Does anyone experience EXTREMELY high cpu usage with capacity calibration agent software?

[rc5]

I'm talking about a 100% usage of all idling cpu time after it starts a test and the cpu usage keeps 100% afterward. This hurts my rc5 keyrate dramatically.

In their FAQs, they stated this agent software didn't do any processing on our machines. But the reality seems different, is that a run-away code bug or is it processing something with our iding cpu times? I'm considering to remove this software from my pc because this seems another password cracker in my eyes.

By the way, I haven't seen the $10 activation promotion credited to either my paypal account or my capcal account, does anybody know why? I wrote them a email earlier today and nobody replied.

month 6
year 2001
Agent ID Number 526
Email xxxx@xxx.com
Registered On 6/13/2001 3:05:43 AM
Last Check-in 6/27/2001 12:56:50 PM
Days On For 10 Hours 7
Test Hours 3.41
Dollars Earned $ 1.023

I only wish I can be $10(activition)+ $10 =$20 richer the end of this month, is that asking for too much? huh...

 

[Sukhoi]

Could the CPU usage be from the NIC if it's under really heavy use?

 

[rc5]

No. It takes 100% idling cpu time even if there's no internet traffic at all. All CPU time is consumed by DisComTaskBar.exe process. Only wish that's a run-away bug in their java code. I will be really pissed off if they are using this to crack another password without our knowledge.

Can anybody familar with debuggers take a close look what this program is calculating?

 

[rc5]

Geez, I don't know to badmouth capcal. But look what I found in google:

Search Result 11
From: Randy (randy@capcal.com)
Subject: CRACK FOR PASSWORD-PROTECTED WORD FILES
Newsgroups: alt.cracks
(This is the only article in this thread)
Date: 2001-04-03 16:56:16 PST

anyone know how to do this???


A guy in capcal asked for how to crack a password-protected word file. Is that possible that they are using us to crack the passwords?

 

[Train]

i think you might be looking at the wrong # on the capcal interface, mine spikes to 5% every now and then but is usually zero. Overall CPU seconds after about 10 straight days is 1010 seconds, thats only 17 minutes, out of 10 days thats a tenth of a percent, doesnt seem to be very CPU intensive to me.

 

[rc5]

It costs near zero CPU time at the beginning. Then after the agent starts testing a few times, the cpu usage keeps 100%. I rebooted my win2k several times and it always show the save behavior.

Anyway, task manager under win2k shows more than 20 hours cpu usage in about two days, that can't be wrong.

 

[Jator]

I'm not too happy with the client. I've had it on for over 10 days, but they say I've opnly had it on for 5 days of 10 hours per day. And tonight Internet was really slow. Not sure if it was the client sucking the bandwith or not.

Jay

 

[kmmatney]

The client has amazing sucking power on my bandwidth, even when not supposedly testing. I finally uninstalled the client. Good riddance. Not worth the $3 is was set to earn.

 

[KifArU]

Thijs,
When I had a problem with the client and ZoneAlarm, I got this response from capcal:

Windows 2000 runs the Agent very well. Usually, high CPU useage is a sign
that the Agent is not connecting to the Internet for some reason. Make sure
that you allow the Agent to act as a server with Zone Alarm. Also, port add
port 8081 to be opened. Let's see if that works, because the Agent is not
connecting to our main controller.

Thank you,

Greg Purnell
CapCal?
3605 Steck Ave., Suite 1016
Austin, Texas 78759
(512) 795-0599


Since then I e-mailed him a few more times and every e-mail was answered within 1 working day.

Thijs

 

[rc5]

That's weird. I'm not running firewall in my win2k box. Why couldn't the agent connect to the interest?

 

[Sukhoi]

Do you have a router?

 

[rc5]

No router, I'm connecting to the internet directly by raspppoe for win2k, a DSL line.

 

[Train]

My Win2k task manager reports the same amount of CPU usage as the client, now at 18 minutes for 11 or so days.