distributed.net's RC5 again...

[fallenang3l]

Yeah, it's all configured and working fine, but in Windows when I close the app and return later, it resumes where it left off (crunch-o-meter) but in Linux the crunch-o-meter is started at the beginning. Do I close the terminal window in an inappropriate way in Linux? I'm a terrible newbie willing to learn so please help :).

[The King Ant]

I think typing "CTRL+c" in the window will exit it nicely.

I wrote some stuff about setting up dnetc a while ago, you might find something in it helpful (even though you've already got it installed).

[fallenang3l]

Thanks... any reason why in Linux I get only some 400 kkey/s and in Windows I get 1.85 mkey/s - in other words Linux version is over 4 times slower?

[FoBoT]

only guessing, but many of these DC projects use FORTRAN for the math stuff and it seems that the commonly available FORTRAN compiler for linux is lame compared to winders

if i was a big time rich dude, i would hire somebody to fix that http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/hmph.gif

[The King Ant]

I think you should get the same key rate in both OSs. I don't think it's written in FORTRAN, but it might be. Even if it was, that's a huge difference.

Make sure you're only running 1 dnetc client ("ps auxw | grep dnetc"). Also make sure you're crunching the same things in both OS (ex: RC5).

You can run "top" to show some stats on your computer. When you're idle, it should show dnetc on top with 90-100%. (don't worry, it's really "nice," so if something else wants to use some processing time, dnetc will back off (actually, you can set how nice it is in the config file, but by default it's really nice)).