View Full Version : The Red Library DLV Project
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 12:44 PM
I just created a team for us for The Red Library DLV Project. Here's what it does:
Red Library is Ready Response's search engine with a difference - every single link in the database is hand picked (at present 7000+ links) and categorized. It is a tremendous resource and used by many other sites/visitors worldwide, but as with all search engines there is always a possibility that a link in the database will become a broken a link (404).
The idea behind this project was to make a client application which downloads links from the Red Library server, validates them (i.e. checks to see if they are 404 or not) and then returns the results back to Red Library. The Red Library server will then double check all the links that come back reported as 404, and remove the links if they are found to be down over a period of 7 days or longer. Basically - the more people that run the client, the less bad links will be present in Red Library!
Here's the link to the site if anyone wants to read more about it:
http://www.readyresponse.org/index.php?item=distributed&opt=2
Here's the link to our stats:
http://www.readyresponse.org/index.php?item=distributed&opt=12&tid=23
*Edit: I see THF joined up! WTG man!
Looks interesting, I'll have to read up on it.
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 01:02 PM
IMO, it's going to be pretty easy flying up the ranks in this. I have plenty of internet bandwidth so spare so I'm going to stick this thing on a few more of my compies. The top users today have done like just over 7k links and I have done about 150 in around 10 minutes so I really don't think it's going to be a problem overtaking other teams left and right.
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:02 PM
i have 3 clients up and running.... and with each at 'max' settings..... every 5 minutes check 10 links.....
yeah... i'm gellin
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:08 PM
I guess it'll show in a bit when the server updates how many links i've done.
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 01:13 PM
Ok, I just found out when trying to install on some older machines that you need .net installed, but it's not a problem, as I am installing it on those machines as we speak.
I was reading their faq section and as it turns out, I can run up to 3 instances at the same time on each computer!
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:18 PM
Yer KIDDING!?!?!?!
How do you do that?
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 01:19 PM
Nevermind, I was wrong. I thought it meant on each computer but it's only 3 clients per user. Sorry.
So would it be wrong for me to have several usernames so I could run more?
*Edit: Man, I feel like such an idiot. I guess I just got trigger happy when I saw the 3 client thing lol.
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:23 PM
I dunno man. I'm maxed out at 3. If you want, then make a new Username...
here is what they say on thier forums:
Hi,
We covered the main reason behind the cap in this thread: http://www.readyresponse.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1899
Basically there is no need for someone to be running 20 clients on one internet connection...because they would end up doing unnecessary work which would not be useful to the project.
We will obviously be aiming to detect people who sign up for multiple accounts in order to try and run more clients. We are well-aware that there always a way around the restrictions - and we hope that users respect the project and the reasons for the restrictions being in place.
Soon the client limits will be removed...but until then we will enforce it in every way we can Smile
Thanks.
Wang
So with that... I'd say just go with 3 clients.... and figure out another team to start from those bottom 3-4 clients on the DC list
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 01:26 PM
Thanks Frank, that cleared it up a bunch. I'll run my 3 clients from my house and try to get 3 more up on another connection accross town, since their main concern seems to be with 3 per connection rather that 3 per user.
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:26 PM
There is still Majestic-12 and MoneyBee left that we dont' have teams in. Maybe one of those could fill up your spare compies internet time?
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 01:28 PM
I was just thinking that exact same thing. At least I'll be getting my $$ worth out of this 8mb internet connection I'm paying out the butt for :p
# Linux - Coming soon!
That put me out of joining for now.
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:30 PM
I was just thinking that exact same thing. At least I'll be getting my $$ worth out of this 8mb internet connection I'm paying out the butt for :p
Yah.. Start a Majestic-12 team. The MoneyBee is a CPU hitter.... it'd take away from the F@H/BOINC time that concerns the others.
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:31 PM
That put me out of joining for now.
you could use WINE and the windows version.
I just tried and no worky. :(
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:36 PM
darn... sorry mate. hopefully they'll come out with a linux version soon.
