How to inprove times?

[FerrariF50]

I can finnish a WU in about 24 hours.. so far I have done 10 of them and I joined about 3-4 weeks ago.... I'm number 472 on the stats page.... is their anyway to speed this up??? and would my upcomeing system the Amd 1.2 Ghz provide better speed?

 

[Endeavor]

yes, the 1.2 will cut the WU time to about 8 or less hours
i can do 1 WU in about 12 hrs

 

[[Oc]acaridans]

I have a P2 400 that will do a unit in 12-14 hours...so your 450 should be doing about the same..

what version of the software are you running??

 

[chawken]

I can finnish a WU in about 24 hours.. so far I have done 10 of them and I joined about 3-4 weeks ago.... I'm number 472 on the stats page.... is their anyway to speed this up??? and would my upcomeing system the Amd 1.2 Ghz provide better speed?

A 1.2, configured properly can give you sub 6hr WU times. As for reducing WU times, here is a list of some of the things that can improve Seti performance:

> Run the command line client.
> If you are using Microsoft Office, turn off 'Find Fast'
> For overclockers, overclock by increasing fsb as opposed to the multiplier. More bandwidth means better performance.
> Setting Windows virtual memory to a min of at least 4x physical ram, using a disk utility such as Norton Speed Disk or Nuts and Bolts, defrag and optimize so as your virtual memory area is at the head of the disk
> Running Seti in RamDisk.
> Setting the clients priority to normal.
> Turn off all power management - in the bios as well as in the Operating System.
> Turn off any background tasks that don't need to run.
> In your Virus Scanning software, exclude the Seti directory.

There are probably more - but these are the things that I do to each of my machines.

 

[DeltaSierra]

Chawken: That's a pretty good list. Thanks!

 

[JigPu]

18 Hour average (for 100% completion WU)
Cele466 (no OC here )

ummmm... you could install seti on a ramdisk, but that gives cirtain problems... I think chawken listed most speed tips.

JigPu

 

[LandShark]

the only thing is.....why set virtual memory to "at least" 4x of physicl memory?? assumming u had 256MB in ur system, that's save to say to most power user & for the price of the memory rite now, "at least" 4x, that's a whole full 1Gig of virtual memory!! what in the world u'll need a whole Gig of virtual memory (especially consider the price of memory today!)??!! a data base server?

if u have enough physical memory, assumming 128MB+, preferable 256MB, then, the chance ur system will "hit" (need) to use virtual memory is very very low. typically, i would say 2-2.5x is more than enough for avage usage.

(i know there's some programs that will asscess virtual memory no matter how much phyical memory u had)

just my little 0.02 cents

 

[chaosdriven]

In addition to what chawken has mentioned, adjusting your memory settings in BIOS can speeds things up a bit also.

 

[Morpheus]

In addition to what chawken has mentioned, adjusting your memory settings in BIOS can speeds things up a bit also.

Agreed Chaos... I think shadowing the BIOS in RAM is a big performance boost...

Also, I run 350Mb virtual on my graphics box (256Mb physical).. on some SETI boxes I am running 32Mb physical & 32Mb Virtual... seems to work EXCELLENT...

Crunch on!!!