How can I keep Seti Driver/Spy from going idle?

[Mithian]

I've noticed that sometimes when I play video games, my seti will go idle and stop crunching. This just recently started happening, it never used to do this.. I know having seti running in the background doesn't affect my gaming, and would really feel much better if I could convince my pc to crunch, even though I'm taking a break and playing some games..

Any idea on how to fix this? I've looked at the idle settings to both seti driver and seti spy, but no matter what I change there I don't see any type of change in the behavior.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :)

[Jon]

Change the priority to normal and see if that helps.

[LandShark]

if both is idling, the SETIDriver "might" crashed. it happened on one of my machine before.

if it's idling, can u exit, then restart SETISpy? if not, it might crashed..

[Sir-Epix]

Originally posted by Mithian
I've noticed that sometimes when I play video games, my seti will go idle and stop crunching. This just recently started happening, it never used to do this.. I know having seti running in the background doesn't affect my gaming, and would really feel much better if I could convince my pc to crunch, even though I'm taking a break and playing some games..

Any idea on how to fix this? I've looked at the idle settings to both seti driver and seti spy, but no matter what I change there I don't see any type of change in the behavior.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :)

Is this on your 150MHz Pentium Pro, or your 600MHz Katmai? If you are playing games like UT, and such not Seti Spy will go to idle because the game is taking up basically all the cpu cycles. Seti is still crunching, but not doing very much work, thus Seti Spy states that it is idle. I know on my Celeron that when I hit a big triplet, it sometimes goes to idle because not much work progress has been done. I think you have nothing to worry about. Once you exist the game and leave it be for awhile does it go back, or is a seti spy restart in order?

**The question is...how do I know your crunchers?