"Ed Holden" <ed.holden2001@nospamyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1091032750.77008.0@iris.uk.clara.net...

Henry Goodman wrote:

I have been running Seti 3.08 on a Windows 98 machine for years.

Last

week I installed broadband and yesterday I installed McAfee

Firewall

Plus 5.0.5.7 (broadband suppliers suggested I need a firewall and

I am

already using McAfee VirusScan and Spamkiller)
The effect was to slow Seti to a crawl.
Does anybody know if this can be cured by switching to BOINC?

Please tell me you're not using a USB modem?!  Such things use a lot

of

system resources, as do software firewalls.  You'd be much better

off

buying a router. Such things have built-in ADSL modems and a

hardware

firewall. Such a device would use drain zero CPU power, and would

offer

hugely better protection.

Well, yes, I am using a USB modem (Speedtouch) as provided by my ISP.
Incidentally I rebooted a couple of hours ago and let Seti run without
connecting to the internet and it seems to be going faster; we'll see
what happens now I have connected. I rebooted because Windows was
refusing to run tasks because of insufficient memory. I have 256Mb and
have not had that problem since I enhanced it from 64Mb. Could be a
memory problem with McAfee rather than CPU cycles?

-- 
Henry Goodman
henry dot goodman at virgin dot net