Space Forum / SETI / July 2004

July 30, 2004
The project is *still* down. The database cleanup for the bug found on July
28 is going much slower than expected. We hope to have everything back up
later today or early tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I've been using SETI@home for years now.  I've set it up at the
colleges I attended, at home and at work.  But here recently, I've
been thinking about the point of it.
To my knowledge, SETI@home is out of new data completely.  So what

I am using SETI Gate, and since about 3 weeks ago, it is unable to
return results or update my user data. Apparently, in the past month,
SETI@Home changed the SETI host address.  Currently, SetiGate is set
to use shserver.ssl.berkeley.edu.  Has the host address for WU's

A while ago I had a work unit complete in 9 minutes +/- some seconds - usual
time is around 20 hours or so.
I think this indicated either a corrupted wu or maybe a test wu. Would this be
correct? Curious...

It takes me 3 hours 40 minutes on a P4 2.8 Ghz 533 FSB with DDR 333 Mhz
ram.  Is that what is expected from this setup?  I tried searching the
groups but didn't get any similar setups.

Has anyone set up auto dial for seti wu,s on windows xp?
If so did you use computer management or communications.?
Having a bit of trouble setting it up in xp. Had no problems in 95 and
98.

Open question to anyone in the group.
A few days ago I downloaded McAfee to set up a firewall. Once it was installed
the SETI@Home program slowed to a snails pace. I turned McAfee off and the
program was still slow so I uninstalled the McAfee and now SETI is running

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I am aware the SETI-BOINC software can make use of multiprocessor
machines. Can the software sense and make use of hyper threaded virtual
CPUs? For example - a dual HT enabled Xeon could run 4 instances at the
same time!!

For some positive notes for boinc s@h, see:
"message of encouragement to Seti@home development team"
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=1988
There's also links to some good (unofficial) boinc documentation in the

Date 26.7.04.
Completed  work  unit  with  unusual  readings!
Strongest  peak  1201.48
Power 537.661

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

Running BOINC 3.20 CLI on linux box.  Notice Boincseti site is back up but
my log showed communication was being deferred for 2+ hours.  Since I had
two WU's to upload and was down to the last hour on my current WU I tried
the -update_prefs URL (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu) and

I had this problem before (also posted to this group). I completely
deleted BOINC and Seti from my computer and reinstalled it.
I got one WU after a few days of waiting :), which is finished now.
Everytime BOINC launches, it tries to transfer the result and crashes.

Everything seems to be running. I can upload finished WU's. I can update.
Haven't hit low watermark yet, so I cannot check if there is fresh work
available. I see no complaints about a lack of WU's. Is that correct? I
everybody getting a reasonable amount of work?