10 hours, 9 minutes and 4 seconds! Wow! (I have a 1.7 Ghz Celeron machine with 1/4 GB ram, and WUs used to take at least 50 hrs on it! My older computer took over 150 hours to to a single WU!)

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> 10 hours, 9 minutes and 4 seconds! Wow! (I have a 1.7 Ghz Celeron machine with
> 1/4 GB ram, and WUs used to take at least 50 hrs on it! My older computer took
> over 150 hours to to a single WU!)

*ugh*

Whatever config that System is running, that's way way too slow for the CPU's potential.

Check that the Screensaver isn't always active. 10 hours sound like a normal time, 50hrs is what a Pentium II-class System would expect to see, given the current BOINC SETI speeds.

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50 hours is about what my P 200 takes. Make certain that you do not have some process stealing CPU cycles.

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50 hours? My 449 Mhz Pentium 2 would run a WU in about 10 hours.

> 50 hours? My 449 Mhz Pentium 2 would run a WU in about 10 hours.
>


my 333mhz pc which was 8 years old would take 24 hours.50 hours seems wayyyy to slow.

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Unfortunately, something must be wrong. I have a 200mhz Pentium that is completing WU's at around 52 hours.

EDIT: I just noticed John McLeod VII has the same PC. I thought I was the last to run BOINC on one of these old lumps. Ha!

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I got a P-II 300 mhz running Windoze 2000 and a WU takes around 30 hours.

> 50 hours? My 449 Mhz Pentium 2 would run a WU in about 10 hours.
>
What is your PC secret? I have a Pentium II at 392 Mhz and takes 25H aprox. to run a WU!

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Hi

Two years ago i had a Cyrix 166 running on Seti classic.
One WU was running about two weeks or so.

greetz Mike

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> What is your PC secret? I have a Pentium II at 392 Mhz and takes 25H aprox. to run a WU!
>

I don't know. It is a Compaq Presario 5660. I've never over clocked any part of my computer. I have upgraded the RAM to 384 MB and the hard drive to 40 GB at 7,200 RPM. Would that make a big difference in the amount of time it takes to complete a WU? It still has the original CPU and motherboard.

> I don't know. It is a Compaq Presario 5660. I've never over clocked any part
> of my computer. I have upgraded the RAM to 384 MB and the hard drive to 40 GB
> at 7,200 RPM. Would that make a big difference in the amount of time it takes
> to complete a WU? It still has the original CPU and motherboard.
>
Well I don't uderstand much of computers! Mine is a PII 350 and with such a litle diference (100Mhz) even if your fsb being 133Mhz, that would not explain such a diference! Just left to say LUCK of you!

Happy crunching!

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Seems different batches of wu's are crunched at diff speeds.I had one batch that took 3 hours per wu.The batch I am now crunching are taking about 2 hours and 45 mins per wu.Seti 4.03 I was crunching one wu in about one hour and 30 mins.

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Angle Range...Angle Range...Angle Range....remember the days from classic where you'd jump for joy at getting lots of high angle range wu's adn then cry when you got multiple VLARs!

Low ARs take the longest
Medium ARs are the median
Large ARs are the shortest time to crunch.

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> > 10 hours, 9 minutes and 4 seconds! Wow! (I have a 1.7 Ghz Celeron machine
> with
> > 1/4 GB ram, and WUs used to take at least 50 hrs on it! My older computer
> took
> > over 150 hours to to a single WU!)
>
> *ugh*
>
> Whatever config that System is running, that's way way too slow for the CPU's
> potential.
>
> Check that the Screensaver isn't always active. 10 hours sound like a normal
> time, 50hrs is what a Pentium II-class System would expect to see, given the
> current BOINC SETI speeds.
>
It shares CPU cycles with other distributed programs, such as Folding@home. Therefore, it isn't at its fastest because it runs many other distributed apps.

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Wow guys, I have a system, Windows XP, P4 Athlon 1.6 ghz, 256mb ram did my first WU in 4 hrs. Next one looks like it'll take 2.5-3hrs

Question: Do other's machines seem to go real fast for the first 25% then level off? Is that some sort of prelim check?

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> > > 10 hours, 9 minutes and 4 seconds! Wow! (I have a 1.7 Ghz Celeron
> machine
> > with
> > > 1/4 GB ram, and WUs used to take at least 50 hrs on it! My older
> computer
> > took
> > > over 150 hours to to a single WU!)
> >
> > *ugh*
> >
> > Whatever config that System is running, that's way way too slow for the
> CPU's
> > potential.
> >
> > Check that the Screensaver isn't always active. 10 hours sound like a
> normal
> > time, 50hrs is what a Pentium II-class System would expect to see, given
> the
> > current BOINC SETI speeds.
> >
> It shares CPU cycles with other distributed programs, such as Folding@home.
> Therefore, it isn't at its fastest because it runs many other distributed
> apps.
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Celeron 600
Mem 192MB PC100
MB GigaBite
Os Win98SE

Running Prog's:
Firewall
Antivir
IE6 Browser
Boinclogx ver:1.12
Boinc ver:4.13
Project S@H ver:4.08

Low Ar: ~20H
Medium AR: ~13H
HIGH AR: ~10H

Greetz

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i have a 1.3 gig celeron running the seti app at 95% in 24 hours a wu
predictor 10 hours
pirates 35 minutes
lhc 2 hours per 100k cycles
cpdn estamated 3500 hours
im all over the board

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I think you'll find it's not just the speed of the processor, the amount of RAM plays a major part in how long it takes to complete work units.
I'm running Windows XP+SP2 on a 2.4GHz Celeron but I only have 128MB of RAM - and 16MB of that is taken by graphics! I complete work units in 10 hours....

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> I think you'll find it's not just the speed of the processor, the amount of
> RAM plays a major part in how long it takes to complete work units.
> I'm running Windows XP+SP2 on a 2.4GHz Celeron but I only have 128MB of RAM -
> and 16MB of that is taken by graphics! I complete work units in 10 hours....
>
>

wow.... get youself some more RAM if you have to beg/borrow or steal it!

even an extra 128MB will give you a massive improvement in WinXP performance. Another 256 and you will be laughing!

This PC, 1.4Gz Pentium M with 256MB RAM and XPSP2 does a unit in about 2.5 hours

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> I think you'll find it's not just the speed of the processor, the amount of
> RAM plays a major part in how long it takes to complete work units.
> I'm running Windows XP+SP2 on a 2.4GHz Celeron but I only have 128MB of RAM -
> and 16MB of that is taken by graphics! I complete work units in 10 hours....
>
>

You might wanna think about getting a video card to put in that computer. Integrated video really, REALLY slows down S@H.

My wife's computer (AMD AthlonXP 2400+, winxp home + sp2, 384mb ram (-32 for video), with integrated video) takes about 25% longer to do a work unit than my computer (AMD AthlonXP 1800+, win2k, 256mb ram, cheap video card) does - 5 hours vs. 4 hours.