Just to take one more whack at a quickly dying horse...I find Setispy to be
an excellent way to monitor the current work unit. It won't decrease your
processing time, but it will give you lots of info in a concise format.
Also a note on Ramdisk98.. It is a fine program. I use it myself. But it
will not decrease your processing time. Seti@home writes to the hard drive
about once a minute. Seti@home is not hard drive intensive so Ramdisk98
really offers minimal benefit. I set windows to shut down the hard drive
and tried to run seti exclusively in the ramdisk to save wear and tear on
the hard drive but had lots of trouble waking up the system (getting the HD
to start up) If randisk cannaot write occassionally to the HD, you will
lose your data.
regards,
Allan
>
> SetiSpy won't make Seti@Home run faster. All it does is monitor the
current
> work unit status. turning off the graphics is what makes the biggest
> difference.
> Also turn off any other non essential programs that load with windows at
> startup like antivirus (do at your own risk), any extra tool bars, etc.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Holmes, Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 4:34 PM
> Subject: RE: P I I I I p4 question
>
>
> >
> > I turned off the graphics (made screen saver "NONE") a long time ago,
and
> it
> > CERTAINLY makes a difference in running times without vs with. ~10 to 12
> > hours vs 24 to 30 running the 3.03 client.
> >
> > Recently installed Setispy. It's a cute program, but do not see any
> > reduction of processing time. How could it? Isn't it actually another
> > program that uses cpu cycles with no benefit to the run time of Seti?
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:03 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: P I I I I p4 question
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 27 December 2000 18:26, you wrote:
> >
> > > > I need any info on speeding my machine up, I have a k6-2 500, 256mb
of
> > > memory, i have already installed cacheman....(if you have any info of
> the
> > > best settings for this that would be a great help.) anything such as
> > > overclocking or changing my bios.....( i have already been to the seti
> > > speed page but some of that stuff is confusing) so anything would be
> > > great!!!
> > >
> > > I am currently doing work units in about 22-25 hours...with ver.3.03
> > > before i was doing unit in 11-13 hours....
> >
> > One of the machines I have SETI@home running on is a P1-133Mhz machine
and
> > I'm now doing one work unit every 20 hours or so. Setispy is what is
> making
> > the difference. I was averaging one every 50+ hours, but as soon as I
> turned
> >
> > of the graphic and started using SetiSpy this thing is going like crazy.
I
> > can't wait to install it on the faster machines at work!
> >
> > I have a Cel-500Mhz Linux box at work that turns out a work unit every
ten
> > hours, but the windows machines take about 20 hours. They're the same
> speed
> > -
> > 500Mhz. The program SetiSpy is really making a difference.
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
> worthless,"
> > "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> >
> > Linus Torvalds
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