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> Now, I don't know -why- this was the problem, because this machine is a
> 1.1 GHz Athlon with 1G of ECC memory.  And when I run setiathome in the
> background at priority 20, it basically only soaks up unused cycles.

on my Pentium 133 i'm getting full 10Mbps speed while system is loaded
with 3 concurrent compilations on normal priority.

so the problem is somewhere else