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Message 189787 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 13:14:28 UTC

I have a new, fast computer that rips through Seti Classic workunits (the fastest on my team!) but I'm also running boinc, and most of the time I lose the workunits because of the time constraint - I seem to be running it superslow. I've been through my preferences many times and can't figure out what I need to change.
Any help/thoughts would be appreciated.
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Message 189797 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 14:11:13 UTC

Running Classic and Boinc at the same time is a bad idea as Classic will take more than its share of the CPU. FYI Boinc does not do the processing the processing is accomplished by the Application....which is 4.18 at this time....
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Message 189908 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 21:26:26 UTC

Jim's right. SETI Classic runs at a higher priority making SETI-BOINC appear to run very slowly. If you disable Classic and run just SETI-BOINC, you'll notice a tremendous speed-up in CPU power.
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Message 189983 - Posted: 18 Nov 2005, 1:33:52 UTC

You're absolutely right! I uninstalled Seti Classic and now Boinc is running beautifully.
Thanks so much!
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