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    Performance of my computer

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

    Carlos

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    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?

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    That is slow - according the the live Client Speeds Database
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    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.

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    Thanks.

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

    Hmmm... very strange
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    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?
    Agent Smith was right!: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell! If there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."

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

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

    >>TeeJay

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    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

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    Virus?

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    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.

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    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.

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



    Dnet should be at 99%! Something is wrong.

    Install Ad-Aware.

    Carlos

    EDIT:

    Check your Power Settings and turn off everything.
    Last edited by em99010pepe; 02-16-2005 at 05:28 PM.

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    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
    Agent Smith was right!: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell! If there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."

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