I could install it on my mom's lappy but that is already folding and DIMEing, and that is already almost more than it can handle, so I think I'd better play it safe. :-/
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:44 PM
ok man. Too bad you can't vmware a windows install and do so on linux....
You guys positive this doesn't take away any from folding? If so, I would like to help, even tho I fold with another team. I only have 1 machine.
Redleg
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:46 PM
it doesn't use your CPU power. That's how we got a bunch from our F@H and BOINC teams to join in netDIMES also.
Both use minimal resources, and only hit your internet bandwidth.
Ok, so I dl the client, register it, and then on the team page, click the 'join this team' button?
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 01:50 PM
khiloa, if you want they have a majestic-12 linux install. I'm about to make a team for us.
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 01:52 PM
Ok, so I dl the client, register it, and then on the team page, click the 'join this team' button?
Yep.
Please dont' feel obligated to switch over to us from MaxPC. OR... you could try to do what we did here and expand your DC section to do more than F@H. We have SETI, BOINC, DIMES, Red-Library, and soon to be Majestic-12 Teams.
Ok, thanks, but no worries, I'll still fold for them, but do the Red-Library here. :)
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 02:52 PM
w00t! Frank's tearing it up!
GO FRANK GO!!!
He is towards the top of most of our D/C projects! I need to steal a few of his computers! :sn:
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 06:06 PM
He is towards the top of most of our D/C projects! I need to steal a few of his computers! :sn:
Me? I'm using 3 PC's. A Socket A Sempron 2200+ OC'd from 166fsb to 200fsb. A Socket 754 Sempron 64 3000+, and a Socket 754 Athlon 64 3200+
On all 3 of my clients for Red Library, I set interval to 5 minutes (minimum interval) and Links to 10 (max links).
Beyond that, when it comes to the others, it is longevity, especially with F@H. I just joined BOINC on 3 projects, so it'll be awhile before those stats get up high.
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 06:58 PM
We're already about to start passing people! We should be in the #17 spot by tomorrow(or maybe even late tonight!)
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 07:35 PM
sweet!
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 07:49 PM
#18 now! We're just too good!
sno.lcn
04-10-06, 10:55 PM
Check this out, THF's unstoppable!!!
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 11:31 PM
and considerin' I was only doin' that for half the day.... WOOT
Wait till it lets us get more than 3 clients....
TollhouseFrank
04-10-06, 11:35 PM
guys... i checked the stats page... i'm SUPPOSED to be #2 on the stats for the day over-all... (i got 3600+ points yesterday)... but it doesn't show me on there.... wonder why....
/me has evil laugh casue he know how to run more than one R L on a the computers
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8134/rl4rm.jpg
There's 6 of us on the team now, and we've moved up to #17. [Song from the Jefferson's] We're Movin on up. :)
TollhouseFrank
04-11-06, 11:03 AM
yah.
all my production stopped from midnight till noon today. I lost my internet right at midnight and it didn't come back till now....
sno.lcn
04-11-06, 11:29 PM
#16
TollhouseFrank
04-12-06, 01:40 PM
I'm the #2 Participant today! (hope this is the right link) http://www.readyresponse.org/index.php?item=distributed&opt=4
sno.lcn
04-13-06, 08:05 AM
#15
TollhouseFrank
04-14-06, 12:59 PM
me and rpkole are both in the top 10 today! both at 7100points for the day (as of 2pm est)
sno.lcn
04-14-06, 09:13 PM
Whats with my points on this thing? I have the same number of clients running the rest of you do? Is there some way anyone has found to make this thing go faster?
TollhouseFrank
04-15-06, 12:38 AM
hmm... all i did was set mine to every 5 minutes, and 10 links. That's the only thing i can think of to optimize it.
sno.lcn
04-15-06, 09:26 AM
Oh well. btw, we took #14 last night :p
TollhouseFrank
04-18-06, 03:10 AM
guys... i lost a client. Reinstalled windows today... and it won't let me install Red Library....
