DC Vault

hanluc · 4 Sep 2012 at 16:42

PhilthyPhil said:
The WUs seem to be massive. Its saying about 10 days to complete

The ones I've picked up are going to complete in less than 4 days, this is on a 2700K, are you running 4 WUs and do you have HT enabled? I did notice that with HT on it was only using 50% CPU despite the client saying it was using 1-2 cores for one WU, 3-4 cores for another ..etc, so I turned it off, and it's now maxed out, I did try running 2 instances but it just seem to take twice as long, maybe there's a slight percentage advantage but I couldn't see it.

j_Remos · 4 Sep 2012 at 17:11

I might give 17 or bust a look tomorrow. will finish these 16 units first.. from memory GIMPS does suck on CPUs so it was a silly idea... but thats what holidays are for.. the forgetting of information

PhilthyPhil · 4 Sep 2012 at 20:31

I think the initial estimate was off as the estimated completion date keeps getting earlier and they are now on about 55%, so 4 days it probably about right.

j_Remos · 5 Sep 2012 at 09:22

hmm... those TF units completed in 1.3 days.. Think i will keep GIMPS up till the end of the day before i swap (37% complete on the second set of WU), i got a feeling i can get a bump out of it and its still low hanging fruit. We need to grab all the gains we can if we want to stay ahead of EVGA.

hanluc · 5 Sep 2012 at 09:42

Don't worry mate I'm harvesting that low hanging fruit

I'm doing one every 20mins.

j_Remos · 5 Sep 2012 at 16:19

well i've switched to 17orBust but i'm not sure what use i will be. CPU only so these WUs are SLOW

still.. at least i can do 16 at a time.

Are there any settings i can fiddle with to improve performance?

hanluc · 5 Sep 2012 at 22:48

j_Remos said:
well i've switched to 17orBust but i'm not sure what use i will be. CPU only so these WUs are SLOW still.. at least i can do 16 at a time.

Are there any settings i can fiddle with to improve performance?

I'm pretty green myself, but as I said in a previous thread with HT on the CPU load ran at 50% with it off 100%, so watch out for that, and the windows client reports to the server once a day by default, I *believe* the daily credit is only temporary until the WU is complete.

I have 4 threads running with HT off and each WU will take just under 4 days on a 2700K, credit seems to be around 10T a day.

j_Remos · 6 Sep 2012 at 09:00

Hmm.. well these WUs are gonna take 10 days on my E5620s... they are only 2.4Ghz chips though. I will wait ans see what daily credit i get before i worry.

PhilthyPhil · 6 Sep 2012 at 22:49

I notice DIMES has been added back on DC Vault since they fixed their stats. Our ranking on there is pretty good but it might be worth doing anyway since it runs in the background and uses virtually no resources. The project is supposed to be trying to map the internet or something just doing traceroute and ping. I used to run this ages ago but have not installed it on any recent builds and I think all the systems I originally installed on have been relaced now. It has been 6 years!

hanluc · 7 Sep 2012 at 07:23

@Remos you're looking pretty good so far, 10T on your first day, we took 19 places in SoB yesterday :cool:

@Phil I'll check dimes out.

..and we almost certainly will take 13th spot today, as well as how great we're doing in SoB, I've just dumped 500 Gimp WUs.

j_Remos · 7 Sep 2012 at 10:13

hanluc said:
I've just dumped 500 Gimp WUs.

Good Work!

j_Remos · 7 Sep 2012 at 10:18

Oh and... We are now 13th... with a healthy lead too.

Great big step up to 12th though... May not be possible but we can try

PhilthyPhil · 14 Sep 2012 at 12:42

SoB seems to be out of work now

hanluc · 14 Sep 2012 at 16:15

Haven't noticed it here Phil, finished a couple of work units around 3pm today and it got new ones, this is on Windows.

j_Remos · 14 Sep 2012 at 16:35

No problem here, but i'm still working the same units... Might finish them on monday perhaps

hanluc · 22 Sep 2012 at 08:41

My windows clients have now ran out of work on SoB, but I switched to Linux and got work.

Also I found an excellent stats site, hosted by a DPC member.

PhilthyPhil · 23 Sep 2012 at 10:23

Thats a very handy link, especially the points per position bit

hanluc · 27 Sep 2012 at 08:11

Correlizer has been removed from the vault, the quote is: "Deactivated until they get work units", we will gain 1500 pts on seti.USA because of this though they would be behind us anyway if the RC5 & OGR-27 stats were working properly.

j_Remos · 27 Sep 2012 at 09:16

Spotted that, and its very annoying

But then again it gives us a chance to sneak up on people without them quite knowing our true position... Sneaky Sneaky.

Looking at the stats on digik-oz there might be a few places to direct some effort coming up.

Biffa · 28 Sep 2012 at 16:36

Bit of a MW boost coming up today