[sideus]

Hi all. Just to let you all know, I have joined Team MacNN. I am running a G4 400MHz OS 10.1.2. So far, if I am reading it correctly, I'm pumping out 3,000+ keys/sec. Good to join you.

Thanks!

[slipjack]

Originally posted by sideus:
<STRONG>Hi all. Just to let you all know, I have joined Team MacNN. I am running a G4 400MHz OS 10.1.2. So far, if I am reading it correctly, I'm pumping out 3,000+ keys/sec. Good to join you.

Thanks!</STRONG>

Welcome! MacNN keeps on growing, it's great to have ya. I bet that a G4 400 does better than 3 thousand keyes... probably 3 more like 3 million keys.

[sideus]

Aww, gotcha. Read it wrong. Hehe. 3,156,133 keys/sec.

[sideus]

Just for the fun of it, I fired up RC5 on my Pentium 4 1.7GHz machine. It is getting about 600,000 to 1 million keys LESS than my 400MHz G4. Is that right? That is freaking insane.

[ 02-19-2002: Message edited by: sideus ]

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by sideus:
<STRONG>Just for the fun of it, I fired up RC5 on my Pentium 4 1.7GHz machine. It is getting about 600,000 to 1 million keys LESS than my 400MHz G4. Is that right? That is freaking insane.

[ 02-19-2002: Message edited by: sideus ]</STRONG>

RC5 really sucks on a P4.
Run ubero on it, as ubero performs decently on a P4.

[Bockie]

Welcome Aboard! Keep crunching and watch your march through the ranks!

[sideus]

Can someone enlighten me about what means what on the RC5 stat page? Whats blocks tested vs. keys/sec mean? I'm somewhat confused. For instance, it says I have a sustained rate of 4,086 KKeys/sec. But, my overall rate is 221 KKeys/sec? 221 is a lot less than 4,986.

[reader50]

1 Key = one 64-bit combination that might unlock the encoded message.
1 WU = ~268 million keys

The "total blocks checked" means how many work units you have crunched since you started RC5.

The 221 Kk/sec "overall rate" is kind of useless. They took the total keys you have crunched, and divided by how long you have been with RC5. If you took a six month vacation from RC5 before coming back to it, that dead time will be included in figuring your overall rate.

The 4,086 Kk per sec was your rate yesterday, much more useful.

On the dnetc stats pages, "Blocks" means "Work Units". However, the "blocks" you see in your client window are a bit different, and as of the latest client version, the client calls work units as "stats units".

[Grozni Majmun]

I have been puzzled by this too: My "yesterday's rate" is always much lower than the one shown in the application window. Shouldn't those two be the same?

Originally posted by reader50:
<STRONG>1 Key = one 64-bit combination that might unlock the encoded message.
1 WU = ~268 million keys

The "total blocks checked" means how many work units you have crunched since you started RC5.

The 221 Kk/sec "overall rate" is kind of useless. They took the total keys you have crunched, and divided by how long you have been with RC5. If you took a six month vacation from RC5 before coming back to it, that dead time will be included in figuring your overall rate.

The 4,086 Kk per sec was your rate yesterday, much more useful.

On the dnetc stats pages, "Blocks" means "Work Units". However, the "blocks" you see in your client window are a bit different, and as of the latest client version, the client calls work units as "stats units".</STRONG>

[sideus]

Ok, cool. Thanks for the info.

Originally posted by reader50:
<STRONG>1 Key = one 64-bit combination that might unlock the encoded message.
1 WU = ~268 million keys

The "total blocks checked" means how many work units you have crunched since you started RC5.

The 221 Kk/sec "overall rate" is kind of useless. They took the total keys you have crunched, and divided by how long you have been with RC5. If you took a six month vacation from RC5 before coming back to it, that dead time will be included in figuring your overall rate.

The 4,086 Kk per sec was your rate yesterday, much more useful.

On the dnetc stats pages, "Blocks" means "Work Units". However, the "blocks" you see in your client window are a bit different, and as of the latest client version, the client calls work units as "stats units".</STRONG>

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by Bockie:
<STRONG>Welcome Aboard! Keep crunching and watch your march through the ranks! </STRONG>

No, I run dnetc on a few G3 and I get about 3 mkeys/sec on a good day. Each G3 of mine does around 1 - 1.4 mkeys/sec depending on what else is running and how long I run the program.

About the marching through the rankings, I move up about 150 - 300 spots every day. My ranking is now at around 50,000.. I remember being way up in the 100,000s...

[sideus]

Here is what I'm running.

RC5:
G4 400MHz - 3.2 Million keys/sec
Celeron 366 - 1 Million keys/sec
Total: 4.2 Million keys/sec

SETI:
Pentium 4 1.7GHz 4 Hours a W/U

I was running RC5 on the P4, but it ran like crap. Was getting around 2.4 million keys/sec. So I switched it back to SETI since I knew it kicked butt at that.