[OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance
Two things here. First, the optimum setup for occasional ppp links. ( I
find that option 6=1 doesn't slow even ncurses stuff down noticeably and
gives much faster performance. Second, syslogd on my system has been
going crazy since I started running this thing. I am wondering why? A ps
-ax output appears after the config info below.
On advice from (I think) the original RC5 mentioner, I have used the
following settings:
CLIENT CONFIG MENU
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1) Email to report as [default:rc5@distributed.net] ==>
linux@linuxnet.org
2) Blocks to Buffer [default:5] ==> 100
3) Blocks to complete in run [default:0] ==> 0
4) Hours to complete in a run [default:0] ==> 0
5) Keys per timeslice - for Macs etc [default:65536] ==> 65536
6) Level of niceness to run at [default:0] ==> 1
7) File to log to [default:] ==> ~/rm_log
8) Network communication mode [default:1] ==> 1
14) Optimize performance for CPU type [default:-1] ==> 0
0) Quit and Save
And here is what syslog has been doing:
94 ? R 1040:34 /sbin/syslogd
2396 2 R N 340:30 rc5v2
Note that rc5v2 has been restarted a couple times, so it isn't actually
that bad a ratio of cpu time, but syslogd is getting about 60% of the cpu,
according to top.
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I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And
mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg.
-- Thorin Oakenshield
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> I just installed rc5 on my machine (Cyrix 6x86 166+, 64 EDO, perm
> connection)... what should my settings be? I'm running a internet server
> as well, so I don't want to give all my cpu cycles away.
>
> My id should be 'linux@linuxnet.org' right?
>
> Also, where are the rankings posted?
>
> -Paul
>
> On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to encourage all readers on the list with a reasonably regular
> > connection to the internet to download and run the rc5v2 client from
> > http://rc5.distributed.net/ (download the client at
> > ftp://ftp.distributed.net/pub/rc5/v2.004/rc5v2b4-linux-x86.tar.gz)
> >
> > The client runs with a nicelevel of 19, so it shouldn't disrupt the normal
> > operation of your machine. There's a collective effort for Linux at
> > http://www.linuxnet.org/ which is right now running second place overall,
> > third place in today's stats only. I was hoping that by drawing in some
> > readers of this list, we help could knock Apple off the top place. (That's
> > right, Apple. I guess someone in Cupertino made it corporate policy to run
> > the PPC client on every desktop... which would be disastrous for
> > productivity given the tasking architecture of the MacOS ;) If you set
> > your id to 'linux@linuxnet.org' you contribute your idle processor cycles
> > to the collective effort. (You can run it in the background as an ordinary
> > user with 'exec rc5v2 &')
> >
> > Hope some of you join in,
> >
> > TL
> >
> >
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