Little Herd that needs some optimizing.

[Untamo]

New to Team Anandtech and I've got these up and running 24/7

Dual Xeon 450/2MB 512MB RAM [Soon to be Quad]
Dual Pentium PRO 200Mhz
PIII 700 @ 868Mhz
PIII 500 @ 667Mhz
PII 400
PII 400
PII 400

They've been running the last 11 days, and I've heard a lot of terms here from flushing to setting a fixed work unit I believe.

I've got these running RC5 ONLY. And I want them running at thier best. Period.

PS. This stuff is suprisingly addictive.

 

[Untamo]

*Note* My Computer rooms is waaaaay warmer than before, but hey, it's winter, I'm saving on heating bill right?

 

[dvch]

Untamo: basically you want as few things running on them as possible to get your best keyrate. Especially no 3D screen savers or software cpu coolers.

I always setup machines to request size 33 packets and my buff-in to a number divisble by 32. When the above works it puts less stress on the proxy you are using.

 

[Russ]

Untamo,

NICE herd! Welcome to TA. Are these connected 24/7? If so, you would set your threshholds lower than if they were online sporadically.

Are they networked? If they are, you might want to consider setting up a pproxy on one machine, so that the herd fetches and flushes from it. Then map the other machines to it, and have only it connected to the keyserver. That way, you can control your blocks from a single machine.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Untamo]

<< NICE herd! Welcome to TA. Are these connected 24/7? >>



Yup, as the first post says, it's all up 24/7. I have nothing running on the machines at the moment, other than cracking. One's my FTP server, one's my whatever-the-hell-I-want server. In any event, I've got them all networked 100MB switch, on DSL line. They're all just set to defaults with the exception of RC5 being the only thing they're doing.

This flushing &amp; proxy stuff is strange to me at the moment, in relation to this. I can manually set each of them for thier packet size, and/or set up ONE machine as the proxy, and have it inherit all the settings from there?