hello,

it seems that the enhanced version (5.15) of seti@home need a long time to load the work in the main memory after every system start!
Is there a possibillity to use a kind of cache that speed up the programm start?

cu spacetracer

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More memory or install BOINC as a service. Then the crunching will start during Windows boot up, even before you log in.

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This is not my problem, I have observe the memory usage of the seti threads
and it seems that they decode the workunit load it into memory and start then with work!
I think it would faster when the clients decode the wu and save this result into a cache file and load after boot up the cache to continue the work!

cu spacetracer

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The cache file would still have to be read from a hard disk which would slow down the process back to the original speed (the slowest link is the hard drive). Caching information only speeds the process when the cache is stored in memory. Of course, when you start your computer, nothing is in memory and everyting must be loaded from the hard disk, which defeats the purpose of a file-based cache.

SETI does, however, write all progress to your hard disk before a shut down, then upon restart it loads this progress file. But I'd hardly call it a cache - more like a temp file.

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