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POLL: Continue crunchin or ?

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NokiaDude

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I've been running RC5-72 for quite a while now and I was pondering last night. RC5-72 looks like it'll take ~1700 years to complete. I have two computers crunchin for RC5-72, a Spitfire Athlon 900mhz and a XP 1700+. Right now, I'm placing #120 on the team and slooooly climbing. Since I download anime I have to keep my computer on anyways. But I'm wondering if I should quit crunchin. Because some times when I use my computer it'll have 10-15 apps open and that's a huge strain on resources. So the computer bogs down. But as soon as I quit crunchin everything comes back to speed. So I'm letting you decide if I should keep crunching
 
The choice is all yours.
If it slows down apps, I would change projects. F@H, CB, SoB, they seem to have proper 'idle' CPU time. But I have never tried RC5-72... so I can not be quick to judge that it does not properly compute 😕.
But as I said the choice is yours.
 
I believe that the dnet rc5-72 is the most well behaved client and is set at the absolute minimun so it should really only use your idel cpu cycles. sob is set to a slightly higher priority unless you do something with the service installer and set the priority lower with it. chess brain seems to use a lot of cpu when it is active.

These are just my observations from what I've read in other threads and from my personal observations by running a couple dc projects at the same time and also having coolmon running so I can track what is using most of my cpu cycles.
 
If it makes a difference shut it down when you are working at your PC.
Personally I haven't experienced any noticable slowdown due to dnetc on my systems.

At the moment dnetc.exe uses 3.9 MB ram on my system - this could probably make a difference on a low-memory machine.

By the way, as far as I know the rc5-64 project was also projected to finish "in a zillion years" when it was started.
Faster computers and dnetc core improvements will bring the number of year to finish down to a reasonable level I'm sure.

-Andreas
 
If you can just shut down the client (edited: just when you're doing a lot of multitasking, of course 🙂) or configure it to a lower priority, by all means keep crunching if you truly are happy with the goals of the RC5-72 project. If you feel like switching, I'm sure many projects would be glad to use your cycles, but please don't feel like anyone's trying to "recruit" you (at least I'm not).
 
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