[Don Briggs]

Hey all!
I'm the newest member of your team

I just thought I'd post a few comments and questions about RC5 and OSX

First of all, if you didn't know, you can speed up rc5 dramatically by running it in OSX's console mode... (i.e. using ">console" as a login name)
On my G4 466 I pass from 3.4 MKeys/sec to 4.3 MKeys/sec...
So when you head for bed, or work, or both (?), you can increase your score

On the flip side of this... does any one know how to get that increased performance _without_ logging out? :/

Second of all, you guys really don't advertise enough I only heard of RC5 + Team macNN five days ago... If you wanna win that race, you've gotta recruit more readers Let the Mac community know about this significant race (perhaps through a weekly report on the main macNN page?)

What would windoze users think if they saw a mac team at the head of the RC5 race?

Well... that's about it for now... Looking forward to getting my 1000$ check

tych0

[Don Briggs]

Geez I use FAR too many smilies...

tych-

[SkiBikeSki]

I'm not sure if your speed up is accurate. By that I mean it might not work on all machines. The typical score for a 466 is 4.1MK/s. I think there might be something wrond with your OSX, if your getting 3.4MK/s. Anyways, thanks for the tip.

Originally posted by tych0:
<STRONG>Second of all, you guys really don't advertise enough I only heard of RC5 + Team macNN five days ago... If you wanna win that race, you've gotta recruit more readers Let the Mac community know about this significant race (perhaps through a weekly report on the main macNN page?)

What would windoze users think if they saw a mac team at the head of the RC5 race?
tych0</STRONG>

We will be advertising more. You only heard about us 5 days ago because we launched our new website 5 days ago

[chris v]

Welcome tychO! Membership has definitely begun to swell since the website came up-- pretty cool.

Speaking of the RC5 in OS10.1, I'm new to the CLI, and have it up and running, but have questions.

Can you not pause, change settings or quit from the terminal window once the client is running? It' doesn't seem to respond to any of the listed commands once it's been started. I've go to open Proccess Viewer, kill RC5, the go back to the terminal, and start over.

Or is it just me? Besides, I'm still getting 3.95 Mkeys (max, anyway, while I'm sleeping) a sec. running the old client in Classic-- so what's the point of the terminal?

CV

[Earth Mk. II]

ok, for running RC5 on OSX... a few tips:
(All commands assume that you are in the same directory as the Distributed.net client program)

You can put the client into 'quiet mode' 2 ways:
(useful as it will let you quit the terminal and persist across logins and logouts.)

1) through the prefs (<font face = "courier">./dnetc -config</font>)
- go to General Client Options (option 1 from the main config screen)
- Option 10 ("Disable all screen output?") is the one you want. make sure it says "yes".

2) OR you can put it into quiet mode by running <font face = "courier">./dnetc -quiet</font>

your choice, but #1 will save you time in the future (just run <font face = "courier">./dnetc</font> and it will automagically go into the backround).

to shut the client down:
(why would you ever want to do that?!? )

- It's simple... just type "<font face = "courier">./dnetc -shutdown</font>" and it will shutdown your client.

Also, you can make a startup item so the client will launch at startup (as a process owned by <font face = "courier">root</font> though, so you'll need to use <font face = "courier">sudo</font> to shut it down).

Hope these tips help... Happy crunching!

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BTW, my Dual G4 450 usually averages about 6 Mkeys/s if I leave the client on all day with the GUI up. If I drop the GUI ("&gt;console" in the login screen) I can get about 8 Mkeys/s if it's down for the whole day.

[zac4mac]

Welcome, tychO

You the same one that helped get my duallie up to 550 MHz last year at Mike's site?
She's rock solid and haulin' butt.
We like crunching RC5 here.
I'm back to running in OS 9.2, since I came home to find a kernel panic in OS X last week.

Zack

[l008com]

Hey, where can i find ou how to speed up my dual 533 a few MHz, i can always use the extra RC5 blocks.
And can we have some detial on how to make dnet a startup item?
You know, it seems to me, that apple could have kept things like startup items folder, without loosing any of the stability of unix, jsut make the folder, and have it be checked at startup, they didn't have to make it quiet so different, oh well.

[Scotttheking]

Check out the team website, optimization instructions for RC5.
It has the instructions for running it at bootup

[cheerios]

Hey y'all! Well, all I have to contribute is the spare cycles on my Celeron, but those are yours, and gladly! Plus, yes, I'll admit it, the cow is cute! I'm not sure if I can explain it to her, but I think I'm gonna try to get my roommate to put it on her mostly idle 1.2G P4... I can attach that to my e-mail, right? Ah well, just waitin' for the prize money that'll buy me my mac!