Hey Guys! Going to blank screen worked! After 49 hours of crunching, I'm now down to 158 hours left! That will convert to about 40 more hours of crunching, as I timed it and I'm dropping four to five minutes for every actual minute of time the computer is working on it.
I would never have thought that rather simple appearing rotating sky screen saver would tie up that much of the processor! Thanks much for the tip! I also found (not surprisingly) that when I'm running SpyBot or Adaware to clean up my computer the processing by Einstein grinds to an almost complete halt. No surprise there.
It looks like this Einstein download will now finish in about 90 hours! Not bad!
Thanks for the help, all!! John, NZ9Z
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Thanks for all the replies! Just FYI, I'm now at 21 hours of crunching Einstein and I'm only 6% done, so the estimate to completion appears to be on the ball at almost 300 to go.
My processor is an Intel Celeron, at 797 mHz, with 384 meg of RAM.
In addition to Einstein, I'm running Rosetta and Seti. Rosetta, of course has very short data files, and Seti is at about 100 hours. I have each of the three allotted 1/3 of the time, though with so long a time to completion of the Einstein work, Einstein is taking all the open time. I usually do not have BOINC running continually, as I find some of my other programs really slowed if BOINC is also computing. I have it set to start after 5 minutes of inactivity. I frequently keep the computer on overnight as I am also participating in another interesting project studying shortwave radio propagation. (It's called PropNET and you can check it out at http://propnet.org.)
I will try changing to a blank screen and let you know the results of that, though it wouldn't seem like that simple rotating sky screensaver would take that much computer power. I am running no other processor-intensive programs that I am aware of.
I'll let you know in a day or two what blanking the screen does.
Thanks again and I hope that does the trick!
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OK -- Now my downloads are over 300 hours long! I thought that new versions of BOINC/Einstein would take care of this problem. I just downloaded the newest version, 5.10.13, and my latest Einstein is 312 hours! By the way, after reading an earlier response to this problem, I've set my connect to network for every 0.1 days (not that that helped any!)
I have aborted 3 previous work files because I just couldn't finish them, even running 24/7! Why do I keep getting these huge files??? I like the project, and UWM is my Alma Mater, but if there's no way to get reasonable (like 100 hours) data files, I'm going to have to give up on Einstein!
By the way, yes, the completion time appears to be accurate, as my computer's been crunching the data for 4 hours, and I'm just 1% done!!! No way I can finish in the two week timeframe. GET REAL GUYS!!!
snip I would never have thought that rather simple appearing rotating sky screen saver would tie up that much of the processor! Thanks much for the tip! I also found (not surprisingly) that when I'm running SpyBot or Adaware to clean up my computer the processing by Einstein grinds to an almost complete halt. No surprise there.
It's usually not so bad if the computer has a graphics card to handle the brunt of the work for the screensaver, but like one of my boxes... the screensaver can eat CPU cycles up via integrated graphics. I see the same also when running SpyBot and Adaware though I usually only run the scan with them about once a month, so it's not a problem.
Hey Guys! Going to blank
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Hey Guys! Going to blank screen worked! After 49 hours of crunching, I'm now down to 158 hours left! That will convert to about 40 more hours of crunching, as I timed it and I'm dropping four to five minutes for every actual minute of time the computer is working on it.
I would never have thought that rather simple appearing rotating sky screen saver would tie up that much of the processor! Thanks much for the tip! I also found (not surprisingly) that when I'm running SpyBot or Adaware to clean up my computer the processing by Einstein grinds to an almost complete halt. No surprise there.
It looks like this Einstein download will now finish in about 90 hours! Not bad!
Thanks for the help, all!! John, NZ9Z
John R
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It's usually not so bad if the computer has a graphics card to handle the brunt of the work for the screensaver, but like one of my boxes... the screensaver can eat CPU cycles up via integrated graphics. I see the same also when running SpyBot and Adaware though I usually only run the scan with them about once a month, so it's not a problem.