<chakolateDeathToSpammers@gmail.com> wrote:

For a few days now, when SETI Classic is running (which is all the
time) my machine slows to arthritic speeds.  I'm runinig it on a Dell
with Win2KPro.  It used to not do this.  Anybody have any suggestions?

You can have Windows slow to a crawl for various things, all unrelated to running s@h. Its just that s@h happens to be innocently running at the time.

Windows slowdowns can be:

Anti-virus scanning (make sure the s@h work files are excluded);
Anti-virus software slow net lookups, or slow updates checks;
Virus, spyware, trojans, adware junk;
MS updates 'background task';
Bad network settings or a poor connection, DNS timeouts;
Network shares timeouts;
Corrupt or too much junk in the registry;
CPU overheating and clock speed throttling.

Or if your machine seems to 'pause' for a while and then 'catch up', you might be suffering HDD problems. Time to make a backup and get a new disk!


Check your system with Memtest86+, GIMPS mprime torture test, and your manufacturer's HDD test utility.

Let us know what you find.

Good luck,
Martin