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SETIDriver Questions

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Nighthawk69

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Hey all-

I have a few Q's about the SETIDriver program and the CLI client:

1. What settings should I use for SETIDriver?
2. Does SETIDriver run my CLI automatically when it loads, or do I have to run my CLI manually?
3. If I use the '-verbose' command line, does it slow down the processing of the CLI?

Anything else I need to know if appreciated as I'm enw to the CLI interface.

Thanks!
 
When you startup SetiDriver, it'll ask you where your CLI executable is and will use that. By default, it sets you up for caching 1 WU, so you may want to change that right away in the configuration screen that comes up. Also, when you first start it, you will need to be patient because say you ask it to cache 5 WUs for you... it will first start working on a WU while it inturn creates 4 more folders, and downloads a WU in each - all in the background. So you'll see some stuff going on when you start and configure it that first time. After that, it's a pretty quiet little program.

You won't need to specify any parameters like -verbose with it because it gives the option to view your progress using it (there's a checkbox) and/or by using something like Setispy.

Hope this helps?
 
I had troubles getting the driver working right, until the last time. I downloaded the driver, downloaded the cli into the same folder. started the driver, it ask for the seti.exe hit cancel, or ok, until you get to the driver window, set the cache to what you want, then hit transmit.

Most other people can explain it better, but that's how I had to do it..

 
Thanks! I think I've got it going now.. once it's done downloading WU's will the DOS Box always be open as it works? Or will SETI Driver do it's stuff in the background and just show the icon in the system tray?

Thanks again!
 
Yes! Once all those WUs are down, all the little dos boxes will go away and you'll be left with the icon. If you click on the icon, you'll be able to see your configuration (and progress - if you selected SetiDriver to display it to you via that little checkbox). In fact... just passing your mouse over the icon will display your %complete!

[EDIT: Oh... and there is an option (checkbox) for "hide processing" that makes sure those little DOS boxes don't show up!]
 
UPDATE: It says my first WU is only gonna take 2hrs 20mins! GEEEZZZ!!! Time to beat everybody! TA is gonna kick smoe butt!
 
Heh heh... hold your horses buddy! They all start out fast like that at the beginning of a WU! Real fast... then it hits a pulse or triplet or is a low angle range WU and it slows down considerably. But overall it is tons faster than the GUI.

For your setup, you should hopefully get WUs in under 4hrs hopefully. 🙂
 
It means you're on the air and rollin'!!! You're good to go! 😀

BTW, the blue icon is new with this latest version of Setidriver. Alot of people like it. Before it was a straight up and down green radar when it was running okay and a tilted green radar when it was ready to transmit. It was red for a problem.
 

You may want to cache about three days worth of w/u's in case of a server failure. It's not unheard of 😉. If you store over five days worth, the old one's may be considered lost and be reissued to someone else. In that case, you will probably not get credit for the duplicate.
Very nice rig you have, looks like it's rocking along just fine 😎

Phiton
 
I don't know if it's true or not but someone said that since so many people were running caching programs that seti was waiting 16 days now before reissuing wu's. This is just what I've heard so take it as that.🙂

Edit: I myself cache 5 days worth of wu's, which so far has always been plenty to get me through the server outages.🙂
 
And Phiton - you'll always still get credit for your WU, even if someone else posts a result for it. The current set of WUs have probably been recycled about 2-3 times - mainly so they get "independent" verification of the results. The only time it'll register as a duplicate is if you've run the same WU twice and try to upload it both times or there's some data server problem and your upload gets gummed up and it sortof got it (but didn't give you credit) and then you try to upload it again, and it complains. This last case hasn't happened that often but it does happen.
 


<< Strangely enough my WU time just went up to over 8 hrs from around 3... very wierd! >>



I told you!! 😀

Now see... you're addicted! There's no turning back! You're gonna be staring at the progress bar all night... heh heh. When they did the beta test on the v3.0 client, that behavior was reported, ie., real fast at the beginning, then it slows down, then it speeds up, then slows down, etc. I believe it scans through the first part of the WU, probably looking for gaussians, then comes back around and starts looking for triplets and pulses. If it finds them, it'll start munchin' on them before going through the rest of the WU the same way.

Also, if your WU has what they call a &quot;very low angle range&quot; (you can find this value by actually looking at the file workunit_sah with a text editor and finding the value for &quot;angle range&quot;, and very low ones are less than 0.1) then people have reported very long WU times in comparison with their &quot;normal&quot; times.

All in all, you will get a much wider range of WU times with 3.0 than we've seen with 2.x.
 
Ya.. I'm addicted now... it's down to only having 1hr left now, LOL 😀

Does more RAM make it crunch faster? I don't see how, but thought I'd ask anyway...

Oh, and with the CLI my windows sounds arent all wierd sounding and garbled like they were with the normal version of SETI@Home.
 
Nighthawk69 more ram won't make seti any faster. Running your ram with faster memory timings will. Make sure the ram is set for cas2 if it'll handle it. I'm sure someone familiar with your particular motherboard can tell you exactly what settings to use for the best performance.🙂

You don't want to up the priority settings for seti. It'll slow everything else you do on the computer down to a crawl.
 
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