Performance of my computer

[edorajh]

I just instal dnet on one of my laptops. It is Dell Celeron 2.4 GHz. I know it crunch rather fast before but somehow it seems to me that it becomes terriby slow in RC5-72. Is there anything I could check to find out what could be the problem and to fix it?

[em99010pepe]

I think Intel sucks on RC-72. Intel is faster on OGR.

Carlos

[edorajh]

This machine needs 2 hours and 40 minutes to finish one RC5-72 packet. It seems very slow. It's speed is 447,000 keys per second. It must be something wrong with this machine. Any ideas what it could be?

:confused:

[IronBits]

That is slow - according the the live Client Speeds Database


CPU Name MHz Speed
Intel Celeron 2400 4,303,895.80
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/speed/

You didn't say what OS, but assuming windows, bring up Task Manager and see what else is stealing the CPU cycles.

[edorajh]

Thanks.

I look at task manager but there is nothing else except dnet.exe

Hmmm... very strange

[Chinasaur]

Maybe it's hot and the CPU throttling is kicking in?

I have a 2.4Ghz Celeron laptop and it turns into an oven if I try to run OGR on it :(

I'll drag it out and see what RC5-72 does and let you know. I only have 256MB on it.. does small RAM matter to RC5?

[edorajh]

Possible... but it starts to behave like this the moment I turn it on.
:rolleyes:

[TeeJay]

Originally posted by edorajh
This machine needs 2 hours and 40 minutes to finish one RC5-72 packet. It seems very slow. It's speed is 447,000 keys per second. It must be something wrong with this machine. Any ideas what it could be?

:confused:

Maybe you aren't useing the correct "core" ?

>>TeeJay

[the-mk]

Originally posted by Chinasaur
... I only have 256MB on it.. does small RAM matter to RC5?

I don't think it does matter...

OGR is consuming only some Megabytes (<5 MB), and RC5 is in similar areas...

Tested on a Pentium M (Dothan core) with 512 MB RAM and Win XP SP2

Selecting the right core is sometimes helpful :D

:cheers:

[em99010pepe]

Virus?

[edorajh]

What is the correct core?

Re virus... everything is possible. Although I do have ZoneAlarm security suite on this machine. And I don't do much surfing with it. I use it mainly for DC... so I connect to take units and discontect. I scan it regularly and didn't find anything.

BTW, in Task Manager it shows that it goes above 80% to dnet.exe.

:rolleyes:

[em99010pepe]

Originally posted by edorajh
What is the correct core?

Re virus... everything is possible. Although I do have ZoneAlarm security suite on this machine. And I don't do much surfing with it. I use it mainly for DC... so I connect to take units and discontect. I scan it regularly and didn't find anything.

BTW, in Task Manager it shows that it goes above 80% to dnet.exe.

:rolleyes:

You have to test all cores to see which one is faster.

http://img1.imageuploader.net/416/test.JPG

Dnet should be at 99%! Something is wrong.

Install Ad-Aware.

Carlos

EDIT:

Check your Power Settings and turn off everything.

[Chinasaur]

I get 4.4M keys/s with Win2K, ZoneAlarm, AVG Anti-Virus, Task Manager going at 149.8MB RAM usage.

2.4Ghz Celeron, no name Chinese laptop. Win2K SP4