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Watch out for TSR's

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Kris

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I suppose most people have noticed this, and it's probably been discussed, but maybe some newer seti users will benefit.

I have been running seti on a newer Dell 8100 with the fancy 866m p3. This has 512k instead of 256k and runs at 133 with some data prefetch etc etc. Point is, it should be a pretty quick machine for seti.

It was turning in a wu in 22 to 26 hours.

That's not 'pretty quick' for this processor.

I turned off Kazaa and Norton, so I am not sure which was the culprit, but anyway, times are typically less than 6 hours now. That's even a little faster than I hoped for.

Anyway, if anyone is getting discouraged because they can't rack up wu's as fast as they think they should, maybe some TSR's are slowing you down, it might be worth a look.
 
I've never had a problem with Norton, but I know for a fact that Morpheus and Kazaa are HUGE leeches on your system resources. Whenever I help people with their computers, I make sure that they don't load by default when windows starts.
 
I have had Morpheus running in the background on my Athlon 1800+ and it hasn't effected WU time hardly at all. I don't have it launch at boot up, but I have had running all day before and it may have added a couple of minutes on my time.
 
I wonder if Kazaa is more demanding than Morpheus? I thought they were basically the same, but I don't know for sure.
 
UH OH I have nortons running as well on my P2 and today was my slowest WU yet. 25 hours. For some reason this computer doesnt like me. Think Ill stick with the amd. Thanks for the input gonna try the next WU without the nortons running and see what happens.:Q
 
i don't think that any p3 has data prefetch, would be cool if they did... and a nice fast FSB... /me thinks banias will be like that

haven't had much of a problem with morpheus running.
 
Morpheus has never caused any problems when I've run it... AV programs are typically murder on SETI times though.
 
I believe Kazaa has a memory leak in it's code. ie it uses up your memory without deallocating it so it just keeps eating and never gives back to the community. I thought the same was true for morpheus but I could be wrong. I suggest switching to morpheus in any case as it doesn't contain spyware like kazaa. If you want to leave your music program running you should close and restart it every once and a while, this will make windows dump all memory allocated by that program. Hope that helps
 
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