Topic: SETI Thread Part III (Read 198273 times)

AJTK · « **Reply #520 on:** May 29, 2004, 08:18:43 am »

Brag, Brag, Brag!

I may only have one lil 2.8 laptop now, but it pumps one out about every 4-6 hours, causing my avg wu per day to go up about 5% in a month, and has dropped my average time approx 20 minutes in that same month. I wonder if I should have my old 733 STOP doing wu's, as it actually hurts my averages? It takes anywhere from 11 (RARE) to 30 (not quite as rare) hours to turn one out, with the avg being around 19 or so. It is amazing how much faster a new pc will churn these things out. Ive done almost a hundred units in the last month. Of course, I saw where Raven said he was gonna top 1 THOUSAND a freaking DAY later this summer, but for this mere mortal, 100 a month is pretty good, lol!

BTW, Raven is at #46 on the home users list now! Congrats.

Have a nice day!

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #521 on:** May 29, 2004, 11:08:32 am »

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Brag, Brag, Brag!

I may only have one lil 2.8 laptop now, but it pumps one out about every 4-6 hours, causing my avg wu per day to go up about 5% in a month, and has dropped my average time approx 20 minutes in that same month.

Unless that is a Celeron laptop or you are using the screensaver it should be faster than that. I would expect under 3 hours for a P4 (non celeron). A well configured screen saver should add no more than 20% to that number.

If you are using the screensaver minimize the time displaying the graphics, they take about 90% of the processing time when running.

A 2.8 P4 COULD have hyperthreading, which while it would hurt your average time should improve your daily output.

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I wonder if I should have my old 733 STOP doing wu's, as it actually hurts my averages? It takes anywhere from 11 (RARE) to 30 (not quite as rare) hours to turn one out, with the avg being around 19 or so. It is amazing how much faster a new pc will churn these things out.

It depends, are you after good looking stats or are you trying to help the SETI @ Home project or our SETI team? If you are after helping the project (and team) then the maximum output is of primary importance and you should keep the old machine running.

The old 733 is it a PIII? It should be able to do better than that. My mothers PII 350 mhz (which I will soon swap for my #4 machine, upgrading her to an Athlon XP 2400+ and hurting my average

time and output) averages about 16 hours / WU when I can run it. Your 733 should be able to do it in 8 hours, even a Celeron should manage 9-10 hours.

Less than 24 hours ago I replaced the Athlon XP 2100+ in my #3 machine with a Athlon XP 3200+, according to SETIQueue that machine has already improved its average (calculated over 14 days) by 4 minutes and seems to be dropping my historical average by about 4 seconds a day. My early estimate is that it will be doing ~ 2 hrs 10 minutes / WU on average. That should drive my output up to 45-46 WUs/day total. My #2 machine drags my average time up, but I wouldn't think of stopping it (upgrade the dual Athlon XP 2100+ to Athlon MP 2800+ yes, stop it no

). The PII will drag my average time up when I trade my mother but I will be running it until I give it away sometime this summer. Then I will be down to 3 machines and maybe 38 WUs/ day output.

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Ive done almost a hundred units in the last month. Of course, I saw where Raven said he was gonna top 1 THOUSAND a freaking DAY later this summer, but for this mere mortal, 100 a month is pretty good, lol!

Every WU counts. Whether you do 1 a month or a 1000 a day it counts and helps both SETI @ Home and the team.

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BTW, Raven is at #46 on the home users list now! Congrats.

Have a nice day!

Cheating Bostich

, he should be on the business users list. Most of his WUs come from business machines not his home machines.

Almost all of mine were generated by my own machines ( a few came from my mothers machine, which I gave her, and a few from a friends home/small business machines). But I don't (and won't) make the top 1000 home users list.

I am #286 in Canada

286) IKV Nemesis 19528 8.207 years 3 hr 40 min 54.2 sec Sat May 29 00:40:55 2004 Canada

and # 6 in Ontario

6) IKV Nemesis 19532 8.209 years 3 hr 40 min 54.0 sec Sat May 29 02:49:41 2004 Canada

As far as our team is concerned, I used to be at #5. The best I can reasonably hope to do (unless we lose a higher ranked member, which I don't want to happen) is to maintain myself at 6th place. If another business user shows up (like everyone above me) I could easily be knocked down the list, even out of the top 10. But anyone who wants my spot is going to have to work for it

. If they can take it good for them and the team.

