What ever, as my kids might say...

... but if you want to have some fun check out scarecrow's graphs. It is like a roller coaster ride! It appears CentralCommand has released the blockage.

It must be friday I see not one of our systems is doing any Seti work!! You can count on, when theirs a long week end, the Seti server well be down! Bet the farm and the house on that it's a sure thing! And I'm not a betting man but I would bet that!! The funny thing is I have a web server built in 1997, a dual Pentium Pro 200MHz system with 2 9Gig SCSI H/Ds' running FreeBSD 2.something that has never been off and never shut down and wroking for 3,000+ days with not one break down, but them $100,000 SUN systems with 40 Hard Drives and 10Gig of RAM you guys run, every other week end it's down?? whats up with that?? Oh well I told I would bitch if I came in and found our systems on and doing nothing so theirs my bitch.

Rev. Tim Olivera

"Reverend", you sure know how to use irreverent language. And checking your posts, you have been known to complain before. Often.

You might help your cause if you maintained a small cache of work units, and if you had a back-up project. Since your main interest is SETI, you could even consider SETI Beta as your backup; it does have work at the moment. (These points have been made by others. Often.)

The SETI servers are not down at the moment. (I have managed to snare a few work units during the past 10 hours.) As explained by Matt, they're straining under a heavy load brought about by a convergence of adverse circumstances. They therefore cannot keep up with the demand. As Martin points out, demand is the essential difference between your setup and that of SETI@home.

I have the same problem. I have a Windows XP Home, 3.4Gh HT, Memory 2.5 Gb and disk space of 1 Tb. I am not on a server, I am a single user. I run only S@H. As suggested, I set the CPU to 100%. I have not used the threading utility. For me, I am not sure it really is necessary.

I do not need to repeat all the details said in this thread. I, too get message of "Restarting Task...". I have yet to complete one unit of work for S@H in quite some time. I would like to continue, but many days, weeks or whatever of procesing time have been wasted.

I need help. I request a reply from SETI. I may need to give up processing seti.

Thanks.

Unfortunately, response times are affected.

I am really surprised to hear this. My own tests have shown that response time is affected in the microseconds range and thus not enough to really worry about. I work as an IT Admin at an Intermediate Care facility for the Mentally Ill and I have BOINC on their machines (with proper permission from the General Manager) without any lag.

None of my desktops are having trouble running at 100%. I have a couple of P4s and Athlons that I am throttleing just to increase the responsivness when using office apps and internet etc. Otherwise the employees might start complaining. Being the boss, I really don't have time to listen to it..:)

The science app runs at the lowest priority, giving all standard apps CPU time over itself. There should be no slowdown in the response time of the computer. You should try it an a few machines to see for yourself.