I have a dual 1.25 G4 running 10.3.5. I started running SETI BOINC a couple of days ago. Only one CPU is in use by BOINC, according to Activity Monitor, although I set the preferences for 2 CPU's. That's OK for now; I let the other CPU run classic SETI, using SETICNTL.

My questions are: How am I going to have both CPU's running BOINC, when the times comes? Can I just copy boinc_4.09_powerpc-apple-darwin to another folder and start it in another Terminal Window?

When I someday reboot, will SETI BOINC start running again by itself, and if not do I start it with a ./boinc_4.09_powerpc-apple-darwin?

I'm asking these things in advance since there seem to be not enough people who have the answers around here.

I hope some of those brilliant guys from the Classic help boards migrate here soon.

Thanks.

Polishing my avatar.

Same as above.

I seem to remember reading somewhere to edit your preferences to set your Max Processors to 4 (> than the number you have). I am not sure if this really is the fix, but I did this at the beginning, and have always been using both my procs.

Now if they can just fix the problems with updating credit...

Thanks Bonze. I didn't think of trying that.

Acutally, a little while ago, my Mac was misbehaving and I HAD to reboot. After the boot, SETI wasn't running. I figured I try the drag and drop into terminal trick. It started crunching. And it seems to be crunching two different sets of data. And it is now using both processors! Maybe it needed a re-boot for preferences to take effect.

Now if they can just fix the problems with updating credit...

Hi,

download SETI Control from versiontracker.com. This automatically uses all available processors.

I have it. It runs my classic SETI. How would I make it run, and transmit my data to BOINC? Are you sure it would do that? It was written before BOINC, wasn't it?

> I have it. It runs my classic SETI. How would I make it run, and transmit my
> data to BOINC? Are you sure it would do that? It was written before BOINC,
> wasn't it?
>
>

Are you sure you have the right program? SETI Control 2.4

Simply enter the path to your BOINC-client into the Preferences and start.

It says SETICNTL 2.34 (v0.1)

> It says SETICNTL 2.34 (v0.1)
>

North,

this is different. Click on the link I posted above.

> > It says SETICNTL 2.34 (v0.1)
> >
>
> North,
>
> this is different. Click on the link I posted above.
>
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> <img> src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/seti2/stats.php?userID=1440&trans=off">
>

Thanks Martin!

SETI Control 2.4 is running great on my G4 dual so far. A bit tricky to start. I got confused about which applications folder to use. I also had a little trouble with spaces and slashes in my cd command, but I figured it out eventually. If I remember correctly I don't think I needed that first / after cd.

I'm still waiting for my old G3 to get itself together. Is there a problem with using 10.1.5?? Seti Control seems to run, but it keeps waiting another ten minutes because the seti server claims it just was given data 70 seconds, or 2 minutes or whatever ago. It was doing the same thing all day today running without Seti Control. Also, the server thinks I have three computers for some reason. It seems to be treating my router as a computer or something like that. Maybe things will straighten themselves out. I need sleep. I've wrestled with this enough for today.

Tomorrow I have a class AND work, so Friday I'll wrestle with Crontab. I think I really will need that.

And thanks again Martin!

I was running two instances of seti classic from the command line on a dual 450, and when i installed Boinc it seemed to automatically recognize two processors. It made two folders in the Boinc folder, slot o and Slot 1..each folder had a work unit in it. Activity monitor shows both processors maxed.

steve