SoB on multicore system

[Knavish]

I guess I must have missed something obvious, but...

How do you setup 17 or Bust on a multicore Win XP / Vista system? It looks like SoB stores which work unit you're processing & the status of that work unit in a registry key. If I have two SoB clients running, they'll each download and run a separate work unit, but they use the SAME registry key. If I then restart the machine, the registry only remembers the last work unit i downloaded. The first work unit is then lost...

Is there a way to run multiple SoB clients in windows that allows me to reboot the computer without losing my progress?

Thanks,
Knavish

 

[RaySun2Be]

Install SOB as a service.

go to the command line, navigate to the SB folder, then type:

SOBSVC -I

this will install SOB as a service.

Then I run:

SOBSVC -P:x

Where x = the # of processors to be used for SOB.

You will need to start the SOB service afterwards.

Go to Start, Run, type in services.msc
and press ENTER

In the list of services, find the Seventeen or Bust service, right click on it and chose Start.

You must have installed the normal SOB client configured it with your id and connected to the SOB server for some work first.

To uninstall, reverse the process. Stop the service, go to a command line, navigate to the SB directory, and type:

SOBSVC -U

But who would want to do that?



I have successfully run this (briefly ) on a quad core quad processor system

 

[Knavish]

Cool. Thanks! I'll get a few extra work units done this weekend with a couple of dual Core2-2.6 laptops that I've got temporarily.

 

[RaySun2Be]