setiathome  

Re: slow woes

Jeff
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 06:07:20 -0700


I just found a download that may show what is going on in a win 9x system,
haven't tried it but i suspect it will give you the equivalent of task
manager in NT/2000/XP.

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2094-9014792.html?tag=lst-0-24

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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