Team Anadtech needs more crunchers for DPAD!

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: caferace

I concur. I'm running DPAD on eight PIII 868Mhz with 256Mb RAM boxes at the moment, all performing actual non-crunching work with no major slowdowns in responsiveness.

Try editing config.txt and set priority to 'L' and see if that helps?

cheers, and thanks for crunchin' DPAD.

edit: FWIW, RAM usage with DPAD wasn't very high until I started accumulating large results.dat files. On the boxen that have a lot of RAM I leave it as is. On the ones with limited RAM, I rename the file when it gets over 10Mb.

-jim

Hey Jim, you need to edit the 'config.txt' from "L" to "B"


Just FYI!

 

[caferace]

I run everything in B, except the boxes I don't use for general computing (idle except for crunching) in N. Is that not wise? What is the hardcore setting? I thought N was....

-jim

 

[petrusbroder]

... and here is a quick news update:

The recruitment thread has had 832 reads in the first 30 hours. the higest number of reads was in "Hot deals" (220), the lowest in "Software" and "Peripherals" (18 each). We will not see any effect until those who have joined have produced results --- and even then we will not know why they joined unless they post in some of our threads.
Lets hope that many more crunchers join ...

Now back to the interesting discussion on how to run DPAD ...

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: caferace
I run everything in B, except the boxes I don't use for general computing (idle except for crunching) in N. Is that not wise? What is the hardcore setting? I thought N was....

-jim

The difference between 'N' and 'B' is less than 1% IIRC. That is as long as the box isn't being used...

'N' is fine for the "crunch only" boxes!

BTW: You can always use the 'Task manager' to even set DPAD (Muon1.exe) to 'Realtime' priority.


Edit: Thank's for the update Peter!

 

[Amaroque]

BTW, I found something! Let's see what it does...

 

[Assimilator1]

Good to hear the recruiting threads up

Captain Howdy
Odd to hear about your DPAD problem ,have you doubled checked your config.txt to confirm that the priority is still B?

 

[Amaroque]

Check the sTAts today.

BTW: Where is Johan with the daily sTAts threads?

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: Amaroque
What happened to Starrider?

Come back please! We need your Incredible amount of power!

I'm not exactly sure who this is, but his average daily output was more than Amaroque, Cafarace, and Petrus combined... :Q

Edit: look at what he was producing!

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: Amaroque
Check the sTAts today.

BTW: Where is Johan with the daily sTAts threads?

Congrats to the great dump! That was great!

Originally posted by: Amaroque

Originally posted by: Amaroque
What happened to Starrider?

Come back please! We need your Incredible amount of power!

I'm not exactly sure who this is, but his average daily output was more than Amaroque, Cafarace, and Petrus combined... :Q

Edit: look at what he was producing!

Yeah, we miss him him a lot ... and the task of passing Free-DC gets much harder without Starrider!

 

[petrusbroder]

The recruitment thread gets quite a few reads ...

after 30 hours: _832 reads
after 52 hours: 1520 reads.

There are some returning crunchers in Folding@home
and at least one new cruncher in DPAD (to judge from the stats ... although I do not know if that cruncher joined due to the thread ...)

 

[Darkone]

this thread was the reason i joined.. only be about a couple of weeks, but i'll see what i can spit out for the cause...

 

[Darwin333]

Just found this thread today. I am going to be bringing about 10ghz online but I have a few questions.

1. I can bring another 10 ghz or so online from the PC?s at my office that are rarely used for more than word. Problem is the operators are the most computer illiterate people you could imagine. If they see anything in the taskbar they automatically think it?s a virus and remove it. Is there a way to make the program autostart on boot but not show up in the taskbar?
2. My 5 year old has a computer in her room (old Athy 1.8+) but its not connected to the net. How often does the program need to connect? I can throw an old wireless card into her pc but since I do NOT want her on the net I would have to turn to connect it manually.

 

[caferace]

Run muon1_background.exe and nothing will show in the taskbar. Putting a shortcut to that in Startup will start the app on boot.

Regarding offline use, no problem. In config.txt there is a setting: Auto-send results ([Y]es, [N]o): Y, which you can change to a N. Then, at your leisure you can either connect it to the 'net, or sneakernet the results.txt file to another box running DPAD (I believe) and uploiad them from there.

10Ghz would be most welcome!