Hope you can get things worked out. We're in a solid 14th spot, moving ever so close to 13th. Keep'm going guys!!! :cool:
sno.lcn
04-18-06, 08:14 AM
guys... i lost a client. Reinstalled windows today... and it won't let me install Red Library....
Did you reinstall teh .net 1.1?
I had to do a windows reinstall yesterday and forgot teh .net but once I reinstalled it, RL ran fine.
*Edit: Except I forgot my password and then finally realized it's that stupid one they assigned me on a post-it on my wall.
sn0lcn moving on up in the ranks
i jsut found a way to almost double my points with only 3 clients but it involves a second app that shutdown and starts the clients back up every 2 mins at which point they get a new set of 10 links :p
TollhouseFrank
04-22-06, 01:34 PM
i just wish i could get it back on my main compy here... it will install, but won't run.
Finally back up. Had a storm come thru here friday evening, was gone, and when the wife and I got back, all the clocks were flashing. Lost my MB and the nic card in the cable modem. It also fried our DVD/VCR combo player. Finally got it back from the shop this morning, and I'm finally 'turning pages' again.
Since it was in the shop, I had them put in the K8N Diamond Plus, 7900GT CO, and another gig of memory.
sno.lcn
04-28-06, 06:12 PM
We just took #12 everyone!
TollhouseFrank
05-01-06, 09:59 PM
woot!
That's great!
I finally got all my rigs back up again. I think i had them down for 2-3 days by accident.
sno.lcn
05-02-06, 07:11 AM
I got passed :cry: Now two "users" are ahead of me...Kole and...Kole?!
WTG man! :attn:
No question asked is stupid, so they say, but this one has to be. Looking at the scores, you guys obviously have more than 1 computer running in RL, correct? Reason I wonder is I feel soooo left behind having only 1 computer, and you guys' points are so far ahead of mine. Guess that's not really a question as more of a fact, huh? :)
sno.lcn
05-13-06, 03:05 PM
I think we're all running 3 clients with the exception of kole who's running 6(I think) but under 2 names.
Ok, thanks sno. I kinda figured you guys were doing something like that. Explains why I'm in the dust. lol
well i really only have 2 computers running RL but they both have 3 clients on each and are both on diff net connections
well i really only have 2 computers running RL but they both have 3 clients on each and are both on diff net connections
Ok, I gotta ask now. How do ya get 3 clients? Are your machines dual core? If not, how can I do that on mine, or can I? It's in my sig.
Thanks for any help,
Redleg
sno.lcn
05-14-06, 02:00 PM
I think the way he did it was 3 instances in 3 different folders and maybe he renamed the .exe files with 1, 2, & 3 at the end. I could be wrong though, I can't find the post he made on how to do it.
I asked the same question to rpkole
thats a easy one just copy the dir that RL is in then rename the exe
example red.exe rename to red1.exe or red2.exe and the dir jsut put a 1 or 2 on the end of that too
hope this helps
Rpkole
*ugh* too many projects to keep up with.. much less run multiple instances of them. ;)
Ok, not being very literate computerwise, I think I've got it. I now have 2 icons in my taskbar, both with different numbers, so I'm guessing I did something right. Gonna reboot and see if they stay put. :beer: :beer: To you guys for the help, Thanks
edit: Ok, I've got 2 instances running. Both have the same name n pw tho, hoping that's ok. The 2nd one, I have to manually start I'm guessing because I have it on a different partition.
Thanks again guys,
:beer: :beer: is on me
All you have to do is copy the redlib_dlv folder twice; I have redlib_dlv, redlib_dlv2, and redlib_dlv3. Then, go into each folder and add the corresponding number to RedLib-DLV.exe, ie RedLib-DLV2.exe, RedLib-DLV3.exe, and start up all 3
Hope that helps
All you have to do is copy the redlib_dlv folder twice; I have redlib_dlv, redlib_dlv2, and redlib_dlv3. Then, go into each folder and add the corresponding number to RedLib-DLV.exe, ie RedLib-DLV2.exe, RedLib-DLV3.exe, and start up all 3
Hope that helps
Got it Karbon, thanks :)
Joined this project to help out from time to time.
