I have a 16-20 hour average now with the CLI Seti.
Everywhere I keep seeing thos 5-10 hour averages...what's up with that?
I have a G4 400 with 320 MB ram and OSX 10.0.1
Is there any way I can speed things up?

I came from 34 hour average with the screensaver so I have improved but still....

[msuper69]

I'm seeing similar results on a PowerBook G4 500mhz w/256mb ram. Throughput is averaging 30+ hours. Those aliens are going to be hard to find at this rate!

[theiliad]

Me too. It takes 31hrs on my 450 G4 cube with 192 Mb memory.....
screensaver on

[chris v]

My results with the 3.03 screensaver vary from 16 to 22 hrs. on a G4 450. I can't figure why the variation, but according to seti, my avg. time is 20 point something. If I'm going to let it chug away at night, I'll close everything else on the machine. Maybe having a ton of apps open, even if they're idle, saps processor cycles. Idle speculation. My 604e 150 averages about 150 hrs per.

CV

[davidflas]

Its been well documented that 3.03 is much slower than older versions of the SETI software. Some people have so many units processed by the old software under their belt that they will continue to have low workunit processing times for a while. My G4/466 w/384MB ram averages about 16-20 hours per unit with SETI being the only open app.

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[Scotttheking]

My PM 8500-150MHz (upgraded to 1MB L2 cache) takes about 48 hrs per unit.


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PM 8500 - 150, 48, 1 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 4.5 GB

[gumby5647]

iMac DV + 450Mhz,128MB,
SETI only in use when im in bed

17 hours

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[vega24]

Mr_Frost try creating and using a RAM Disk for Seti@home. A 1MB RAM Disk should be big enough, which shouldn't be a big problem since you have 320 MB. The RAM Disk isn't for the entire Seti@home application, it's for the .sah files that must be read and written thousands of times during a work unit. It speeds things up by not using the hard drive to read and write these files, a extra bonus is that it saves a lot of wear and tear on your hard drive. This is very important for laptop user's of Seti@home because by not constantly spinning up the hard drive, your battery last longer. Anyways, it's easy to set up a RAM Disk for Seti@home, just go to Seti Station.

ok...that sounds really good. :-)
Does this mean that the seti app will not stop running when you put your HD to sleep?
that would be awesome

[Scotttheking]

But when your comp locks up you lose the whole unit that was being crunched.

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 176, 4.3 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 1 GB
And the lowest of all:
Athlon Thunderbird 954MHz, 128, 8GB

[vega24]

originally posted by Mr_Frost:

Does this mean that the seti app will not stop running when you put your HD to sleep?

I have a iBook and when I put the whole system to sleep while Seti is running, the app stops, but if I choose "spin down hard disk" from the energy saver control panel or if the hard drive just spins down on it's own, the app just keeps crunching away like nothing happened. So, to answer your question. Yes, Seti will keep running if you put your hard drive to sleep but will stop running if you put the whole system to sleep.

originally posted by scotttheking:

But when your comp locks up you lose the whole unit that was being crunched.

Maybe not if you regularly make a backup copy of the Seti@home Data folder that's in the RAM Disk. I'm not sure on this though, I'll have to try it out.

[Scotttheking]

You can make backups, and if the comp crashes you can use the most recent backup, but it elimiates the point of the ram disk.
Either you manually do it every X amount of time, which means you are at your machine to do it, and you have to spin up your hard drive to do it (uses a lot of power to spin it up)
or
you have a program that does it, using processing power, that has to spin up your hard drive to do it (uses a lot of power to spin it up)

So there is no point to it.

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 176, 4.3 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 1 GB
And the lowest of all:
Athlon Thunderbird 954MHz, 128, 8GB

[vega24]

My iBook locked up this morning using IE 5. I had to turn off the computer and reboot using the power button. I then launched the Seti app and it picked up where it lefted off. I've never made a back up of the RAM Disk, whether OS 9.1 has or not I don't know. I opened the RAM Disk folder and all the all the .sah files were still there.

There is a RAM Disk program called ramBunctious that will automatically backup the RAM Disk to the hard drive at whatever time intervals you specify.

btw/ Mr_Frost,
Seti will not work while the whole system is in sleep mode, so it's important to set the sleep timer for the system to NEVER in the energy saver control panel. The system will to sleep with Seti running on a RAM Disk because now the system doesn't see itself as active.