How Many SETI Data Units Have You Completed?

[geo]

Originally Posted by Ashley Weed

I decided to download and run the BOINC program. I think I'm dense and did something wrong though, it recorded a lot of communication back and forth at the beginning, but then nothing in the past 12 hours. I'll probably end up just installing the SETI Classic.

Same thing happened to me.

BONIC suppose to be a improved version of SETI Classic, from my point of view it's unreliable. One day downloading data, other day showing no work available for 24 hours. I definitely like the classic better.

[Aignam]

I would have made a FIRST Group awhile back, but I got stuck in some other group. I put an HTML tag in the header that it didn't like, just as a test, and now the page I need to get to in order to quit the team doesn't load right because of that one tag. ::hmph::

[Joe3]

I'm not sure why, but I am finding this fun on some level. Checking back every so often and just seeing "Ooo, It finished another 3.79%. But then again, maybe I'm just wierd.

Your credit:
Name (and URL) Jbomb3
Results Received 24
Total CPU Time 63 hr 11 min
Average CPU Time per work unit 2 hr 37 min 58.9 sec
Average results received per day 3.46
Last result returned: Thu Aug 26 12:45:32 2004 UTC
Registered on: Thu Aug 19 15:05:25 2004 UTC
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SETI@home user for: 166 hr 32 min
Your group info:
You do not currently belong to a group.
You are not currently the founder of any teams.

Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 5107459 total users is: 1608977th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 21525
You have completed more work units than 68.076% of our users.

[Cory]

One unit completed
Fourteen Hours, 42 minutes, 35.6 seconds. :-D

[Ryan M.]

My average work time:
4 hr 04 min 21.5 sec (over 4 units)

See the rest of my stats at:
http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/...user_stats_new

[dachickindapit]

I'm not running SETI (I don't have a home computer right now), but I thought those that are would be interested in this article.

SETI Article

The potentially extraterrestrial signals were picked up through the SETI@home project, which uses programmes running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through the huge amount of data picked up by the telescope.

[Aignam]

Cool article. Thanks for the link!

[Cory]

Alright, I've been running SETI for almost 400 hours now, and in the last two days or so my computer has gotten really slow. About every few minutes or so my computer totally doesn't respond to any input for 10-20 seconds or so. I've checked for spyware, viruses, all that stuff, and found none.

I disabled SETI when I just restarted my computer, and so far everything is running great.

Anyone have any ideas about what might be goin on?

Cory

[Ryan M.]

My SETI processing rate slowed down recently too. It dropped from 4 hours ~10-20 min to 5.5 hours. I don't know what's going on.

P.S. I've had 549 hours.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Ryan Morehart

My SETI processing rate slowed down recently too. It dropped from 4 hours ~10-20 min to 5.5 hours. I don't know what's going on.

P.S. I've had 549 hours.

Mine is still getting faster actually, I went from like 14 hours to 5 or so.

The computer itsself runs *REALLY* slow with SETI running, and so far I've had it disabled for the better part of a day and everything's working fine.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Cory

Alright, I've been running SETI for almost 400 hours now, and in the last two days or so my computer has gotten really slow. About every few minutes or so my computer totally doesn't respond to any input for 10-20 seconds or so. I've checked for spyware, viruses, all that stuff, and found none.

I disabled SETI when I just restarted my computer, and so far everything is running great.

Anyone have any ideas about what might be goin on?

Cory

Umm.. yeah. SETI takes up about on average 90%-99% of your processor power when it runs.

SETI can be similated to spyware in this regards. (But it is something you know is running, unlike most spyware's that run without your knowledge).

As far as proving this, if you have WindowsXP hit ctr-alt-del and go to the Processes tab. Then sort by CPU Usage by clicking on that column header.
Currently as I type this and SETI is running in the background, SETI is using 98-99% of my CPU's power.

That is why it has an option to run constantly (not recommended unless you have a super fast kick butt computer), or to have it run in Screen Saver mode when you are idle anyways and not sharing the computer's power with anything else.