtech >>



Welcome aboard the TeAm htmlmasterdave! >>

 

[medic]

Well, i don't want to fall behind on my ud team, how about my server and tbird as a contribution?

Sounds GREAT!!!

WELCOME!

 

[htmlmasterdave]

And, don't forget my 486



<< Well, i don't want to fall behind on my ud team, how about my server and tbird as a contribution?

Sounds GREAT!!!

WELCOME! >>

 

[htmlmasterdave]

the 486 hasn't gone past 0.00% yet..... hopefully it's actually doing something. Does anyone here run it on such a slow machine? it's a 486sx 33mhz

 

[Baldy18]

<< Well, i don't want to fall behind on my ud team, how about my server and tbird as a contribution? >>



You got yourself a deal.

 

[Assimilator1]

htmlmasterdave
Welcome to the team & thanks for you contribution

re your 486 ,SETI when running uses 14-16Mb of RAM ,so you system or SETI itself will be constantly accessing the HDD (swap file) ,this will massively increase the WU time.
The slowest system I have run SETI on is a Pentium 100 laptop with 40Mb of RAM ,this took 79hrs to do 1 WU!.

Btw I don't know much about 486's ,do they have a built in FPU(co-processor)? ,because SETI needs this! (am I thinking of a 386 with a seperate FPU?)

Good luck with ya 486

 

[Crazee]

There were some 486's that didn't have FPUs they were designated 486sx. There weren't as many of those running around as there were 386sx. I can't imagine how long it is going to take to run a WU on this machine, but it should be interesting to find out.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

NOOOO! It doesn't... maybe that is why it doesn't lool like it's doing anything? Wouldn't it crash though?



<< htmlmasterdave
Welcome to the team & thanks for you contribution

re your 486 ,SETI when running uses 14-16Mb of RAM ,so you system or SETI itself will be constantly accessing the HDD (swap file) ,this will massively increase the WU time.
The slowest system I have run SETI on is a Pentium 100 laptop with 40Mb of RAM ,this took 79hrs to do 1 WU!.

Btw I don't know much about 486's ,do they have a built in FPU(co-processor)? ,because SETI needs this! (am I thinking of a 386 with a seperate FPU?)

Good luck with ya 486 >>

 

[MaxSiren]

Hate to break it to you, but your 486sx (a real jewel in it's day) can't compute Seti WU's because of a lack of an FPU.

I know you already suspected this, just wanted to confirm.

System like that makes a great solitaire console though!!!

 

[sduguid]

It's too bad it won't compute a WU just so we could see how long it would take

I used to have a linux machine wtih a Cyrix 5x86 running at a whopping 100 mhz! With version 3.03 of the Seti client, it took an average of 9.5 days to complete a WU. That's an awful long time but it did complete 50 or so WU's before I upgraded to another machine and took it out of service.

Remember,

Every WU is sacred
Every WU is good
If a WU is wasted
God gets quite irate