setiathome  

Re: slow woes

Jeff
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:37:07 -0700


I would also suggest downloading Sandra, it is a benchmarking program, then
run the memory, cpu and drive benchmarks and see if anything looks real
strange. you may also try downloading Seti all over again case something went
wrong with the download, With a 400 MHZ PII you should be able to avg. under
at least 20 hours i would guess, I thought perhaps just under 18 or so, but
others may be closer. It has been quite a while since I ran a PII but it was
better then what you are showing. Sandra is available at
http://www.3bsoftware.com/ and it will give you several choices to compare
your performance with other standard configurations. Simply look for one that
is similar, or perhaps that you can guestimate if yours is near where it
should be.
good luck
NØXDW

PS 260 MB of free space sounds like a disk that is almost full or quite
small... you may want to run the disc clean up wizard on it.

Mountain Man wrote:
Hi,  I'm new here, so apologies in advance if this is the umpteenth time
you've seen this question.

I just started with setiathome.  I'm running at 400MHZ Pentium II,
Windows '98 system with 256MB of RAM.  I've got the program set to run
in screensaver mode with graphics off.  To my dismay the first workunit
took over 93 CPU hours to complete :(     My second unit is 23% complete
and has used 20 hours :((   I've tried some different things - killing
all programs except setiathome for overnight run, rebooting the
machine.  I don't typically stay connected to the net.  I have 260MB of
free disk and defragged not too long ago.

Can someone suggest why my machine might be running so slow?  Also, does
anyone have recommendations on CPU/memory monitoring software?  Any help
much appreciated  :)

Thanks,
Elby

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