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Message 5807 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 21:24:34 UTC

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Is there another way you can lower your computation time, except upgrading your hardware.

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- Amd 2200+ Clock at 1.8 Ghz
- 512 ddr ram pc2700 333mhz

My Average time in seti@home classic is about 13-14 hours, dont know if i'ts good for my spec, but I would realy like better performance.
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Message 5832 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 22:34:22 UTC

Hi there, that does seem quite high for your chip. Make sure you defrag your drive and try not to have anything else running.
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Message 5846 - Posted: 9 Jul 2004, 23:13:50 UTC
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>......try not to have anything else running.
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Having other processes running has NO influence on your final CPU time to complete the process of a WU. It has ONLY an influence on the wall clock time to have it completed.
It is important to understand that the given time for processing is CPU time. If you have a lot of processes running or not has no influence at all on this given time.
The only way to lower this time is to improve the hardware of your PC.

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Message 5866 - Posted: 10 Jul 2004, 0:00:03 UTC - in response to Message 5846.  

> Having other processes running has NO influence on your final CPU time
> to complete the process of a WU. It has ONLY an influence on the wall
> clock time to have it completed.
> It is important to understand that the given time for processing is CPU
> time. If you have a lot of processes running or not has no influence at all on
> this given time.
> The only way to lower this time is to improve the hardware of your PC.

I think he's asking how he can process a WU faster? ie: quicker wall clock time per WU.

So yes, shutting down non-essential processes should improve his process time. (wall clock)

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Message 5869 - Posted: 10 Jul 2004, 0:07:37 UTC - in response to Message 5866.  
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> I think he's asking how he can process a WU faster? ie: quicker wall clock
> time per WU.
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> So yes, shutting down non-essential processes should improve his process time.
> (wall clock)

Agree with this.

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Message 5871 - Posted: 10 Jul 2004, 0:13:58 UTC - in response to Message 5832.  

> Hi there, that does seem quite high for your chip. Make sure you defrag
> your drive and try not to have anything else running.
> ttyl
> Jeff
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Try running with the screen saver turned off, cause I do believe it chews up a lot of cpu time.....
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Message 6158 - Posted: 10 Jul 2004, 16:03:04 UTC - in response to Message 5871.  

> Try running with the screen saver turned off, cause I do believe it chews up a lot of cpu time.....

depends how fast your CPU is to how much % it uses, but yea stoping it or set how much cpu it uses in pref will make it compleat faster, also OC will make it run faster, but if you dont want a dead pc i DONT recommend it :) and dont blame me :@
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