My Einstein is way too slow. How can I speed it up?

Matt Aiken
Matt Aiken
Joined: 25 Feb 05
Posts: 1
Credit: 157891
RAC: 0
Topic 188077

I've been running Einstein for about 4 or 5 days and it only has 28%. I run Seti@Home and it runs pretty fast. I have set the resource to 100 like the Seti program and have had the Einstein pro be the only process running and still nothing. I doubt it's server probs. I use a T1 line and have a Pentium 2 400 with plenty of hard drive space. Any advice would be appreciated I would like to participate faster.
Thanks,
Matt

Seti-Cruncher
Seti-Cruncher
Joined: 9 Feb 05
Posts: 70
Credit: 7114
RAC: 0

My Einstein is way too slow. How can I speed it up?

> I've been running Einstein for about 4 or 5 days and it only has 28%. I run
> Seti@Home and it runs pretty fast. I have set the resource to 100 like the
> Seti program and have had the Einstein pro be the only process running and
> still nothing. I doubt it's server probs. I use a T1 line and have a Pentium
> 2 400 with plenty of hard drive space. Any advice would be appreciated I
> would like to participate faster.
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
I don't run Einstein on my PII-400 (because it is a relatively slow machine) so I can't give you actual times as a guide but I have observed that Einstein WUs take roughly twice as long in Windows and three times as long in Linux as Seti WUs. :(

Be lucky,

Neil

debugas
debugas
Joined: 11 Nov 04
Posts: 170
Credit: 77331
RAC: 0

Try disabling E@H screen

Message 5737 in response to message 5736

Try disabling E@H screen saver - it may slow down calculations significantly if you have an old video-card

Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen
Moderator
Joined: 15 Oct 04
Posts: 1119
Credit: 172127663
RAC: 0

> I've been running Einstein

> I've been running Einstein for about 4 or 5 days and it only has 28%. I run
> Seti@Home and it runs pretty fast. I have set the resource to 100 like the
> Seti program and have had the Einstein pro be the only process running and
> still nothing. I doubt it's server probs. I use a T1 line and have a Pentium
> 2 400 with plenty of hard drive space. Any advice would be appreciated I
> would like to participate faster.

The graphics can consume a lot of CPU time. Please see the FAQ list on the E@H front page for some hints about this.

Bruce

Director, Einstein@Home

Daniel Michel
Daniel Michel
Joined: 3 Mar 05
Posts: 4444
Credit: 586496
RAC: 0

i think...by their

i think...by their nature...whether it be larger files to crunch...or the nature of the calculations involved...an einstein work unit is going to naturally take longer to crunch than a seti work unit...it's taking longer for me to crunch an einstein work unit too...but setting the screensaver to shut off after a short while really does speed things up.

Blank Reg
Blank Reg
Joined: 18 Jan 05
Posts: 228
Credit: 40599
RAC: 0

Looks like your p2 is to slow

Looks like your p2 is to slow to run E@H even if it was not running anything else so you will miss the DEADLINE. Do you run 24/7?

Ziran
Ziran
Joined: 26 Nov 04
Posts: 194
Credit: 356403
RAC: 1626

My pIII 450 does a WU in 40H,

My pIII 450 does a WU in 40H, so your pII 400 should do a WU in about 45H.

Id recommend that you set the value for “connect to project every� to 0.1 or lower, to minimize the risk of returning results late and to improve the turnaround time.

Then you're really interested in a subject, there is no way to avoid it. You have to read the Manual.

The Gas Giant
The Gas Giant
Joined: 18 Jan 05
Posts: 72
Credit: 3109569
RAC: 0

Get a faster computer. My

Get a faster computer. My 3.2GHz HT takes up to 12hrs on one cpu.....a p2 400 should take forever.

Live long and crunch!

Paul

Jord
Joined: 26 Jan 05
Posts: 2952
Credit: 5779100
RAC: 0

> Get a faster computer.

Message 5743 in response to message 5742

> Get a faster computer.

If you're buying, Paul, sign me up for a new one. :D

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.