Enkidu
01-11-04, 11:48 AM
I've been messing with this problem for a few weeks now and am at a loss, hoping one of you seti masters have seen it before and can help :-)
Here is the deal - I have several P4 HT machines, I have them each running 2 seti clients, one at c:\seti and the other at c:\seti\ht I also have them configured as services using the nt toolkit (instsrv and srvany, which in turn uses registry entries to configure them).
The problem: At least 3 times a week I'll notice a slow down with 'one' of the two WUs running on these machines. When I go investigate I can see (using taskmgr) that while one of the virtual processors is pegged at 100%, the other is not - leaving the machine running at around 85% cpu load. If I play with stopping and restarting the seti services I can get get them both to max out. These machines are used during the days, but seti does run 24/7.
Has anyone seen this before? I'm at a loss for how to fix this problem. I really don't like instsrv and srv any - I'd rather use the "Seti@Home Service" that lets you use a web browser to check their stats - but it doesnt play well with HT (you can't install 2 instances of the service). Any ideas? Is there a better service utility I should be using?
Thanks!
Enk
Here is the deal - I have several P4 HT machines, I have them each running 2 seti clients, one at c:\seti and the other at c:\seti\ht I also have them configured as services using the nt toolkit (instsrv and srvany, which in turn uses registry entries to configure them).
The problem: At least 3 times a week I'll notice a slow down with 'one' of the two WUs running on these machines. When I go investigate I can see (using taskmgr) that while one of the virtual processors is pegged at 100%, the other is not - leaving the machine running at around 85% cpu load. If I play with stopping and restarting the seti services I can get get them both to max out. These machines are used during the days, but seti does run 24/7.
Has anyone seen this before? I'm at a loss for how to fix this problem. I really don't like instsrv and srv any - I'd rather use the "Seti@Home Service" that lets you use a web browser to check their stats - but it doesnt play well with HT (you can't install 2 instances of the service). Any ideas? Is there a better service utility I should be using?
Thanks!
Enk