Is this normal?

I\'m donating 100% of an old Dell PowerEdge 6300 server. (4) Intel Pentium 3 Xeon 550 MHz Processors, 2 GB of RAM, Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Edition w/ SP1.

All 4 processors are maxed out at 100%. All non-essential services and processes have been stopped. Each BOINC process has 24 or 25% of the total onboard processor time.

Did I just get a large work load? Am I doing something wrong and wasting electricity?

At this rate it\'ll be a little over 2.3 years to reach 100%

Regards,
Brad

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A model will take about 3 months on a 3.2GHz computer running 24/7 with no other programs.
The recommended minimum speed of 1.6GHz is so that the model will complete in a realistic time.
550MHz is a third of this, so several years IS probable.
And make sure that you make regular backups, because unrecoverable crashes often occur, for many reasons.

Thanks! I think I\'m going to terminate while I\'m still ahead and go get some more horsepower to help this along.

Thanks for that minimum requirement as well.

Best regards,
Brad