How often should I connect while cracking rc5?

[Tetsuo316]

I downloaded the default floppy client for a dial-up connection from the borg's website, and I want to know how often I should connect this computer to the internet so it can download new blocks? It's a Celeron 400 @ 500 with 128MB of RAM. How fast will that eat through the buffer?

 

[BurntKooshie]

Well, if its on 24/7, and with no usage, it'll do 450 blocks per day. Multiply that by however many days it will be until you can next refill its buffer....

FWIW, RC5 only needs 1-2mb of ram, and fits entirely inside the L1 cache of any current CPU, so the size/speed of RAM doesn't matter 🙂

 

[dennilfloss]

Try to manually update your buffers twice a week just in case the automatic flush/fetch does not get triggered. I have seen this happen with some firewall+dsl combos. For the record, I have a 56k connection and ZoneAlarm causes no problem whatsoever, yet I still have increased my Borg buffer size to 3000 for my Celeron 500. I just don't want to do the DPC any favour, including cracking random blocks.

 

[Tetsuo316]

all right, here's another silly question: how can i check to see how many blocks it's done if i'm running the client hidden?

 

[Choralone]

Have the client create a log file then check that every now and then. It's how I keep track of 3 three machine in my herd. 🙂

 

[Tetsuo316]

ok, i've checked the faq at www.teamanandtech.com and couldn't find the answer, so i'm a postin' it here.

how do you get the client to show up if you're running it hidden? everyone keeps telling me to open up the configuration thing, but every time i double-click on the client it just hides itself.

 

[sciencewhiz]

You have to run the client with the -config switch. for example

go to run, type "c:\program files\distributed.net\dnetc.exe" -config

 

[Tetsuo316]

Thank you, sciencewhiz.

Now, is the log file generated in the rc5 directory? I set it to the FIFO setting and specified 100k for the file size, but I guess it hasn't been created yet. Do I need to restart first?

 

[Ken g6]

Unless you selected the option to automatically restart on .ini change, yes. Just run "c:\program files\distributed.net\dnetc.exe" -restart.

Edit: Yes, you need to restart the client; no, you don't need to restart the machine! 🙂

But depending on the size of your packets, it could take awhile for anything to get in the log file.

 

[Tetsuo316]

i was retarded. i specified using a log, but i didn't specify a log file name, so it reverted back to not using a log. all is well now. thanks for the help guys. i changed the amount of time to 72 hours between connections, so that way i only have to check up on it every 3 days give or take.