allenfinch
09-27-2004, 11:08 PM
I'm sorry if this question doesn't make complete sense. I don't feel I have a good grasp on this project so forgive any foolishness. I feel I have pretty thoroughly read the faq and threads on this forum and I still don't understand the behavior of the client.
how many generations between uploads to server on present work?
How often does the dhep stats page update?
How often are resets occuring/new work handed out or how often is the client forced to download from the server?
I ask these things for the following reason.
I'm on dial-up. 2ghz athlonxp
I have been running for only a few days. When I first start the client while my connection is up I seem to accumulate stats rapidly. The first few hours I ran the client I had 50-100k gens and a few million circuits shown in stats. Does this seem correct or even possible?
Then I disconnect for the night. Next morning I reconnect. I realize my settings are to connect every hour, but my connection was up for a number of hours that morning so the client had ample time to try its hourly connect. Even though I had crunched a few hundred thousand gens through the night I show some stats growth, but only a fraction of what I showed crunching many fewer gens while connected the night before.
In short, upon reconnecting, I don't seem to get the level of credit that I get crunching with a fresh client start and keeping my connection up.
This has been my experience a number of times over during the first few days of crunching.
Is this expected behavior? If so could someone explain why it works like this.
If not, is it possible there is some glitch that causes the client to behave in unexpected ways when connections are not consistent?
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Final question: in the" Can't seem to connect section" of the faq there is this line
"If you're behind a firewall, try opening port 1777"
but this port is not listed anywhere else in explanations or advice about firewalls, including the faq which earlier stated the requirement to open 4 ports 1098,1099,2010,2011
What is the reason for this advice and port that doesn't seem to correspond to anything else I've seen about the client?
how many generations between uploads to server on present work?
How often does the dhep stats page update?
How often are resets occuring/new work handed out or how often is the client forced to download from the server?
I ask these things for the following reason.
I'm on dial-up. 2ghz athlonxp
I have been running for only a few days. When I first start the client while my connection is up I seem to accumulate stats rapidly. The first few hours I ran the client I had 50-100k gens and a few million circuits shown in stats. Does this seem correct or even possible?
Then I disconnect for the night. Next morning I reconnect. I realize my settings are to connect every hour, but my connection was up for a number of hours that morning so the client had ample time to try its hourly connect. Even though I had crunched a few hundred thousand gens through the night I show some stats growth, but only a fraction of what I showed crunching many fewer gens while connected the night before.
In short, upon reconnecting, I don't seem to get the level of credit that I get crunching with a fresh client start and keeping my connection up.
This has been my experience a number of times over during the first few days of crunching.
Is this expected behavior? If so could someone explain why it works like this.
If not, is it possible there is some glitch that causes the client to behave in unexpected ways when connections are not consistent?
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Final question: in the" Can't seem to connect section" of the faq there is this line
"If you're behind a firewall, try opening port 1777"
but this port is not listed anywhere else in explanations or advice about firewalls, including the faq which earlier stated the requirement to open 4 ports 1098,1099,2010,2011
What is the reason for this advice and port that doesn't seem to correspond to anything else I've seen about the client?