SoB: Just had an idea for those on dialup...

[Confused]

...who have problems with running out of work if the client finishes and can't connect. Use the Service installer provided by Mathguy, and set the number of processes to 2, by using the switch sobsvc -p:2.

This will load 2 copies of the client, and work on 2 different numbers at once, and therefore if one block finishes and it can't connect to the net, then the next will have full attention of the processor, instead of 1/2. Your overall rate will be the same, but you will be working on 2 blocks at once, and if one finishes, you won't go idle.


Just had that thought earlier, for some strange reason, but it should work for those on dialup and it doesn't always finish when you're online 🙂



Garry

 

[winr]

Hey, thanks Confused.
I will try that on my Moms machine.


🙂

 

[ProviaFan]

That's something I could try... if it still takes a similar amount of time per WU as it did when I tried it many months ago, that would keep the remote 766MHz Celeron busy for about a whole week (which is good). Just a quick question, now: will it send automatically when a network connection is available, or will I need to stop the service and run some command to get it to send? Also, is there some monitoring program for when it's run as a service (something that for SoB is like KDFold for DF, F@H, etc.)? Thanks. 🙂

 

[Confused]

if it still takes a similar amount of time per WU as it did when I tried it many months ago, that would keep the remote 766MHz Celeron busy for about a whole week (which is good)

Each k/n pair will take a different amount of time, I guess it'll be a case of seeing how it does on the computer, I'm sorry can't give you a definitive number! Other than that my 2.1GHz Athlon XP does about 320k cEMs/sec, and it takes about 13 mins to do an intermediate block on the current test it's doing.

Just a quick question, now: will it send automatically when a network connection is available, or will I need to stop the service and run some command to get it to send?

The default when you install the client is for it to try to connect every 1200 seconds (20 mins) and for an infinite number of attempts. If it detects a network connection, then it'll talk to the server. You could change these numbers to 120 seconds for retry, and 1 for the retry attempts, then once it's finished a block, it'll try to connect, wait 2 mins, and try again. If still no connection, then it will stop retrying until the next intermediate block is finished.

Also, is there some monitoring program for when it's run as a service (something that for SoB is like KDFold for DF, F@H, etc.)?

You can set it to run in the system tray, so you still have the icons if you wish 🙂


Garry

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Confused
You can set it to run in the system tray, so you still have the icons if you wish 🙂

But will it run with nobody logged in that way?

 

[Confused]

Yeah, it will still run with no-one logged on, but you can tell it to make the icons show when logging on by using sobsvc -k.

I use the following (and will explain it all too 🙂):

sobsvc -k (force a service restart whenever the TaskBar is created (i.e. when a user logs on), to always show icon)
sobsvc -r:200 (restart the clients at 2am)
sobsvc -s (restart service if it appears a client is stalled (using 0% cpu for an extended period of time)
sobsvc -x (true idle)
sobsvc -m (monitors if the clients are closed and opens them again)

Garry

 

[Baldy18]

^^^He's a wiz at this stuff.😎

 

[deerslayer]

Soooo.....I'm using the service installer, with none of those cute little options up there.....but I should probably be running it as....

sobsvc -k -s -x -m ?????

Where do I type that stuff in at?

 

[Confused]

Go to a command prompt, and go to the SB directory. You have to run each switch seperately, not all together 🙂

Once you've changed the options, (re)start the service: net restart "Seventeen or Bust Service"


Garry

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: Confused
Go to a command prompt, and go to the SB directory. You have to run each switch seperately, not all together 🙂

Once you've changed the options, (re)start the service: net restart "Seventeen or Bust Service"


Garry

Well arnt you a clever richard 😉


😛

 

[deerslayer]

so once I do it once, it always stays that way?

I figured the parameters had to be set every time the service was run 😱

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: LyNx01
so once I do it once, it always stays that way?

I figured the parameters had to be set every time the service was run 😱

Yup, just set the paramaters once, then it will use those paramaters all the time 🙂


Garry

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: Confused

Originally posted by: LyNx01
so once I do it once, it always stays that way?

I figured the parameters had to be set every time the service was run 😱

Yup, just set the paramaters once, then it will use those paramaters all the time 🙂


Garry

Wonderful!