First things first:  What else are you running while running SETI?  If I'm running a game like Railroad Tycoon 3 then I only get one or two data sets a day vs a normal day of four to five on my 1.8GHz P4.

Second you should upgrade your RAM to 512MB or more.  256MB is boarder line if you are running apps that require over 50MBs to run and you have a few TSRs loaded.  Turn off all animated screen savers.

And lastly make sure that you are actually running the COMMAND LINE VERSION of SETI.  "setiathome-3.08.i386-winnt-cmdline.exe".  I run mine using SETI DRIVER and SETI QUEUE.  Info on where to DL these are on the SETI@home web site.



bob brozewicz 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

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.

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.

tia
bob brozewicz
brozewicz.rf@verizon.net