TollhouseFrank
06-21-06, 01:16 PM
WOOT!
guys, looks like we may be in the top 10 soon!
If we could get just a couple-3 more people to join the cause, it'd be great!
sno.lcn
06-21-06, 01:36 PM
Is there a red libary service install?
TollhouseFrank
06-21-06, 03:57 PM
not that I know of. I'd ask them on thier forum for a service install, but likely, there isn't.
:D Well, I've added a third instance for the RL and have now moved ahead of Rp. Feels really good to finally pass someone in a project. lol
Congrats :)
It's really too bad how there isnt a way to run more than 3 clients per user. I guess we could all have multiple user names on our team, but that probably isn't encouraged by the project creaters.
I can't believe how fast I climbed just by adding that 1 more instance of RL on my system. I'm now in 4th there, and over in DIMES, I've climbed up to 36th spot.
Redleg
sno.lcn
06-28-06, 09:32 PM
Great, ya bumped me down!:temper:
Nice job. I've lost track of all my clients so I guess I'll just put them all on one compie because I'm not even sure if I'm still producing.:bang head
That's why I decided not to put 1 instance on each rig on my house. First of all, not all of them are on 24/7...and like you said it's just hard to keep track of. /me wishes red library and netdimes would let us run more than 3 or 1 clients respectively.
Okay...so I was scrimming in cs and my fps dropped to 20. I looked at the task manager and red library was using 50% cpu...wtf? I stopped that one...30 seconds later both of the other ones shot up to 50%. Has that happened to anyone else?
DDR-PIII
07-04-06, 11:50 PM
Looks like fun, I'm In :)
sno.lcn
07-05-06, 12:00 AM
Looks like fun, I'm In :)
Great, another person to pass me.:bang head
:welcome: aboard!
DDR-PIII
07-05-06, 07:32 AM
how my question is, how lopkng does it t ake for the website to get updated with ho mnay links are validated ?
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9063/dlv5ff.jpg
teehehe...
They update quite frequently.
Also, i believe it's a maximum of 3 clients per user.
DDR-PIII
07-05-06, 03:55 PM
They update quite frequently.
Also, i believe it's a maximum of 3 clients per user.
per IP ?
per username. Like...you can only have 3 clients running under "ic3d" or whatever your username is.
edit: do you really have that many instances running? holy crap.
If you really wanted to you could just run the project under a few usernames on the same team, but the project developers wouldn't be too happy.
DDR-PIII
07-05-06, 08:45 PM
per username. Like...you can only have 3 clients running under "ic3d" or whatever your username is.
edit: do you really have that many instances running? holy crap.
If you really wanted to you could just run the project under a few usernames on the same team, but the project developers wouldn't be too happy.
why not ? dont they want to get the job done fast ? it dosent make sense, look at MJ12, as fast as you can, this one is 10-30 every 5mins...
IIRC a few reasons. For starters, their servers can't handle that much. That makes no sense for a number of reasons, but the other one does make sense. By having people from various ISPs, countries, etc it makes the data more significant - they can see trends in whether some urls dont work and stuff.
Just noticed over in RL forum that Wang has lifted the restriction on how many clients can be run. You can now have more than 3 listed. I was wondering about that when I was browsing thru some of the other teams' scores, and saw 1 guy already has over 133k links validated today (and I'm chugging along with only 5200), and it's only going on 0930 Eastern. :drool: I'm slowly catching up to ya karbon. :)
Redleg
Wow, I read the forums a few weeks ago and they were trying to cut down on people getting more points. They encouraged people to upgrade to the new client that only allows X points per day.