AJTK · « **Reply #522 on:** May 30, 2004, 07:46:51 am »

Well, here is the deal. The 733 uses XP Pro, so I have the client running on it, BUT, I also have seti as the screensaver, as it appears that other screensavers have to fight with the seti client for cpu cycles. (The starfield looks like the Enterprise is running out of gas, it stutters) I have the screensaver only stay up for one minute then go blank... Not sure why the time is less than what you think it should be, this is actually a 750, not a 733, but it is a 750 on a 100mhz clock, not 133. Perhaps that is the reason?

The laptop is running XP HOME, so you said I cant run the client. Perhaps that is the reason for the time lag?

Your right of course, the overall seti output SHOULD be the goal, shouldnt it?

Have a nice day!

AJTK · « **Reply #524 on:** May 30, 2004, 05:01:40 pm »

Maybe that is my problem, using the client and screensaver. I will try it without. But that really does not account for the fact that even with running both, the screensaver version still sometimes gets one out as fast as 11 hours. Usually alot longer tho. Ill turn screeny off, see what gives. The 750 has 576 megs of ram, with almost nothing running other than all the XP Pro processes that say that blue bolts from the heavens will strike you head if you dare to turn them off.

Thanks for the info Nemesis. Ill keep plugging away. Im not really worried about stats, I obviously cant get very high up the list, lol. I just wanna be respectable! ALOT of the people in front of me are deadwood, and havent put out units in months/years so it's just a matter of time until I get up to some of you big boys near the top and p00p out.

Have a nice day!

AJTK · « **Reply #526 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:53:03 pm »

lol, i dont think i will be cranking out 1K wu's per DAY anytime soon, rofl! but, im hoping to build a new desktop sometime this year. either with a top o the line hyperlthreading enabled p4 or perhaps an athalon fx64

yeah, over 1000! FINALLY! and my time is still going down down down

HAND!

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #527 on:** June 06, 2004, 10:24:43 pm »

5) Dragon93 25000 33.455 years 11 hr 43 min 22.0 sec Mon Jun 7 02:58:25 2004 United States

Now lets see you get the 50,000 certificate.

Dragon93 · « **Reply #528 on:** June 09, 2004, 07:05:35 pm »

That's gonna be a while there buddy.

Unless I can commandeer some more machines...

The Postman · « **Reply #529 on:** June 17, 2004, 11:03:24 am »

Does anybody know what is going on with the data server? Is this a bandwidth problem on their end? They seem hard pressed to get it to run 48 hours without problems. I can't keep my "service" machines running if they can't keep the server up. As it is I haven't been able to transmit for 2 days on my home machines.

IKV Nemesis D7L · « **Reply #530 on:** June 19, 2004, 09:32:25 am »

June 17, 2004
We are working on fixing the network problems that are resulting in dropped connections to the data server.

June 18, 2004
The campus network folks did some great troubleshooting and narrowed down the problem to a faulty link on the path to our ISP. Repairs have been called in.

I've had trouble sending in but since I use SETIQueue I haven't missed a WU.

The Postman · « **Reply #531 on:** June 19, 2004, 03:41:13 pm »

I have been following their troubles since they began posting. My problem is that I have 3 machines that I can't run any caching on. Everytime the server crashes on their end and one of these 3 machines tries to transmit and can't, it stops running until I can reboot it. I lose more than half of my capacity when those machines don't run. In the meantime I have enlarged my cache by 1 day for the rest of my machines.

Taldren_Admin · « **Reply #532 on:** October 14, 2003, 12:24:59 pm »

And we're off....

Gambler · « **Reply #534 on:** October 14, 2003, 12:33:47 pm »

Drat, if not for Farenheit, I would have had the last post in the second thread.

DreadlordGW · « **Reply #535 on:** October 14, 2003, 01:14:58 pm »

Ok everyone post away.

Gotta get this thread above the old ones

jualdeaux · « **Reply #536 on:** October 14, 2003, 01:22:49 pm »

Heh. It seems that we can only get so many posts before this version of the UBB stops the thread from working well.

Cyberkada · « **Reply #538 on:** October 14, 2003, 02:46:32 pm »

Having said that non-Internet connected machines will not have access, I'm through after SETI I. Most of my machines are behind a fairly ugly milnet firewall and have no access individually. SETI is one of those banned Internet programs. SETI can run but can not receive/ send W/Us.

Oh well, I guess I will have to be Lord God for Life for SETI I for Taldren.

Sethan · « **Reply #539 on:** October 14, 2003, 03:04:17 pm »

Like I said - if you have an issue with it, send Mr. Anderson a note explaining what the issue is and why.

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