How Many SETI Data Units Have You Completed?

[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.