rc5 config question - best config for the scenario?

[Dee67]

I'm going to be sending my niece a system for her birthday, have no clue how I should setup the client - here's why:

I've only set it up on my machines before which are on my network here at home - so I have like no idea which options do what, mine just do what they do and that's that unless I throw a fetch-workunit-threshold in for a while.

I know to put a:
[buffers]
checkpoint-filename=cp.rc5

[rc5]
preferred-blocksize=33

in there, but her 'case' will be very different from mine and I'll probably never see the machine again (she's FAR) 😀 Here's the projected usage of the machine based on the past:

AOL use only, chat - roughly 10-12 hours a day, then shut down with no set hours. So one day she might chat from 1pm-3am, next day 2pm-11pm - there's no real pattern I see to configure to.

ANY/ALL suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks 🙂

 

[ViRGE]

I'd reccomend that you store 48 hours worth of blocks(and OGR stubs), using the speed calculator at http://www.teamanandtech.com/speed.asp if you need to. Also, use the latest Dnet pre-release client(The last official client doesn't owrk with AOL 100%), and set it to watch all interfaces(Use a *). Lastly, set the project priority to RC5,OGR, and advanced bffer level checking to 4, that way it'll start OGR when RC5 ends.

 

[Dee67]

Thanks for the response Virge, I appreciate it.. a lot 🙂

any chance you (or anyone for that matter) could English-ify that a tad? 😉

 

[Dee67]

bump-er cars 😉

 

[IJump]

How fast is the computer? If it is a P3-700, set

[rc5]
preferred-blocksize=33
fetch-workunit-threshold=700

The 'fetch-workunit-threshold' can be set to about the same as the speed of your processor for just over 2 days worth of blocks (genereally speaking) for a P2, P3, Celeron, etc.

If it is AMD product, add another 100 or so to the processor speed.