RC5 newbie question(s)

[CADsortaGUY]

Sorry Seti folks - move along....nothing to see here

I have a celeron 700 that absolutely SUCKS ate SETI so I've decided to run RC5 on it. I'm pretty sure everything is setup correctly but what is this "packet size" stuff? Should I change it from default (-1) and switch it to 33? How does that affect things? I read the FAQs but it didn't seem to address that, it only showed how to change it.


Thanks,

CADkindaGUY

FYI, I'll make sure that mysterymachine420@hotmail.com(<--ME[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]) TeAm tommorow since I just installed it

 

[bot2600]

I have been doing RC5 for along time and have never changed it. but then again, I am pretty lazy and stuff....

Bot

 

[Fingers]

It just makes more work in a single instead of multiple packets. From my experience you don't even get those big packets because there are such a limited #. It doesn't really affect anything in my experience.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

OK - cool

I was just curious.

One more thing since I may have some attention
now remember I'M A NEWBIE

3 packets (10 WUs) in buff-in
2 packets (16 WUs) in buff-out

WTF is that?

How do I know how many WUs or packets I've crunched? Which is for stats: WUs or Packets? Why would a "Packet" contain more WUs than another?

Maybe I'm just that I'm dumb or something but it is all so new that it is rather confusing

CADkindaGUY

 

[SpaceWalker]

one packet can have anything from 1 to 33 work units...

all packets start out 33 units in size, but the DNET proxies break them up to meet the demand of Personal proxies and user clients.

think of them as coins (as in US coins), 1 coin can be 1 cent or it can be 25 cents.

for a system that does nothing but run RC5 in a corner, it is best to get packets that are 33 units in size, some people with slower systems, set it to smaller packets to give the CPU more breaks between packets.

If you live it alone, the packets will range in size depending on the next packet available from the proxy..

Hope this helps some...

P.S. The stats go by total units..

 

[CADsortaGUY]

So they count WUs not Packets then? - cool

Thanks
CADkindaGUY