RE: RE: Completely spinning down an EIDE hard drive

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

Op vr 13-06-2003, om 17:52 schreef Mark Knecht:
> > Seti Home? I used to run it on my XP machines; I did about 147 WU
> > (work units). Sadly, I haven't been able to install it on my
> > Linux box; it's not an RPM and it comes without any installation
> > manual.  In XP it takes just a couple of clicks.
> >
> > I really would like to have Seti running again, can you please
> > tell me how to get it installed.  It may be simple, but I have no idea.
> >
> > Albert
> 
> Albert,
>    Hey, great to hear from another Seti Home fan! My original email address
> disappeared in the @Home/AT&T fiasco, so I cannot control my account
> anymore. I just go on submitting work units as markknecht home com  I'm
> currently at 17,612 work units this morning and in the top .1% of
> contributors at # 4461! I got down as far as being about # 4190, but have
> slipped backwards over the last few months. Here's my stats page:
> 
> http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?email=markknecht home com&c
> md=user_stats_new
> 
>    It's quite easy to install under Linux. Go here:
> 
> http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html
> 
> Search the page for:
> 
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> and then download. It's a zipped tar file. Installation is very, very
> straight forward. Just untar and pretty much run it. The only trick is to
> run it in its own directory, and always the same directory. If you have
> trouble drop me a note.
> 
>    I've never figured out their cron instructions. Actually, I've really
> never figured out cron! ;-)
> 
>    I run on about 10 machines and have been running pretty much continuously
> for 4 years. Still looking for the little green men though. No luck there...
> (Yet!!) ;-)

Hi Mark,

I used to run Seti dedicated 24/24 (no graphics) on my i686, 2.4 GHz
machine at home. I did those 147 WU in a just a couple of weeks. I had
to do some 'tuning' to get that speed.  My first Seti WU took 18 hours
to process, finally I managed to get it done in 2h45'. My only fear was
about over-heating the CPU.  My computer is in a closet, with poor air
cooling.  I used to keep the door open, but one night my cat bumped to
that door, so the next morning the cooling fans were desperately blowing
like hell. To my relief, I learned that the CPU's protection would shut
it down at 65 °C. (I hope that's true?)

I also tried to get Seti installed on our 2000 PC's LAN in the company
were I work.  The management didn't like the idea (these guys are both
paranoid and bone-headed).

OK, I'll give Seti a try under Linux one of these days. (I wonder if it
would run faster than the Windoze version)

I'll keep you posted.

Have a nice day and week-end.

Albert
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
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