Re: slow woes

[Bruce Hudgens]

I retired a system similar to yours.  I had a 400 MHz P-II that was running 
v2.x WUs in about 31 hrs with the graphics enabled.  The times dropped to 
15-18 hrs with the graphics disabled.  Version 2.x WUs ran about 30% faster 
that v3.x WUs do now.

I have several questions.  1) What operating system are you using?  2) Do 
you have other programs running that are actively crunching numbers or 
doing I/O?  3) Do you have power saving enabled that could drop the speed 
on your processor and/or turn off your disk drives?

If you are running NT4/Win2K/XP, you can start the task manager.  Go to 
processes and see what processes are using CPU time.  If you are running 
Win9x, then it is more challenging. You will need to find a third party 
program that will monitor CPU activity.

Something is seriously wrong with your setup.  I would check your 
BIOS.  Also, I would get a benchmark program and see if your computer is 
running at the expected speed.  You might find a program on ZDnet or maybe 
you or one of your friends will have a CD with a benchmark.  ZD used to 
send them to people who (re)subscribed to their magazines.  Just a thought, 
go into your BIOS and make sure your L1 and L2 caches are enabled.  I had a 
computer that would sometimes turned them off when it crashed hard.

Bruce
20,000+...

At 08:25 PM 4/18/2002 -0600, you wrote:

>For what it's worth...I'm running a system nearly identical to yours, which
>has just had the hard drive re-formatted.  The Seti Unit I'm running now is
>at 62% and it has taken 132 hours so far.  My units always average close to
>200 hours.  So, what am I doing wrong???
>
>You guys are talking about 15+ hours, I'm talking 200+, what's up with that?
>
>Laura Smith
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Schoenherr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 6:51 PM
>Subject: RE: slow woes
>
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> >
> > Strange!!  Your times should be down around 15 hours or so.
> > Subject: slow woes
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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