All P4 Cs are Hyperthreading enabled - 3 hours/WU looks about right for an
average 0.417AR WU using the 'online SETI timer' at Roelef Engelbrecht's
'SetiSpy' web page - it should average a bit faster than that overall whilst
running a single CLI though. (BTW: v3.03 CLI is at least 10% faster than
v3.08)

As Ted wrote: If you run two CLI's at the same time under WinXP Pro with
hyperthreading enabled then the time per WU will get longer but well under
double thus your daily throughput should increase quite a lot. (AFAIK, with
Hyperthreading enabled you should see two 'CPU Usage' graphs in Task
Manager's Performance tab.)

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...


"Ted Nelson" <tnelsons@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote

If this is a hyperthreading p4 and you are using xp pro or w2k pro,
enable hyperthreading in the BIOS, set up the OS for dual processing and
run 2 instances.  CPU time for each WU will be higher than than just
running one instance with uniprocessor setup but you will be getting
more throughput, maybe as much as 20% more (ie: more WU in a particular
24 period will be processed).  Even though each unit takes more CPU
time, you will be running 2 simultaneously.

Phil wrote:

Hi,
   Ive just built myself a new PC, its a P4 2.4C with 2gb DDR400 ram,

what

sort of times should I be getting? Would it be more efficent to run 2
instances of seti? With just running 1 instance of seti im seeing times

of

about 3hrs on the dot.

Phil.