From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_victor.MCESTATE.COM)
Date: Sun Aug 01 1999 - 10:47:16 EDT
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Juan-Carlos Lerman wrote:
> 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
Interesting... I was always wondering what the SETI part was...
> > > >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?
Oops, guess you missed that part... I have 256MB of RAM on a 770Z
9549-8AU. I had 128MB RAM two days ago... Just upgraded two days ago
using the $197 Crucial/Micron 128MB memory module... Funny thing is the
128MB is the only size where the board is Micron's but the chips are NEC.
Cheers,
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