This is a good step for the project, but may be harmful to our team. I'm sure there are teams that only do this project and are willing to run dozens of clients, whereas a large portion of our RL team (myself included) try to do several DC projects at the same time.
Unfortunately I hate having to decide which projects to run. I wish they would hurry up on the linux client.
TollhouseFrank
07-23-06, 01:13 PM
hmm... sometimes, you just have to spread yourself 'thin' to do the greatest good. Do a whole bunch of different projects, and help out OCForums as a whole! If you can, try to get a different project on each machine you have.
sno.lcn
07-23-06, 02:08 PM
This one doesn't use cpar for resources does it? Any idea how many clients I can load up on one rig with, say, 512mb ram?
I'm not at home right now, but IIRC each one only uses like 14mb ram...
TollhouseFrank
07-23-06, 08:09 PM
yeah... it isn't much. I can't remember who, but i thinks someone here fixed up a batch file that ran Red-Library, turned it off, loaded up another one (under a different name), turned it off after measurements, then followed that in succession through a few user-names.
yeah... it isn't much. I can't remember who, but i thinks someone here fixed up a batch file that ran Red-Library, turned it off, loaded up another one (under a different name), turned it off after measurements, then followed that in succession through a few user-names.
They removed the number of clients per username restriction.
I'm running 8 clients right now.
TollhouseFrank
07-23-06, 08:52 PM
really? ALl on one PC? Or different PCs?
All on one pc. I could probably run ~ 25 clients if I wanted to
Anyone know of a way to get rid of the RL icons in the tray? Having 12 of them there isn't a pleasant sight.
sno.lcn
07-25-06, 09:51 PM
I just put 8 of these on my htpc, it's also runing netDIMES and mj-12 and a boinc project or two. I never knew that each client used the same config so I don't have to put in my name and password every time, that's sweet! I guess I'll keep putting more and more of these things on until it cripples the rig or my router(whichever comes first).
I don't even have to put in the username and password, it's just already set for me somehow. There's tons of users putting up 300,000+ points a day, it's insane now.
I'm running 32 clients now. If I go down in rank again I will not be a happy camper.
sno.lcn
07-25-06, 11:36 PM
I'm running 32 clients now. If I go down in rank again I will not be a happy camper.
On one rig?!
Yeah. Each client only uses 20mb ram and no cpu so it's not that bad. Euler uses 5mb ram for each client and majestic 12 doesnt use that much either, so I have plenty of ram to spare.
MJ12 has always been a major system hog whenever I've tried it, even when I crank the settings down (maybe not when way WAY down). :shrug:
I'm gonna try going up to 48 clients- I'm only using 550mb ram and that's with azureus and MJ12 taking up almost 100mb each.
Every time I see what people are doing at XS I feel like I have to beat them at their own game :)
ohiosurfer
07-27-06, 09:37 AM
So Karbon, is this the reason your DIMES production has dropped so significantly? You've been cheating with another project! :eek:
I might do a test run over the next couple of days. If the other projects play nice, it'll be a keeper. :beer:
TollhouseFrank
07-27-06, 09:50 AM
hmmm..... I may do the same.
So Karbon, is this the reason your DIMES production has dropped so significantly? You've been cheating with another project! :eek:
I might do a test run over the next couple of days. If the other projects play nice, it'll be a keeper. :beer:
unfortunately yes :eek:
It's really annoying having to use vmware when I want to use my computer. It takes a few minutes every time I turn all the VMs on or off, and in the summer I use my computer more. I might go back to dimes in september.
sno.lcn
07-27-06, 10:35 AM
That's nets karbon! 48 clients?!:drool: I was trying to catch up with you a little but it doesn't look like it's going to happen now.:bang head
I went up to a clean 50 :)
After I'm done seeding something for a few days with azureus I should be able to get another 10-15 or so up.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108513
Damn those clever XS...found a way to get rid of all the icons in the tray
(right click it, properties, customize, put each red library on "always hide")
sno.lcn
07-27-06, 11:02 AM
Nice find karbon!
well it looks like we should eventually pass 3 teams pretty easily, but XS will pass us
sno.lcn
07-28-06, 02:09 PM
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure we just passed 2 teams to make us #9!:clap:
*Edit: We just got like 800 more points at the vault for this!
