a suggestion would be to go into the device manager and look at properties for your hard drive and make sure the dma box has a check mark, seems default is to leave it off and that will cause a general performance hit, and don't get too excited if a single work unit takes longer than expected, and the progress part is normal for seti, i think partly because as it goes through the work unit it compares the section of data with data before and after, and depending on how much before and after, when your near one end or the other there is less data to compare with so should speed up at ends... but i was running me till i installed xp over it and my work units dropped below 6 hours for a bit, and i thought gee xp really is faster, than it stabilized back to about 6 hours... current several day avg. is 6 hour and 3 min. That is with an AMD T-bird running 1100 MHZ. The PIII is running just under 7 hours, but it runs on linux, and the linux client is slightly less efficient, but that machine is clocked at 1035 MHZ and both are running 256 MB of ram. I have tried to optimize the ram settings in the bios, but that should only make small changes to overall time. I am also running XP on a Duron @ 952 MHZ with 384 MB ram and it takes about 6:36 avg. the last several days. so that should give you some rough ideas where it should be possible. Anyhoo good luck. N�XDW
Shane Blundell wrote: > Wow! I am flattered at the huge response I'm getting about this problem. > Sorry to hear that Broc's got a similar problem. Anyways, I'm not that > technologically savvy. I don't know much about BIOS and caching stuff. I > have not tried removing the RAM to see if that changes anything in WU times. > I'm at college and my computer is usually running 24x7, have a couple days > off so I will keep you updated on that when I do it. With my P3800 128MB > RAM (a single 128MB RAM chip) I was just under 13 hours a WU, with the > addition of a single 128MB upgrade, well, I am at just under 40% and it has > taken over 17 hours. I've got plenty of HD space free (multiple GB), though > I don't think that would have much of an effect. I have not noticed > significant slowdowns with other programs. It may or not be related, but I > noticed the difference about the same time I put WinMe (blech!) on my > computer, updated from Win98 2nd edition (WinMe upgrade came first, then RAM > upgrade). As I said before, I really don't know much about the core > software, etc. so I don't mess around with BIOS and registry stuff, etc. > How would I check the BIOS? And, how would I know if there has been some > degradation and how to fix it? Thanks! > > --Shane > > == > Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html > This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. > Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com == Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com