-jim

 

[JonB]

Darwin, while you are editing the config.txt, be sure to set the Priority to "B" instead of "N" or those users will complain about slower printjobs. With the "B" setting, it truly becomes CPU friendly. I have several computers with no network connection at all and just use a flash drive to keep them updated.

 

[Assimilator1]

Hey guys ,remind me how to sneakernet DPAD again?
Thanks ,btw I'll be using a 1GB flashdrive

Originally posted by: Darkone
this thread was the reason i joined.. only be about a couple of weeks, but i'll see what i can spit out for the cause...

Hey good to see you back mate (I take it you missed my comments to you earlier? )

Darwin333
Welcome to TA DPAD

 

[Darwin333]

Thanks for the welcome.

I have 2 rigs online so far. My 2ghz P4 at the office and my core 2 duo @ 2ghz at home. I should get my 2600+ online and my daughters 1.8+ but it would be great if someone could explain what "sneakernet" is. I would load it on my wifes laptop but its rarely out of sleep mode and she doesn't keep it plugged in regularly enough to set it up otherwise.

I have another 1800+ I can throw together but man, its already hot as hell in my office at home

 

[petrusbroder]

Welcome to the TeAm, crunchers!

 

[JonB]

The way I sneakernet using a Flash drive is to keep a seperate DPAD folder on the drive for each PC. At least once a week, I'll visit the non-network computers and MOVE the "results.txt" file to the flash drive folder. You don't need to shut the client down, just move the file. There is a small possibility that it could try to write new results while moving, but it has never happened to me.

You could also periodically update the two files in the "samplefiles" folder. Just get them from a client that is normally connected and updating.

I also periodically erase the results.dat file when it gets big (greater than 5 or 10 meg). Others may not.

 

[caferace]

re: Sneaker-netting DPAD. I haven't actually tried this, but I'm making a series of semi-educated guesses.

1) On an off-net machine, when the results reach a reasonable amount (say +100k), move the results.txt file to an external storage device.
2) Now, in your "sneakers" take said device to an on-net device running DPAD.
3) On the on-net box, shut down any muon* service or executable.
4) Run the manualsend.bat file to upload any existing results.txt file.
5) When that is complete, the results.txt file on the on-net box will be removed.
6) Copy the off-net results.txt file to the DPAD directory on the on-net box.
7) Re-run the manualsend.bat file.
8) Restart the muon* services or executable on the on-net machine.

I think that should upload the off-net results to DPAD for scoring. Anyone tried this for sure, or have corrections to make?

-jim

 

[Silverthorne]

Welcome aboard new DPAD crunchers and nice job helping them out everyone.

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: Silverthorne
Welcome aboard new DPAD crunchers and nice job helping them out everyone.

Congrats on your monumental milestone, Silverthorne! 50MM!! :thumbsup:

-jim

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: caferace
re: Sneaker-netting DPAD. I haven't actually tried this, but I'm making a series of semi-educated guesses.

1) On an off-net machine, when the results reach a reasonable amount (say +100k), move the results.txt file to an external storage device.
2) Now, in your "sneakers" take said device to an on-net device running DPAD.
3) On the on-net box, shut down any muon* service or executable.
4) Run the manualsend.bat file to upload any existing results.txt file.
5) When that is complete, the results.txt file on the on-net box will be removed.
6) Copy the off-net results.txt file to the DPAD directory on the on-net box.
7) Re-run the manualsend.bat file.
8) Restart the muon* services or executable on the on-net machine.

I think that should upload the off-net results to DPAD for scoring. Anyone tried this for sure, or have corrections to make?

-jim

Yes, that will work. Just be careful not to send your results twice. You can also let your results get much larger than 100k. You could even dump thr offline results once a week if you wanted.

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: Amaroque
You can also let your results get much larger than 100k. You could even dump thr offline results once a week if you wanted.

Indeed. I did a mini-dump of 4 offline days on an 820D this morning of 2.6Mb. It didn't suck.

-jim

 

[Silverthorne]

Originally posted by: caferace

Originally posted by: Silverthorne
Welcome aboard new DPAD crunchers and nice job helping them out everyone.

Congrats on your monumental milestone, Silverthorne! 50MM!! :thumbsup:

-jim

Thanks

 

[petrusbroder]

On a different note:

DPAD has 6 new crunchers producing and one or two returning ones (not quite sure ...)!

Welcome! Sphexi, MxChris, nefariouscaine, Darwin333, Geldor1, null pointer us and darkone! :thumbsup: