[YK]

Is there a specific (or rather general) relationship between the number of candidates and conformers? The stats count the conformers, while the software keeps track of candidates. It looks to me (I have noticed it while uploading large numbers of units) that there is a variation in the productivity from one candidate to another.

[balding_ape]

Chew, on Dec 22 2003, 09:58 AM, said:

balding_ape, on Dec 23 2003, 12:39 AM, said:

Chew, on Dec 21 2003, 06:34 AM, said:

There's some tight competition in our top 10.  After our two leaders, the next five positions are within 250 candidates of each other!

Watch out for me nipping at their heels...I just purchased a 2500+ to replace my Celeron 600 that died.

Sorry ba, but I think you'll need a couple of those to make any ground on the top 10

Ah, but that's only one of three nodes; I'm replacing my slowest.

Er, okay, so maybe I'll just be seeing the dust of the top 10...but that's an improvement over my current circumstances, where they are entirely out of sight.

[Primate]

Check you're clients to be sure they are working on something.
I checked both of my machines this morning to discover that neither were working on anything because D2OL changed the server or something and the DNS hasn't propagated yet.
If you are having this problem you can get around it by TEMPORARILY adding this line to your HOSTS file:
67.98.89.121 data.d2ol.com
then manually update the D2OL client.

All this information, better explained can be found here:
CLICKME

[Davin]

Prof.Wizard, on Dec 13 2003, 04:47 AM, said:

I decided to crunch offline and unleash my circa 1000 cached units once they are ready.
Beware Davin!

I'm creeping back up on you Prof.

[Krusher]

For you Linux users, I found a neat way to run D2OL in the background that is almost invisible to the system. (Actually I pieced parts together from the D2OL message board from a post I made about changing the priority.)

It does not seem like I lost any computation time with this, but your results may vary if you have more processes. This runs without a status window.

The quick answer is to first change the line in SengentD2OL/D2OL/res/control.prp
LaunchMain=true to
LaunchMain=false

and then (for RedHat 9; others may vary)
nice -n 19 ./D2OL controller:file &

From the same directory as your D2OL executable file. Although I did not receive a response on how to stop that process properly, I only reboot the computer once a month anyway and rebooting always stops it of course.

Here is the long thread below for those interested.

http://www.d2ol.com/...ic;f=7;t=000620

[Sivar]

Making my way slowly up to the top 10. SR_Bob_D and harijs, your days above me are numbered, and are in the single digits.

[Chew]

Sivar, on Jan 3 2004, 12:26 PM, said:

Making my way slowly up to the top 10. SR_Bob_D and harijs, your days above me are numbered, and are in the single digits.

Doesn't look that slowly to me!

I've borrowed a server with 3x 700MHz Xeon 3 to try and claw my way in to top 10, and I've finally got it in my sights. Recca99, watch out, I'm right on your heels!

Anyway, not sure how long I'll have it for, and even with it you're one of the three beating me in the weekly stats. Between you and Sling I'll be lucky to hold on to a top 10 position for long...

[Sivar]

Does honold run d2ol? With his fleet of Dells, he would be quite the moving target.

[honold]

i've got clusters of shuttles too

i don't run any such things because of the power consumption / heat issues

[Sivar]

Aw, c'mon honold. The difference between typical power use and max power use is usually around 20%. Could you maybe run d2ol on your two fastest machines, for the worthy goal of helping SR trample Ars and Anandtech's d2ol teams? I'll gladly paypal you $0.13/mo for the added power cost.