P2 266 faster than P3 550E@800 on RC5?

[pX]

This has me stumped, I just started running RC5 on my computer at home and the one at my office. At home I have a 550E @800, while at work I have an older P2 266. The 266 seems to be doing the blocks a helluva lot faster, whats up with that? Any ideas? I know this is a broad question, but I really am not to keen on the RC5 stuff yet.

thanks

 

[TwoFace]

Hey pX, welcome to the TeAm 😎

You've probably fallen "victim" to the fact that DNet sends out packets of work, all are some multiplier of 2^28, ie the smallest package available is 1*2^28, and the biggest currently available is 32*2^28, as you can see there's a lot of difference. Check the keyrate reported after a packet has finished, it'll be something like 2.2MKey/s for that 800MHz machine, and below 800KKey/s for the 266 if I'm not very much mistaken 😉

If the 266 one has a higher keyrate then something is wrong with your setup on the 800MHz machine, don't worry tho' we can help 🙂

Let us know what you find

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[tontod]

if you have screensavers running, make sure they're set to blank, and turn off any unnecessary programs running in the background. If you have findfast running, disable that, it can take up valuable resources.

 

[pX]

yeah its running ~740KKeys here at work, will check in just a bit at home during lunch... one more problem, when I try to flush or fetch I get this:
Network::failed to resolve name "proxy.teamanandtech.com"

Firewall at work perhaps? Anyway to get around this, perhaps using the IP address instead?

 

[TwoFace]

At the moment it seems like proxy.teamanandtech.com is down 🙁

Try again in a little while so the RR get's to a proxy that is up... it must be a crash on the one that is on rotation at the moment...

If that doesn't work try proxy80.teamanandtech.com or proxy23.teamanandtech.com as those are pproxies that listen on other ports than the defualt 2064, remember to set your client to use the correct port tho' 😉

Hope it works,

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[pX]

thanks again,,... at home, it says 20Mkeys/sec. maybe its off by an order of 10 or something.... thanks a lot man.

 

[pX]

damn, those proxies are working at home. not here. something isnt right, any ideas?

 

[TwoFace]

Sounds like you might have a firewall issue 🙁 neither port 80 or port 23 was open?

and you used it like this:

[networking]
nofallback=true
autofindkeyserver=no
keyserver=proxy80.teamanandtech.com:80

or this:

[networking]
nofallback=true
autofindkeyserver=no
keyserver=proxy23.teamananadtech.com:23

?

You have to specify the port you want to use too...

If that doesn't help you've got the ports closed 🙁

You can still get it crackin' tho' but it'll involve a little more work, ie sneakernetting. That means getting the blocks through email, or carrying them on a floppy.

Let us know if it works

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[RaySun2Be]

Also, there are at times DNS issues with firewalls, you can try using the IP address instead of the DNS name. I have to do that at work on port 80 in order to get through the firewall.

Another thing to check at work is if you are using a proxy server. If you have an Internet connection, go into your Internet Browser's Connection settings, and see if it specifies a proxy server.

If it does, under the [NETWORK] parms of the DNETC.INI file, add:

[networking]
keyserver=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80
firewall-type=http
firewall-host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80
disabled=no
nofallback=false
autofindkeyserver=no


where the xxx.xxx..... is the keyserver IP address or DNS name for the keyserver= parm, and the xxx.xxx.... is the IP address or DNS name of the proxy server taken from the browser connection. the :80 specifies the port used.

 

[pX]

entering the proxy in did it... thanks!

 

[dmcowen674]

Also check to see what FPU the RC5 client autodetect set your CPU for. It may have set your PIII to regular Pentium instead of Pentium Pro/PII. You get 30% increase in speed if it's using the Pentium Pro/PII setting. It always sets the AMD's on regular Pentium. Once I change it to Pentium Pro the keyrate skyrockets.

Dave

 

[theanimala]

How do you set that?