[cdhostage]

Arg, jsut came back from the Hartford Symphony playing Handel's Messiah. Ithought it would be an absolutely angelic experience. i was bored out of my skull. Oh, well. My chorus teacher gives me half a point bonus on my final grade for every choral performance I go to and critique in an essay, so it's not a complete loss. Damn, gotta go write thatthis weekend...

Anyway, I recently finsihed my 250th work unit for SETI. It'l be another half-year before I get to the next level up, 500. I run OS 9.1 on my iMac 500. I tried to run Ubero but it's not working; apparently I need OS X (Java is apparently primitively done is OS 9). So, seeing as I'm not switching to OS X until January, I might as well set my computer to run something useful. Team MacNN always loves RC5 help, so here I am.

Will someone please guide me through setting up RC5 crunching?

[Scotttheking]

http://team.macnn.com/rc5install9.phtml

For the proxy, replace 'jaffacpas.dyndns.org' with 'rc5.macnn.com'.

--Scott

[cdhostage]

Glad somebody was awake and on the boards at 1:00 am.[/LIST]

[cdhostage]

Ok. I have completed one work unit. Took 10 hours and 6 seconds.

I ran the RC5 Benchmark. Got 114, 184 Keys per second. Is this about right for a 500 MHz G3 machine?

The walkthrough Scott directed me to told me that I have to wait for the program to return a workunit to join a team. It looks like when I finish this workunit, it will connect and I can join MacNN. 171 users soon.

[G4ME]

Make sure that you are only running RC5 not ORG or any others

[cdhostage]

I followed the steps exactly. I believe I am running only RC5.

[cdhostage]

Now, I've got Peek A Boo running here. Should I jack dnetc up to HIgh in Peek A Boo or should I fiddle with dnetc itself?

[chris v]

Originally posted by cdhostage:
<STRONG>Now, I've got Peek A Boo running here. Should I jack dnetc up to HIgh in Peek A Boo or should I fiddle with dnetc itself?</STRONG>

You can do both-- use Peek-a-boo to set theclient tohigh priority.

Set the Client on itself on priority 1 under 3) Peformance Related Options... if you don't want it to interfere with you at all, and it'll still churn out units pretty well. If the client is set to priority 0, (which might be the default) it really crawls. Your other programs won't take much of a hit until you crank the client up to 5 or so, but it doesn't add a whole lot of power, either, by my experience.

Double check your buffer update options and make sure 9) Load work Precedence reads DES=0,CSC=0,OGR=0,RC5

If you're going to let it run at night, or when you're not home, quit all your running apps, (I've found that the control strip can really hog CPU-- I think it's quck-time related) including the background processes with peek-a-boo, and set the prioriity to 9. Quit peek-a-boo, too since it loads the CPU and it's priority settings remain as preferences, even when the app is not running. This is when you'll get the best results.

You should get 3,000,000 keys per sec at best, but signifigantly less when you're running other apps.

CV

[ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: chris v ]

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by chris v:
<STRONG>You should get 3,000,000 keys per sec at best, but signifigantly less when you're running other apps.</STRONG>

Not on a G3 you won't.

[cdhostage]

3 million Good God. I was wondering if I was doing something wrong to get only 114 thou. Hmm. I could probably still speed this up a bit. I let my iMac run 24/7, so I don't have to start it up eac ht time I wanna use it. I don't think I'll close the Control Strip - it's too useful. I'll keep dnetc set at high priority in Peek A Boo. I won't fiddle with dnetc's internal prioti\ry settings.

[cdhostage]

Weird.

I jsut installed the new client.

My benchmark went up to 1,510,000 keys per second. Serious increase. A factor of ten, as it were.