From: Juan-Carlos Lerman (jclerman_at_netzero.net)
Date: Sun Aug 01 1999 - 10:27:06 EDT
Vincent Poy wrote:
........................
> I guess you have less apps running than I do... I'm running
> Norton SystemWorks... What is SETI_at_Home anyways?
It's the "real thing" shown in fiction by Jodi Foster's search
in the movie "Contact" for data analysis from the Arecibo
Observatory intended to detect extraterrestrial signals. A
total of, up to now, close to 1 million pc's doing "distributed
parallel computing": you can volunteer your computer's idle
time or full-time processing in the background. See:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkley.edu
> > >and what apps are
> >
> > Those under "other" plus:
> > Netscape Navigator, Netscape Mail, NZCast (one of NetZero's apps)
>
> Oh okay...
>
> > > you running with those figures and were you connected online at the time?
> >
> > Yes, via NetZero which runs several apps using up to 35% CPU
>
> Hmmm, interesting...
>
> > Currently the figures are 72, 51, 51
> >
> > Adding IExplorer and one more Navigator window:
> > 69, 46, 46
> > Adding NotePad: 68, 44, 44
> > Adding WordPad: 63, 43, 43
> >
> > Later today I'll have the values for total RAM = 96, 64, 32MB
> >
> > What are your values, apps, tray, RAM, TP#?
>
> Hmmm, mines starts at 68, 68, 79 and then as soon as I run MSIE 5
> with two windows, it goes down to 36/36/49.... Right now it's 26/26/40.
> Upon bootup, I have Norton AntiVirus/CleanSweep/Recycle Bin
> Protection/CrashGuard, Windows Shceduler, UltraBay, Battery/AC,
> ConfigSafe, PCMCIA, Speaker, SocketWatch, MSN QuickView, MSN Messenger,
> Real Audio Plus G2, Resource Meter, and ICQ... This is with 68, 68, 79.
> So I logon to the net and then it goes to 65/65/78, the only thing that
> changed is the DUN is now up and ICQ and MSN Messenger is now active. So
> I run two MSIE 5.0 windows and two SecureCRT Telnet sessions and it goes
> to 36/36/49 then it slowly eats up more resources as time goes on.
Sure it does! I have seen it much lower on 32MB of RAM.
How much RAM do you have on your machine? Is it a TP770 1AU?
JC
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