I want to go faster in (SETI) - 2

[Brian R.]

Rags - Thanks for the hints. I just started using W2K and am hesitant about stopping processes. I have had two instances of totally wiping out the OS without really knowing why or what I did to cause it. What do you keep running in the background in W2K while running SETI?

Maggi - I tried running the GUI version in safe mode. It gave me an error message stating it needed at least 256 colors. I couldn't figure how to only load the video drivers. Any idea?

[MegaManX4]

I admit that it sounded offensive, that was what it should sound , because I wanted Rags to answer. He never did it before using "normal" asking, i think.

Mega

[cjolley]

Any body have any idea how linux does.
I use the win commandline seti and just crunch when the computer is not doing anything else, like over night or while I'm at work.
I have a blank hd I used to have linux on. I could dual boot it and use it just to run seti if I could figure out how. ( Or if someone could tell me. )
chuck

[Rags]

Mega,

No one has really asked me "normal" before. I have just gotten called a cheat, a liar, etc.

Rags



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[Brian R.]

Rags - Thanks for the help anyway. I appreciate any suggestions.

[Jorden]

I dumped some 167 fonts, and did a reboot when I had d/led my latest WU. 43% in 2 hours 53 minutes is still about the same time I always ran.

The tip was good though, Matt, as Windows already starts up quicker

No way for me to up the FSB though

Jord, at T minus 3 hours exactly

[Swing]

I want to give a big thank you to everyone who responded. I didn't think so many people would help out.

paulcs,

You have the same basic machine that I do (I have UDMA 33 hard drives that use too much CPU time though) and you are really crunching the WUs.

Could you or someone else here tell me the URL to download the command line version 2.0 and how best to set it up [or at least point me to online help or FAQs].

Thanks in advance.

Maggi,

Thanks for the information. I didn't know that I was in the top 20 for Fastest seti@murcers. You know how people new to a site are, we don't know where to go for information and ask questions that are simple for others.

[Brian R.]

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html for version 2.4. Other than the requirement for the -Verbose switch to see progress, I don't think there are many significant differences between the 2.0 and 2.4 command-line versions.

I find it interesting that, according to W2K task manager, seti command-line version 2.0 requires 13MB of memory while running. Whassup with that?

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 24 June 2000).]

[Swing]

Brian R.,

Thanks. I had found that page, but I must have missed Pentium and Windows 98 combination. I found just about every other OS.

Which command line version should I download for Windows 98 SE and a PIII?

[Brian R.]

i386-winnt-cmdline.exe

[paulcs]

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/setiathome-2.4.i386-winnt-cmdline.exe

And don't worry about that NT stuff. It works fine in Windows 98.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Maggi]

Hi Swing,

sorry if you took it wrong, I was only kidding and didn't mean in any way to brand you as a newbie or something !



Now to the helping part:

I set up a directory structure for caching WUs, enabling me to crunch/send/recieve WUs in bundles. Looks like this:


As you can see, I have four batches there.

"Kopie von Send_Seti.bat" is only a dummy that I use to actually send/recieve WUs. I copy'n'paste from "Send_Seti.bat" which contains the following

cd .\Kopie(01)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(02)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(03)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(04)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(05)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(06)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(07)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(08)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(09)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(10)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(11)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(12)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(13)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(14)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(15)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(16)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(17)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(18)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(19)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(20)
Seti.exe -stop_after_xfer
cd ..

"Render_Cont.bat" is linked to autostart and basically a rollup of "Render_Seti.bat" to reflect the actual WU to be crunched on.
(Render_Seti.bat starts in directory Kopie(01) and
I'm crunching on WU Kopie(07) right now)

cd .\Kopie(07)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(08)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(09)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(10)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(11)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(12)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(13)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(14)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(15)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(16)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(17)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(18)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(19)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(20)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(01)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(02)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(03)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(04)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(05)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

cd .\Kopie(06)
Seti.exe -stop_after_process
cd ..

To make sure the output window is taking no unneccessary rescource, goto its properties and let it run 'minimized' ...

Cheers,
Maggi

[This message has been edited by Maggi@Home (edited 25 June 2000).]

[Swing]

Thanks everyone. And a special thanks to Maggi for the extra work, you are good people here.

[Assimilator1]

wow ,those batch files look like alot of work!.
You should try using SETIQ ,it's linked from the main SETI page

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I guess I won't recruit for my team here TA

[Maggi]

Anytime, Swing ...

Assim,

I wouldn't trust anything to automate my WU caching !
I read so many people complaining they lost WUs when SETI had a server problem, I prefer to do it the old fashioned way ...
About the working effort ... was only a matter of mind how to set up such a thing and then copy'n'paste.
Best part is that I control my WUs.