Any way to speed it up??? It's been as slow as a slug, while I got the old OS9 and OSX non-BOINC versions pushing them out left and right. This image'll say every thing. (It can't even copy text, hince the image.)



Right now I'm 99.52% done with this worthless one (17 days overdue). Any way to make the next one faster so it actually gets done early enough to get credit for it?

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It sounds like you're running classic (old) seti at the same time as BOINC. This is not a good idea as it will use all the available processor time on a single processor system. I can get away with it on a DP G5 as it only ties up one processor, but is still slows down BOINC to about one-third normal speed. Running an OS9 program on OSX will also use all available processor time slowing BOINC down to a crawl.

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So I try only using BOING and golly, now it only takes about a day to do one!!

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Nintendo:
You might consider going over to the Team MacNN download site and getting an optimized BOINC client and optimized SETI client to install. The optimized clients ought to cut your average 30k CPU seconds down to around 22K CPU seconds or so...

Tell us what client you are running for BOINC (MenuBar or BOINC Manager), and more about your computer, and we can recommend which optimized client to install and how to install it.

C

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Tell us what client you are running for BOINC (MenuBar or BOINC Manager), and more about your computer, and we can recommend which optimized client to install and how to install it.

BOINC Manager

Version 10.4.2
1 GHz PowerPC G4 iMac
768 MB DDR SDRAM

It's working great now, but geting done even faster is always nice!!!

I'm guessing

G4 408 K
G4 superbench 408 K

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First, go to your SETI account and set your "connect to every..." to 0.1 days, if it's larger than that, so you can reduce the WU in queue to only one that will get wasted - or set "no new work" if you are able to. After the queue has gone down, I'd suggest downloading the G4 superbench 408 K and all the way at the bottom of the page, the CLI 4.30 SETI Workers Manual AltiVec Optimization G4 7450 348 K.

To install the Superbench: Quit BOINC Manager. Open your Applications folder and Control-click once on the BOINC Manager application. In the pop up window, select "show contents". Find the file with named "boinc" and remove it. Rename the superbench file to "boinc", and place it into the folder where the older version was until you removed it. Close the window.

Now go to the SETI folder - probably in HD/Application Support/Boinc Data/Projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu folder. Remove the old SETI client and replace it with the Altivec optimized one. Also, [very important] put the app_info.xml file in the same folder as the SETI Altivec optimized file; this xml file tells boinc to use your new client instead of the old one.

Close everything, and start up BOINC Manager - it should run just fine.

Exceptions: If you are only running SETI, or SETI and CPDN, everything seems to go ok. If you try running Einstein also, then SETI and Einstein don't seem to get along well. Either or both will refuse to give up the cpu to the other when they should, etc. The developers are aware of this, and are working on the problem.

Good luck, and if you like the speed up, think about joining Team MacNN!
C

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