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Former Member
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I loaded the software onto a PIII at work running win 98 SE. The software seems to run calculations for about 30 seconds and the connects to the server and downloads between 800 and 100K. Runs again for about 30 secs and then repeats the downloading and so on and so on.........
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Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I loaded the software onto a PIII at work running win 98 SE. The software seems to run calculations for about 30 seconds and the connects to the server and downloads between 800 and 100K. Runs again for about 30 secs and then repeats the downloading and so on and so on......... Any ideas? How much RAM do you have in your system? What's the speed of your P3?
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Former Member
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192MB
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
oops, It's actually a PII, 192MB, 350Mhz
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Former Member
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i have a pII celeron 366 on 128 MB running w2k and have a similar experience only mine reconnects every 90 secs ( other 4 machines run smoothly ) cant figger out why this one doesnt
----------------------------------------even the oldest machine a p1-200mhz on 128mb win98se is processing workunits slowly but smoothly.. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Nov 20, 2004 5:42:53 PM] |
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Former Member
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Former Member
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even playing with the storage amount did not get this thing crunching
it is really depressing me why this wont work if it doesnt start working within a really short time, i think i'll withdraw all my other machines too..  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
woohoo,
 i think i finnaly nailed the problem of the continuesly getting wu's from the server every 30-90 secs, took about 5 days but last night it gave me an error wich i took care of and now its crunching :) i dun know how to change that setting in win98se but my problem in w2k is solved by increasing the paging file ( virtual memory) on the harddisk on which the wcg client is running, normaly one has paging file allocated on the primary c- drive but since i got the client installed on the e-drive i needed to increase a paging file for this drive too and then it started crunching instead of the ongoing polling the server after 90 secs. hope this info can help others too... i reckon the above also applies for XP but not sure. still for w98se i have no clue on how the paging file must be increased as most win98 machines have their virtual memory controlled by windows itself... maybe somebody else could enlighten others on that subject my machine with w98se/client seems to run slowly but smoothly though happy crunching all... |
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Former Member
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I am having the same problem. I am running Windows 98. Yesterday I just upgraded from a 500mhz PII Celeron with 384 megs of memory to an Intel P4 2.4 Ghz with 512 megs of DDR 3200 400 mhz memory. Every few minutes my processing stops and about a megabyte of data is downloaded. In the past I manually adjusted the Windows automatic paging size and that did nothing but cause my system to crash and hang. I also need to know what is causing this problem
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Former Member
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may i ask why you run w98 on a p4 ??
get some xp or w2k for a p4  |
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