my computer seems slow :


2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_intelx86
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Running under account Shannon M. McMillen
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz [Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3]
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Processor: 1.00 MB cache
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni pbe
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 3.85 GB virtual
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Disk: 202.75 GB total, 4.83 GB free
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Local time is UTC -7 hours
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | No usable GPUs found
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1351140; resource share 100
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | General prefs: from http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ (last modified 18-Sep-2006 13:05:07)
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Host location: none
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | General prefs: using your defaults
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Reading preferences override file
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Preferences:
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | max memory usage when active: 1023.21MB
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 1841.78MB
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | max disk usage: 5.21GB
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | don't use GPU while active
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
2/14/2012 9:03:37 PM | | Not using a proxy
2/14/2012 9:03:38 PM | World Community Grid | Restarting task c4cw_target05_095816729_1 using c4cw version 640
2/14/2012 9:03:38 PM | World Community Grid | Restarting task c4cw_target05_099402051_0 using c4cw version 640
2/14/2012 9:06:06 PM | | Running CPU benchmarks
2/14/2012 9:06:07 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
2/14/2012 9:06:38 PM | | Benchmark results:
2/14/2012 9:06:38 PM | | Number of CPUs: 2
2/14/2012 9:06:38 PM | | 791 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2/14/2012 9:06:38 PM | | 1475 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2/14/2012 9:06:39 PM | | Resuming computation
2/14/2012 9:06:39 PM | World Community Grid | Starting task c4cw_target05_096835069_0 using c4cw version 640
2/14/2012 9:06:39 PM | World Community Grid | Starting task c4cw_target05_098011595_0 using c4cw version 640

this is a 3 ghz p4 478 socket cpu....


help?

Comparatives, what kind of credits are we talking about? It might be possibble that you might be expecting to much.
Regards.

Has the looks of a hyperthreaded P4, trying to squeeze 2 jobs onto 1 core. Though this is not anomalous, count on the task running 2 times as long minus about 15%, compared to a P4 without hyperthreading being used. This means that the P4-HT still does about 1.15 times the amount of work of just running 1 thread.

If you want to run the tasks faster on that device, set BOINC to use 50% of processors.

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