I hate F@H now. I used to do it. Too much competition. Takes up a lot of ram. And I think XS still does.
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I hate F@H now. I used to do it. Too much competition. Takes up a lot of ram. And I think XS still does.
The only problem I have with F@H is that you don't own your work... the team you are on does. And actually it's the person that starts a team that owns it.
Not fun in case you want to move around or if the team decides to go in a direction you no longer wish to follow. :shrug:
this is true, i really loved SETI, u did get to own your work but i couldnt find a team i liked to i got out of it and came to D2OL
Phoenix Rising was my SETI@Home team and the place where I really got into the online world. That team was the absolute best around 4 or 5 years ago right after they formed. Now I'm just not into SETI@Home or BOINC so I put all my resources into medical type projects. D2OL is one of the easiest DC projects I've run. It's very handsoff which is nice. ;)
And a great benefit is that you help out people. :) I'd rather help instead of search for aliens. :D
Yea we still have a team for F@H... but D2OL is way more popular here... Our F@H team is all but dead :(
Right now my Athlon XP-M, which I have running at 2Ghz, is out performing my P4 3.06Ghz (HT enabled) with two instances. Does that seem right?
Has anyone noticed that while running D2OL certain things are kind of choppy, ie trying to change the screen saver?
Also is it better to run 4 instances on a dual xeon with HT or 2? Would two AMD 2800+ Sempron computers perform better than a single dual xeon 1.6GHz (maybe running around 3Ghz) machine.
Thanks.
my sempron 2200+ @ stock outperforms my p4 520 @ 2975MHz (two instances) as well
A dual Xeon Machine would out perform 2 Semphron rigs... an Xeon rig would probably cost less too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helheim
I take it your P4 is a 533MHz bus chip... I would expect the XP-M to do a little better... depending on what the XP-M is running at.
And it is definitely better to run 4 clients on a dual Xeon rig with HT! It will make a big difference!
How many candidates are your Sempron rigs putting out? I'm a bit shocked that they are doing more than your P4?
A program called D2OL Daddy will fix that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helheim
http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/D2OLdaddy/
I have D2OL Daddy installed, I used your script :). Most things are fine I just finds it's a few things that it happens with, ie changing screen savers.
Yeap it's a 533MHz(133Mhz) bus chip and I do have the XP-M(2400+) running at 200Mhz.
It would seem that D2OL Daddy won't work as a service... you have to run it manually from the "C:\XS_D2OL\D2OL Daddy" folder...Quote:
Originally Posted by Helheim
You can disable the service in the service manager (Right click on the my computer icon and select manage... go to services and disable ddaddy)
That should fix it.
little question here:
Where can i check how many candidates i have completed so far?
The "status-window" tells me i completed 108 cands, but it seems as if my last upload (22 tasks) isn`t included.
On free-dc.org it shows me (nick silence) the "right" number of 130 cands and my last update of 22.
So is it a bug or something? :confused:
Which number of cands is right?
do you have 2 instances running or one? The status window shows how many cands have been completed by that particular node
Only one instance installed and running :stick:
my sempron puts out just over 100 a day. smae with the p4. it is close, but the sempron gets like 2 or 3 more. the sempron just crunches all day though, i dont touch it. i use the p4 as my main computer, so i am on it alotQuote:
Originally Posted by Jeff
no other nodes at all?? Maybe the status display takes a while to update?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashe
nothingQuote:
Originally Posted by Disposibleteen
Still only 108 Cands displayed, but doesn`t matter as long as they go to the xs.org team, i don`t need 'em at home anyway :D
Is it that D2OL Daddy won't work as a service or that it can't change the priority of the D2OL.exe process or DocWin.exe process when they are running as a service? I've notice that when these processes are running as a service I can't even manually go it and change their priority. If I don't run them as a service it's not a problem though.
No... it's D2OL Daddy. It dosn't work as a service. If you run it manually in the sys tray it works fine with the Agents running as services.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helheim
I'm still trying to find a fix for this but haven't been able to come up with one yet.
How can I tell how much time I have left until the 6 hours are up and a node is ready to make a dump?
You can use DSpy to see when you last uploaded if you have it running as a service...Quote:
Originally Posted by shmaa
Or if you are running it as normal... just right click on the D2OL icon in the sys tray and select status... at the bottom it will show you the next scheduled update.
ahh ok.. the stats server is down.. i thought i missed something because i thought it was time for an upload
thanks
Am I missing something.... it runs fine on my dually xeon rig as a service. When did this come about?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rodzilla