E@H too "nice"?
25 Jun 2005 7:48:07 UTC
Topic 189412
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I have a Pentium 200 MMX running at 266, dedicated to E@H. The OS is win98se and I had been using 4.19. It completed a WU in ~112 hours. I switched to 4.45 to try to solve a problem, but generated a new problem instead. In the 4.45 work window, CPU time was increasing but there seemed to be no change in % completed. It stayed at 00.00%. I switched back to 4.19 and it now has the same problem - CPU time increasing, but no apparent progress. I let it run this way for several hours and discovered that it was making progress. I was getting 00.06% after 13 hours and the projection to complete was over 4000 hours and increasing.
I installed "Process Explorer" since win98 does not give process share % with ALT-CNTL-DEL. Process Explorer showed "System Idle Process PID 0x0" using 70-90% and E@H only a few percent. Fortunately Process Explorer allows changes in process priority. I moved E@H to high and now it is running more normally and getting 85-90% of the CPU time. When I updated the project, still in 4.19, the problem of low CPU % reappeared and I had to increase E@H priority again.
Is there anyway that I can get back to "normal" E@H operation, i.e. not have to manually set the priority?
Here's the computer
Thanks,
Joe B
E@H too "nice"?
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If I recall correctly an upgrade from 4.1x to >4.2x you had to uninstall 4.1x
before installing the new one.
If you installed 4.45 over 4.19 I guess something is still inside the registery that might cause a problem.
RE: If I recall correctly
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Hi Sharkey,
Joe B
RE: If I recall correctly
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Hi Sharkey,
Joe B
RE: If I recall correctly
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Hi Sharkey,
I did the uninstall both times 4.19->4.45 and then 4.45->4.19.
Thanks for responding
Joe B
Joe B
This might sound stupid.. but
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This might sound stupid.. but I take the risk. ;)
Any chans that you have changed the priority of the idle process higher
without you knowing about it. :)
But I guess that should have been reseted whenever you coldboot the machine(or does it?),and my guess is that you done that. ;)
Looong time since I been dealing with Win98..strange thing going on there.
RE: This might sound
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Hi Sharky,
I did try to use Process Explorer to reduce the "idle priority". It would or could not. The only thing that worked was to raise both BOINC and E@H to "high" priority. Then the computer started acting almost normal. But every time I rebooted, I had to reraise the two priorities. It is like I somehow screwed up the BOINC automatic priority scheme and now have to do it manually.
Joe B
In WinXP the priorities are
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In WinXP the priorities are "normal" for Boinc and "low" for apps.
And setting those to "high" in win98 doesn't sound right.
Maybe the 4.45 install messed up Windows somehow.(or the registery)
I'm out of ideas... anyone out there?