In article <t39Nc.169$uX4.157@trndny06>,
bob brozewicz  <brozewicz.rf@verizon.net> wrote:

hi all,

im wondering why, on my machine (2.8 ghz celeron processor, 256 meg 266 
ddr memory, 400 mhz system bus, windows xp home addition) does seti take 
so long to finish a unit of work. the seti client that im using is 
version 3.08

Celerons suck at heavy computational work.

it takes an average 8/9 hours.

looking at some of the bench mark stuff i found in another posting. it 
says it should take about three hours.

Are you sure you were looking at Celeron numbers and not P4? The Celerons
are lobotomized Pentiums.

my machine is alway on and the only thing that runs most of the time is 
seti and NAV w/auto protect.

is there a way to speed seti up.

I'd start by disabling NAV. As others have said, turning off graphics
will help a lot.


Gary

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