Posts by old_user17042

1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Connecting too often (Message 10568) Posted 8 Mar 2005 by old_user17042 Post: Don't forget besides your boinc preferences, windows has a setting for auto dial up that might be causing this. Also after changing boinc preference right click on project window climatepredition and click update for the preference to become effective. Try to test Boinc by setting up as run based on preferences instead of run always and vice versa. Boinc may be trying to fetch the preferences stored in your climate prediction account on the internet. Internet Windows preferences may be the controlling factor in Run always mode. Remember where there is a will there is a way...... I have found BOINC does more crunching faster the longer it is between updates. So I keep tabs on and manually upload my computers that use a modem. Hope this helps.... Paul
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Best Number Crunching OS and settings? (Message 6069) Posted 12 Nov 2004 by old_user17042 Post: I am still looking for the best OS & Crunch Times also, there is one thing you might try if you havn't already. I discovered it while setting my preferences for BOINC. My hard drive access setting was set to once a minute, I changed this to 600 sec (10 MIN)and my numbers jumped 25% on all computers. I just changed to 30 min to see if I get more! Paul Dam > I'm sure this has been discussed someplace, but what is the very best > operating system to use w/BOINC, in order to get the very best number > crunching performance out of the cpu's? Windows 2000 Pro, XP Pro, Server 2003; > Linux, etc. > > If it happens to be Windows, what is the best number crunching only settings? > > > With my Windows XP Pro system, I've enabled HyperThreading in the bios for my > 2.4C GHz P4. I've disabled all ports such as serial, parallel, and USB. > Disable the built in sound. I've got 1 gig of DDR, so I disabled the > pagefile.sys. I defrag my HD at least once a week. I've Optimized Performance > for Background Services. I've set my video for performance. Is there anything > else I can do for any added performance? > > I've also a Dual Athlon MP2800+ system running w/Windows 2000 Pro, > w/essecially the same settings except for the HT and the pagefile.sys. This > system has only 512 meg DDR, so the pagefile is running at 766 min/766 max on > a second drive. > > How about a RAMDrive? > > Thx > >