Test Not Finished

[SalmonKing]

I just downloaded & installed SoB yesterday, and was running it for about 19 hours. I then had to reboot my computer, so I hit the Stop button, it told me the process had been paused, and I continued with the reboot.

When Windows started up again, I noticed that the SoB client had downloaded a new block. Here is the log file from that time :

[Wed Jul 16 14:14:36 2003] got proth test from server (k=19249, n=4118018)
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[Thu Jul 17 08:24:38 2003] n.high = 235872 . 264 blocks left in test
[Thu Jul 17 09:32:30 2003] resolving hostname
[Thu Jul 17 09:32:30 2003] opening connection
[Thu Jul 17 09:32:32 2003] temporarily unable to connect to server -- block added to submit queue
[Thu Jul 17 09:46:00 2003] block processing paused
[Thu Jul 17 09:48:44 2003] connecting to server
[Thu Jul 17 09:48:51 2003] logging into server
[Thu Jul 17 09:48:52 2003] requesting a block
[Thu Jul 17 09:49:00 2003] got proth test from server (k=27653, n=4123833)

The file 'z4118018' is still there in my SB directory.

Could the problem have come up because the last block was unable to get through when it tried to send it? Or did I do something wrong? Or is this exactly how it is supposed to work?

Thanks,

SalmonKing.

[dfamily]

I just went through a few installs last week and had the same trouble a couple of times...it seems that to prevent this, you *must* reboot after installation and changing the name but before getting the first test.

Now, in theory, (been playing with this tonight but haven't actually done it yet) you could check "on completion, exit w/o new test" and let it finish the 2nd test without getting a new one...when it's done, adjust the registry to match the first test and get it going again - don't know for sure if it would start over from scratch or pick up where it left off - I would assume pick up where it left off (if you had hit the stop button and then the ok (off hand I'm not for sure the point of save))...that's also assuming that you haven't cleared the first test in your "preferences"...

Hope that made sense...

patrick.

[SalmonKing]

Thanks for the reply.

I have located the registry key at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LhDn\sob\cache.

I understand what to do with the 'k' & 'n' values, but what about 'cache'? Does this need to stay at 2?

I have selected the option to not get a new test when current test is completed, so I'll give it a go when I am done with this one.

Thanks again!

*EDIT * On second thoughts, the current test has been running for nearly 23 hours, and is only 6.4% finished, so it looks like this one will take around 16 days to complete. Probably better to 'Expire' it, so it can go to someone else.

[dfamily]

I understand ... and from what I've read, the cache does stay at 2...

brought a partial test home from a work machine that's being retired..."exported" the LhDn key using regedit and a copy of the z file...am going to give it a go that-a-way...

found a very interesting little utility called
Multi-Remote Registry Change (http://www.eytcheson.com/mrrc.htm) and look forward to seeing if it can be useful...