I'm confused. http://www.readyresponse.org/index.php?item=distributed&opt=9 the official stats show that we have 2,345,057 points, but free-dc says we have 3,634,518.
All the teams have more links on free-dc, but I have more links (just me) on readyresponse than free-dc.
What's going on?
ohiosurfer
07-28-06, 04:30 PM
I'm confused. http://www.readyresponse.org/index.php?item=distributed&opt=9 the official stats show that we have 2,345,057 points, but free-dc says we have 3,634,518.
All the teams have more links on free-dc, but I have more links (just me) on readyresponse than free-dc.
What's going on?
As far as individual stats go, it appears free-dc is 1 update behind.
As far as total links, free-dc is accurate when using the individual stats provided on their site. Total links on ready response is just completely wrong, the total using their numbers should be 3,660,818
well it looks like we should eventually pass 3 teams pretty easily, but XS will pass us
Looks like ur mowing everyone down , eh. Nice.
That's nets karbon! 48 clients?!:drool: I was trying to catch up with you a little but it doesn't look like it's going to happen now.:bang head
I think that might be my fault. A couple weeks ago, I nudged him telling him I was catching up too. Since then,,,,, well, karbon is close to a mil now, and I'm still back at less than 1/2 a mil. :)
That's just AWESOME!!!
Heh, up to 80 clients. If all goes well I'll go up to 100 tomorrow, and maybe more if I get another gig of ram.
ohiosurfer
07-29-06, 06:36 PM
Heh, up to 80 clients. If all goes well I'll go up to 100 tomorrow, and maybe more if I get another gig of ram.
80 clients!?!?! :eek: I wonder how many this guy (http://stats.free-dc.org/new/userstats.php?proj=red&name=DarkStar) has?
Does having all of those clients slow your internet down? If not, I may add a few more. :)
I only have 4mbit/430 cable and it doesn't slow anything down. I ran 80 clients, with utorrent using 35/54 of my upload, hl2 dm ran fine. My computer is ancient as well.
Definitely check this out!!!
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11459
ohiosurfer
07-29-06, 09:27 PM
also for installing there are these two which will allow you to install hundreds per computer in a matter of seconds.
:eek:
I guess that would explain the extreme pointage some of these teams are putting up. Ars Technica posted over 4 million links so far today, thats more than our total production! :(
I really can't get this to work on my laptop. Is anyone trying it on windows 2000? At first it couldn't find a dll, now a "fatal error" occurs and it says that it needs .net framework to tell me the error.
does red library need .net?
the free-dc stats are really screwed up
nevermind, for a few hours I didn't see our team listed on the stats, I got kind of worried lol. It was really screwed up, about half the people/teams in the stats weren't on there.
I'm still only running 3 instances of RL. Found out that this coming Friday will be my last day on the Boardwalk crew, so maybe after that, I can run up some more instances and "try" to catch up. :bang head
Edit: Just made a small change and added 5 more instances. Only doing 8 instances tho. See what that gets me by next weekend.
http://www.readyresponse.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1948
son of a bee-sting.
edit: You can keep clients going, but once you try to start up more than 3 it won't let you. So basically I plan on never restarting/shutting off my computer.
edit2: Once I lose 87 clients I'll switch back over to dimes VMs
right...so apparantly there's a bug now where if you have more than 10 clients running, you get 0 credit. If you have more than 10 running, try stopping them all and only starting up 10.
sno.lcn
08-15-06, 03:36 PM
Gayness! Thanks for letting us know, I figured something was wrong with my farm.
