Welcome about bobby

[Byte 2.0]

bobby lee bailey jr, glad to have you onboard...let us know if you need any help....

[Phil B]

Welcome to the team Bobby!

[Jomama]

Welcome Bobby, we need your help.
What sort of set-up do you have?

[Black Ice]

i have a dell xps r450,128mb sdram.and it takes about 8 hr to do one scan for seti.

[Jomama]

Ohhh, Bobby, you need to do some tweeking.
first make sure that SETI is set for blanking,its in the setup screen, also with a 450 it can be set to run all the time, unless you are crunching something else.
Also go to http://www.iarsn.com/ and download Task2000, it allows you look at your resources and see whats stealing all of your cpu time.

[bailey]

I set it up for him and it is working as fast as mine, which brings up another problem, mine.
the first two that I did took 16 and 19 hrs to complete, then you told me about the blank screen thing. did that, then the next two I did took only 4.54 hrs to complete, sence then the time has been getting longer, now it is taking 8 to 10 hrs to do one. I have done 14 in a week, and don't like taking so long to do one, nothing is running and the cpu is doing 171megaflops/second, and 3.97 cpu cycles per flop. total size is 3.54terraflops.
how can I drop from 4.5 hrs to 8 hrs and not change anything?

[Byte 2.0]

bailey, your computer running fine, just some times you get a real hard work unit.

My K6-3/450 take anywhere from 12 to 28 hours with this new verison...I only get about 50 mflops on a good day...

The K6-3/450 don't have as good as a floating point as the intell's, however the Duron I have running at gets them done is about 5 hours....If it get a hard unit, it takes about 6.5 hours...

I am upgrading to a Duron or T-Bird next week....I have my k6-3/450 sold.

[Phil B]

byte is definately on the mark with his post but would like to add what I have seen on my machines.
I had the same experience with v2.7 on my p2 machines. They seemed to get more and more difficult w/u's and times were running up to around eighteen hrs. I went back to v2.4 and things are back to normal @ around ten hrs with very little variation.
For the more powerful p3 machines, times are running between four and five hours fairly consistently with v2.7.
I totally agree with byte in that a 450 with completion times of between eight and nine hours would be the norm.
Remember, v2.7 is a beta that was not really supposed to be released to everyone. v3.0 should be out shortly as a final public release. Maybe it will be more consistent.

Happy crunching everbody!

[Byte 2.0]

I am trying a new bench mark program...I listed in on our Alf hunter page. If you have more or better bench marks feel free to list them...

link below...

[bailey]

did some experminting, found with it running full time in the background and still useing the computer for normal operation like surfaceing the internet and right now on pcm, I can look at setispy and see that it is still doing 189 megflops/second. so I guess I don't need to go to the screen saver mode and the blank screen thing to get good performance. found out by my cpu temp, it runs at 43degC when seti is running, and drops 20 deg when it is not running. it is staying at 43 deg all the time now, and sustem is still very stable and rock solid. cpu usage is staying around 98.9 percent as I type.
and I'm back to 4.5 hrs per unit.

[Edited by bailey on 09-18-2000 at 08:53 PM]