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I am going to dip my toe into the water with this project.
I need a few pointers.
IronBits
08-18-2003, 11:56 PM
This is from a Winders box...
[parameters]
id=YourName@YourDomain.DomExt ;) put your real one here
[misc]
project-priority=RC5-72=1,OGR=0 (RC5 only) OR <--- this one PCZ
project-priority=RC5-72=1,OGR=1 (with OGR and RC5) OR
project-priority=OGR=1,RC5-72=0 (OGR only)
[triggers]
exit-flag-filename=exit.now
pause-on-no-mains-power=no
[display]
progress-indicator=auto-sense
[ogr]
core=-1 (select the fastest core automatically)
[rc5-72]
core=-1 (select the fastest core automatically)
fetch-time-threshold=0
fetch-workunit-threshold=0
[processor-usage]
priority=3
[networking]
autofindkeyserver=no
keyserver=www.dbestern.com:2064 (to use Ironbits pproxy)
nofallback=false (use true if you want to force using the above pproxy)
dialup-watcher=passive
interfaces-to-watch=*
[buffers]
threshold-check-interval=0:30
IronBits
08-18-2003, 11:57 PM
Get your client here
http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.php
Good reading to understand everything :rolleyes:
http://www.distributed.net//docs/tutor_stats.php
Come on guys - lend PCZ some advice.! :Pokes:
IronBits
08-19-2003, 12:30 AM
Originally posted by PCZ
I am going to dip my toe into the water with this project.
I need a few pointers. :notworthy
Get it working on ONE boxen first!
Make sure you submit some work, then you will get an email with your password.
It will be using the information you put here
id=YourName@YourDomain.DomExt
Use a valid email address!
When you get that email which will contain your password, within 24-48 hours, then you can login with the password they sent you, change your NICK to PCZ if you like, join Free-DC etc.
Once you have that working just they way you want it...
copy the dnetc.exe and dnetc.ini file to all the other boxen
Run the dnetc.exe and it will start adding up faster. :D
Does it work OK in Linux ?
Is there a speed penalty running in linux instead of windows ?
I thought I would give it a go on some remote boot nodes.
IronBits
08-19-2003, 12:54 AM
Worky worky good stuff on just about every OS there is :thumbs:
It would be cool to see how you get it to work with PXE :D
Just do one box first, get the registration done, get your password, configure you profile... then check the stats, make sure your happy, then load it up ;)
I'll wait for you... it's gonna take a couple of days :(
but it's worth it and you need to get er done anyways...
:Pokes:
IronBits
08-19-2003, 01:59 AM
How the heck did we fall back to 187th place in this RC5 project??? :bang:
I thought we had this one covered :confused:
OK, a little help is on the way... :cheers:
Yo Phil no, not that one TheOtherPhil :) - better put a few logs on the fire over there :D
IB
I have downloaded the linux client and am running it on
the remote node boot server.
It seemed to automatically pick up on the dual CPU's.
So I just wait for a while till I show in the stats and get my password emailed ?
Beyond
08-19-2003, 07:31 AM
It's been awhile, but if I remember correctly after you show up in the stats, you have to ask for the password to be emailed to you, it is not auto-magically sent to you.
IronBits
08-19-2003, 08:23 AM
Originally posted by PCZ
IB
I have downloaded the linux client and am running it on
the remote node boot server.
It seemed to automatically pick up on the dual CPU's.
So I just wait for a while till I show in the stats and get my password emailed ? Yes, it auto-detects processors, so if you have a 16 proc node, let er rip :D
You may want/like to setup your very own pproxy Server so your nodes only have to look to your own Server to get work. ;)
http://www.distributed.net/download/proxies.php
IronBits
08-19-2003, 08:34 AM
Originally posted by Beyond
It's been awhile, but if I remember correctly after you show up in the stats, you have to ask for the password to be emailed to you, it is not auto-magically sent to you. That would hopefully be tonight sometime after 01 GMT then, if he gets some work done and uploads it :)
Woops :blush:
I think the client I started has been doing OGR !
I have edited the ini and it is doing RC5-72 now.
One of the instances may have done some RC5-72 work I hope.
wirthi
08-19-2003, 02:27 PM
As IronBits wrote in his first thread:
project-priority=RC5-72=1,OGR=0 (RC5 only) OR <--- this one PCZ
project-priority=RC5-72=1,OGR=1 (with OGR and RC5) OR
project-priority=OGR=1,RC5-72=0 (OGR only)
ONLY include the first line (up to the space) if you would OGR to be excluded ... second line means "use both", third line means "only run OGR".
Wirthi
The problem was that I didn't edit the ini at all.
I just started it up put my email adress in and left it to do what it wanted.
I just joined the team.
Probably won't show for 24 hrs.
IB
Let's get this show on the road, this teams stats suck :D
How do you monitor the clients progress ?
If I run headless then I will have no way of checking the screen output.
Is there a program like DCmonitor that I can use ?
wirthi
08-20-2003, 10:53 AM
you could setup the client to write a logfile.
Haven't used a monitor, but IIRC there are some of them ...
