ogr and rc5 really slow

[cptnwinky]

ok, maybe someone can help me with this. i have a k6-2 400 with 24 megs of useable RAM(8 shared with video) and a k6-2 500 with 128 megs or RAM. they are both running rc5/ogr. question 1: what is the difference between rc5 and ogr? question 2: is it normal to run this slow(1 packet in about 12 hours or so)? can i make it run any faster? question 3: why does the k6-2 400 run faster than the k6-2 500 with a fraction of the RAM? thanks in advance for the help

 

[Polo]

Go to the team web site to check the speed of your computers.

 

[vss1980]

RC5: A brute force attempt to decypher an encrypted code/message.
OGR: A project to find the optimal goulomb ruler (in other words: a ruler where no two marks are the same distance)

OGR packets (WU's) can take a very long time to be processed (I have seen a PII-400 take over 1 day straight to finish 1 WU in OGR) as they all vary in complexity - RC5 packets dont suffer from this and usually take a set amount of time to be completed as these are set around a more rigid structure.

Are you sure the slower machine is running faster. If you are judging the speed based on OGR packets, you may be very mistaken. The easiest way to check the speed is to open up the client (ie. un-minimise it) and then right-click on the client background window and select benchmark -> RC5 long and OGR long. Do this on each machine and if the slower one still comes out on top then you have a problem somewhere.

RAM has nothing to do with the speed of a client, UNLESS the computer in question has a very small amount of RAM.

 

[ViRGE]

vss1980 is definately right in that there's a lot of way to interpet this. First, you need to make sure your clients are doing RC5 or OGR. If it's OGR, just check their average rate, since every OGR WU varies. If it's RC5, then check the packet size; the larger the packet, the longer it will take(but the more WUs worth of credit you'll get).

 

[cptnwinky]

thanks for the help guys since i'm so new at this distributed stuff, is it possible to change whether you are cracking rc5 or ogr? or does it just only do both? thanks

 

[TwoFace]

cptnwinky: First of all welcome to the TeAm!

Yes you can change between OGR and RC5... just configure your client with the project you want to run first in the work order...

from the dnetc.ini:

[misc]
project-priority=DES,CSC,OGR,RC5

That's the default... this way it'll do OGR... if you change it to be:

[misc]
project-priority=DES,CSC,RC5,OGR

It should do RC5, but still have buffers in backup if you run out of RC5 blocks...

You can also disable one of the projects like this:

[misc]
project-priority=DES,CSC,RC5,OGR=0

With this line you'll have disbled OGR... and you can ofcourse do the same for RC5!

If you edit the dnetc.ini you'll have to restart the client to load the new .ini...

Hope this helps some!

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[ViRGE]

Actually, try reading the last part of http://www.teamanandtech.com/faqs/dnet/beginner/rc5_only.asp, TF's method might cause problems later on.

 

[cptnwinky]

thanks for all the help guys. now i have my screwed on a little straighter with this stuff