Just an update here - my "fix" seems to help a lot. Second WU ran in 86 hrs, current (third) WU is at 56% and Seti Monitor estimates a time off 65 hrs to complete!
Woohoo!

ravens wrote:

AMD K6 - it's 300MHz I think. And Win98.
I've recently  changed to the "blank screen" for screensaver and to have SETI run all the time in the background - I'll see if that is more efficient.

Charles Paschal wrote:

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:23:27 -0400, ravens <ravens@sympatico.spamlessca> wrote:

Name (and URL)     ravens
Results Received     1
Total CPU Time     299 hr 12 min
Average CPU Time per work unit     299 hr 12 min 24.6 sec
Average results received per day     0.04
Last result returned:    Tue Sep 2 11:00:20 2003 UTC
Registered on:    Sun Aug 10 00:40:46 2003 UTC
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SETI@home user for:    563 hr 40 min
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    Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 4651697 total users is:     2693371st place.
The number of users who have this rank:     364589
You have completed more work units than     34.261% of our users.

OK - so I can't afford the big hardware, but it's still a small sense of accomplishment ;-)

What hardware are you using? Just curious.

Charles Paschal