Re: SETI@home doesn't finish Data Units

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From: Dave Storey
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:00

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In article <pwcc3.2217$mj5.23454@news1.mia>, Aninoquisi
<star@watcher.invalid> writes
>The 0 minute setting, is to blank the screen immediately after the
>screensaver begins. Half of the time the screensaver is running, is spent on
>the graphics.

Actually, having measured it, it's more like 2/3rds to 3/4s 8<.

> Starting the program, then minimizing it, takes as long as
>allowing it to run maximized. 

Yep, it does all the graphics when minimised, and can be a real pig to
maximise again (since it's too busy with graphics to notice a mouse
click 8<,)

>There is no way, yet, to initiate the program
>automatically, except in screensaver mode. A 133MHz system should average
>about 60 hours, to process a block (if set to run all the time, and blank
>the screen immediately). My 233 takes an average of 35 hrs.

On an 'idle' system, with no graphics, and a Gen-U-Ine Intel Pentium
Pro, 2 or 3, you should manage about 5k/clockspeed (in Mhz), so a 233
should do a block in ~21 hours. If it's taking 35, then your system is a
bit busy 8>.

>Jim
<snip>
Rgds
Dave Storey

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From: Dave Storey <dave@quik.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: SETI@home doesn't finish Data Units
Date: 1999/06/23
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