Welcome Splinkio

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Welcome To the Team Splinkio, you picked the correct team...
Hmm hope you keep that speeds, some people need more competition :)
Oh Dudes make Splinkio feel welcome :):thumbs: :drums:

[FoBoT]

hi

[Splinkio]

Hehehe,

thanks :)

Lets hope that my sx-25 machine can do some serious number crunching :)

[RacerX]

Welcome Splinkio! Great to have you aboard.


:cheers:

[PCZ]

Would that be a 386 sx25 or a 486 sx25 :p

Welcome aboard

[bwkaz]

I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if the client won't run on either a 386 or 486... I think the minimum is PPro on Windows, and P-1 on *nix (or something like that -- maybe it's up to a PPro on *nix now too).

But anyway, welcome! :|party|:

[Splinkio]

Heh,

Oooooo the sx-25 .. those were the days .. I remember when I had a dx2-66 laptop for about 6 billion pounds too :)

I am running a Quad Xeon 2.8 on A Supermicro Board with 4 gb of interleaved memory. Also got a 3.2 p4 clocked at 3.4 doing some work too, and various other machines around the house .. a p3 1 ghz laptop :)

Thanks for welcoming me guys

[Anteraan]

Glad to have you Splinkio. Your list o' boxen is impressive, and we welcome you. I'm fairly new here myself, but I think you'll find this a good group of people. Actually, I think most of us are nuts, but we're nicely mixed nuts. :D

Glad to have you aboard! :cheers:

[Paratima]

:hiya:

[cygnussphere]

:hifi:

:thumbs:

:tempted:

:evil:

:cheers:

[Fozzie]

Nice 1 Gopher for getting the welcome in, I must be slipping.

Hope you have your clients optimised Splinkio?!

If you have any questions let us know.

[Splinkio]

Erm I dont think I have :)

Ill tell you what I have done:

Downloaded the client, running with 150 meg memory, no editing of any ini file, or any txt file, just everything default. I assume this is not the most efficient way to do it :)

Looking at some of the outputs, some people are doing a million plus a day, I think I am only managing about 200,000 a day, so im doing something wrong somewhere :)

If there is anyone who can help me getting those numbers up then that would be most appreciated.

Now I am going to put in some silly faces to make this message look funky..

:Pokes: :bang: :|party|: :spank: :|punch|: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant: :elephant:

[magicfan241]

Looking at some of the outputs, some people are doing a million plus a day, I think I am only managing about 200,000 a day, so im doing something wrong somewhere


Hey, you just don't have as much firepower as some people. If I were to switch everything onto DF, I would get around 120,000 a day, tops.

Don't feel bad, and find more computers......:Pokes:

[Thor]

Originally posted by Splinkio
I am running a Quad Xeon 2.8 on A Supermicro Board with 4 gb of interleaved memory. Also got a 3.2 p4 clocked at 3.4 doing some work too, and various other machines around the house .. a p3 1 ghz laptop :)


With that kind of firepower he should be able to do more than 200,000 a day...
I have a XP 1800 and somertimes a PIV 2.66Ghz running. If both are running I can do 120,000 a day or even more..

So Splinko , are you using the text client? I guess so, but are you running it in quiet mode? try it... It improves performance quite a bit....it is the -qt switch I think, but you could also use dfgui (http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/dfGUI/) to add the switches and to monitor the client...there is also another program out to monitor different clients from a different machine but I forgot what it is called:blush:
And don't forget that you have do to 4 installs of the client on that 4way Xeon..
Otherwise it will only use 1 cpu.

Oh, and I forgot: WELCOME aboard :cheers: :|party|: :elephant: :drums:

Greets Thor

[Splinkio]

Thanks for that info.

Yer I am running 4 clients on the Xeon machine and they are running as fast as I can expect them to.

I will try quiet mode and see if that makes any difference, and I am running the text client also. I can try running on a few other machines at work - we have a few server farms at work mainly compromising of 60+ HP Prolient DL 580 with 4 2.4 xeons and 2 gb memory, so I imagine they will be able to bump out some power - however, i dont wanna interrupt the performance of those machines really.

I got a few other machines at home which I could run the client on (will take it up to about 10 instances of the client running) so ill see if that bumps up the performance.

[Fozzie]

The biggest difference in performance is adding the -rt switch which uses extra RAM.

so you should have -rt -qt as your switches in your foldit.bat file.

DF can run as a service if you are running M$ OSes.

This requires a one off command line of foldtrajlite /install and install1, install2, install3 for further instances.

they read from a newly created service.cfg file which you will need to add

useram=1 to so that it uses extra RAM.

I don't know about issues with multiple service installs as I haven't any quad boixen.

[Splinkio]

Okidockey,

Well hopefully when I get home i can try it. Ill try and see if i can get it on a few servers here to benchmark it against mine at home.

Thanks for all your help again guys - guess I'll have to go out and purchase a few machines and install linux on there see if that runs any faster.

I am sure i will be able to pick a few 2ghz boxes up for a few hundred pounds - ebay here we come :)

Will be interesting to see though - my xeons being oem and the HP boxes here being HP xeons - im guessing that the 2.4 HP xeon will out perform a 2.8 oem one ...

well .. we will wait and see an dill post the results if you guys really wanna know :)

[Paratima]

Originally posted by Splinkio
well .. we will wait and see an dill post the results if you guys really wanna know :) Yes, we do! And I think you'll find that Quiet Mode does make a huge difference, maybe more than extra RAM. ;)

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

He he Fozzie, Your not slipping, I persuded him to join up, he had a few erm spare boxen and he seems to like the challange

Yeah He thinks He can take on me soon :> who does he think he is... Anarchy99 :p
(sorry Splinkio no offence meant)

[Splinkio]

Well I think I got things kinda sorted. I did a little calculation based on my performance overnight, and it looks like ill be hitting 1.7 million (hopefully) by about monday morning at 06:00.

Thanks for all your help guys.

[Splinkio]

Ok so i lied.

Im doing a little bit better than i expected. I had to let 2 of my xeons go though, as I need the money to buy a house at the end of the year, so i sold those and my quad board so i am running on less power at home now - down to about 7 processors in all :(