Darkness Productions
08-20-2003, 11:17 AM
If you setup a local personal proxy, there's stats that you can run to "monitor" them. It's not quite realtime monitoring, but it'll get the job done.
http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/rc5/files/ppstats-rc5.zip (to the stats package)
http://www.distributed.net/proxies.html (to the personal proxy page)
Originally posted by PCZ
How do you monitor the clients progress ?
If I run headless then I will have no way of checking the screen output.
Is there a program like DCmonitor that I can use ?
IronBits
08-20-2003, 03:01 PM
Originally posted by PCZ
IB
Let's get this show on the road, this teams stats suck :D On it! :D
Do the edit thing I gave you in email/PM and point it to my pproxy server, you will get stats every 30 minutes...
If you want to watch each and everyone of them, setup your own pproxy, I'll send that to you when I get home.
You want a windows or unix version of Proxy Server? ;)
Approximately how many blocks per day do you get from say a 2gig athlon ?
rsbriggs
08-20-2003, 03:35 PM
Do the edit thing I gave you in email/PM and point it to my pproxy server, you will get stats every 30 minutes...
If you want to watch each and everyone of them, setup your own pproxy, I'll send that to you when I get home.
You want a windows or unix version of Proxy Server? [/B]
Get stats, as in how? All I have is the cow.....
wirthi
08-20-2003, 03:50 PM
Originally posted by PCZ
Approximately how many blocks per day do you get from say a 2gig athlon ?
Query the "speed database" for that: http://www.distributed.net/speed/ or the direct link (x86 proc, RC5-72 project): http://n0cgi.distributed.net/speed/query.php?cputype=all&arch=0&contest=rc572
The MHz mentioned are real cpu clock speeds IIRC. So, if you have a "AMD Athlon XP (Palomino) 2000", you should get an average speed of 5,487,901.13 keys/sec.
RC5-72 blocks include 2^33 keys. Divide those two numbers, and you get about 26 minutes per block, what would lead to about 55 blocks per day.
That seems a little low in my ears, guess my calculations are wrong .. or does it fit to your ovservations?
Beyond
08-20-2003, 05:12 PM
Originally posted by wirthi
Query the "speed database" for that: http://www.distributed.net/speed/ or the direct link (x86 proc, RC5-72 project): http://n0cgi.distributed.net/speed/query.php?cputype=all&arch=0&contest=rc572
The MHz mentioned are real cpu clock speeds IIRC. So, if you have a "AMD Athlon XP (Palomino) 2000", you should get an average speed of 5,487,901.13 keys/sec.
RC5-72 blocks include 2^33 keys. Divide those two numbers, and you get about 26 minutes per block, what would lead to about 55 blocks per day.
That seems a little low in my ears, guess my calculations are wrong .. or does it fit to your ovservations?
That is low, I average 105-115 a day on XP 1800MHz. I believe the speed page has not been updated since the first RC5-72 client was released (ver.471? or 477?), the latest client .483 is considerable faster.
IronBits
08-20-2003, 07:07 PM
Originally posted by rsbriggs
Get stats, as in how? All I have is the cow..... You would be looking for THIS (http://www.dbestern.com/ppstats/rc5/byhost.html) :D
IronBits
08-20-2003, 07:08 PM
Originally posted by PCZ
Approximately how many blocks per day do you get from say a 2gig athlon ? About 120 or so... so says Stack1 :)
http://www.dbestern.com/ppstats/rc5/byhost.html ;)
or about 6.456 million keys per second :D
What time do the stats update ?
rsbriggs
08-20-2003, 08:29 PM
Somewhere around midnight GMT. If you change over to using IB's proxy server, you can get pretty new stats every 1/2 hour.....
(and your dang PM mailbox is full again.) Wonder if we could sweet-talk Dyy into increasing the mailbox size????
rsbriggs
08-20-2003, 08:51 PM
w00t !!
RSBriggs's stats
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Overall Yesterday
Rank: 29876(6648) 4270(5908)
+6,648 places overall yesterday. Now if I'd just show up on the Free-DC team stats.....
Edit:
http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmember.php?project_id=8&team=910183941
Here we are PCZ......
IronBits
08-20-2003, 09:38 PM
Schaaaaaawwweeeeeeettt! :D
:elephant: :cheers:
IronBits
08-21-2003, 02:13 AM
Overall Yesterday
Rank: 189
We dropped one place, but we are starting to climb again :thumbs:
Where's that pesky PY 222 :Pokes:
IronBits
08-21-2003, 02:15 AM
Originally posted by rsbriggs
(and your dang PM mailbox is full again.) Wonder if we could sweet-talk Dyy into increasing the mailbox size???? Up'd it to 50 from 25 I think it was.
Don't keep replies and don't use read receipts if you don't need em ;)
There are options you can deselect before sending your PMs. :rolleyes: :)
If you have ever used webmail, then you already have the nack to manage your 'inbox' :rotfl:
wirthi
08-21-2003, 11:27 AM
Originally posted by Beyond
That is low, I average 105-115 a day on XP 1800MHz. I believe the speed page has not been updated since the first RC5-72 client was released (ver.471? or 477?), the latest client .483 is considerable faster.
Guess that's the case. But did you see such a high speed improve in the client?
BTW, everybody can update that page. You can enter there what speed you have on your cpu(s).
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