Subject: Re: Seti Driver reliability on Win2K Hyper-threading P4-3.06GHz
From: "Michael D. Ober" <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam>
Date: 04/02/2005, 01:18
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

RBS,

Answers interspersed.

Mike.

"-RBS-" <jf_reneX@Xhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:DVvMd.2$Vy6.0@edtnps91...
I'm having a little trouble following the "merging" instructions below ...
.maybe I am just a little thick  ;-)

((First of all though ... I did just increase the cache size of both
SETIdriver instances to 4.  ))

What is the problem of having 2 instances of SETIdriver icon appeaering in
systray? Is this causing the stopping-of-seti-processing-activity that I
mentioned in my first post in this  thread?

Yes, especially if you have checked Set Affinity.


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"open the seti driver folders" : this is in my C:\SETIdriver
irectory?  --- 
There are folders numbered 1 thru 4  there.

"stop one instance of SETI Driver (use the exit button) and renumber the
subfolders in the stopped instance so none of its folders conflict with
the
numbering in the other seti driver folder."  --- How do I know which
subfolders belong to which stopped instance ?? "renumber" then as what ?
5, 6, 7 ,8 ... etc. ?


Correct.  Lets make this simple.  Stop both instances.  Set the numbered WUs
in one instance to be 1, 2, 3, 4 (based on your cache size of 4).  Set the
numbered WUs in the other instance to be 11, 12, 13, 14.  Now move the WUs
11, 12, 13, 14 to the SETI Driver folder with WUs 1, 2, 3, 4.  You should
have a SETI Driver folder with WUs 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14.  Delete the
other SETI Driver folder.  Start the remaining SETI Driver.  SETI Driver
will set your cache size to 8 (If you look at the numbered WU folders,
you'll see that they have been renumbered to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) and
then set your cache size to 5.  As WUs complete and results returned, SETI
Driver will renumber to bring the total number of WUs down to 5.

I think i have more questions, but I will stop here until i have the
preceeding cleared up !

Thanks !!

-RBS-