I'm only running 8 clients, and am getting credit for them, so I guess I'll stay where I am for now. :)
I have no idea what's going on with mine...I wanted to switch them over to my laptop but they won't work at all. The "10 client limit reached" message comes up and I don't have any running.
This is coming from a pretty much non-compy literate person, but could there be something in the registry saying how many clients are installed, and feeding it to the server, to be getting those kind of messages? Just wondering.
Redleg
Added another instance, so I'm now doing 9. Staying away from that nasty '10' number so I don't have the problems everyone else has. Nudged THF out of the 4 slot yesterday :p :clap: , and am s l o w l y working on the 3 slot. It'll be awhile tho, before that happens.
Redleg
sno.lcn
08-23-06, 07:03 AM
Looks like we have 3 teams on our threat list now. I'll get my 10 clients back up asap.
About the 10 client limit thing, do they track that per username or ip? Could I make another username and run another 10 from my house?
I'm almost positive it is by username. If you wanted to, you could make another name and run clients under it to get my points for the team.
I really can't get red library working- the clients say that they are validating the links but every day I get 0 for points. I'm talking to Wang from the RL project so hopefully he can help me out. I think it has something to do with win 2k not working right.
I believe it's by username also. ffzen and I are putting up as many as we can, and could sure use some help. :) We've been battling back and forth the past few days for top spot for the day. I think he's got 10 instances going cause he edges ahead towards the end of the count. I'm still only running 9.
If I were to make a few more usernames I could go back to 140 a day :D
TollhouseFrank
08-23-06, 06:43 PM
ii haven't even been running this for about 4-5 days. I've been in kubuntu for awhile now getting it set up to my liking. I think i'm gonna boot back into windows this evening to get my Red-Library client going again.
After Red Library put the 10 client limit, i had to uninstall and delete everything. Then i reinstalled 10 clients, but only 9 work for me as well.
It was kind of a pain b/c it took some time to label all of them only to delete them shortly after. Oh well, i had 50-something clients running for like a day and a half, then they cut it off. Blah.
sno.lcn
08-25-06, 06:41 AM
But I would have to run each username on a different compy right? Because when installing multiple clients I only have to configure the first one, each one I add after that is already configured the same as the first.
You could just change the user/pass manually on each client probably
Welcome back karbon. :welcome: Glad to see you're up and running RL again. :)
I have no idea what made it start working again, I got a different problem on each computer I wanted it to run on. I think Wang got it working for me again somehow...
anyways, I think I'll be at 4 million soon =D
Seems like 10 clients work now instead of 9. :thup:
Total Links Validated 4,000,192 :beer:
Total Links Validated 4,000,192 :beer:
WTG on dem 4 mil Karbon, :beer: :beer:I was catching up to y'all before I opened my mouth. Again. :eek: ffzen is firing up the place too. We just might climb a spot or 2 in the near future in RL.
Redleg
Slid into 3rd spot on the team. Might even get a chance at 2nd one day, but don't think I'll catch Karbon. Team is about 17 days out of catching up and passing Crunchers Inc. :beer: :beer: :beer:
If we just had 3 more people doing this (with 10 clients each) we could take #3 for daily production.
On another note, hypothetically we could each make another username to use as well. That's how Ars Technica has so many points.
w00t !! here's to you ffzen, you just went over 1 mil in RL :beer: :beer: :beer:
I emailed Wang from RR about people that obviously are running more than 10 clients, he didn't respond. I might go ahead and fire up some more clients...
w00t !! here's to you ffzen, you just went over 1 mil in RL :beer: :beer: :beer:
:attn: Thanks, i'm still trying to catch up to you and everyone else.
I finally broke down and am running 10 instances, so I hope you don't catch me, but you're on the way up, that's for sure.
Is anyone running this on win2k? I uh, might have added a few clients to the laptop under different names, and everything looks okay on the client end but I don't have any points.
It's not a problem with the client restriction, I've never gotten it to work with win2k :confused
TollhouseFrank
09-17-06, 08:09 PM
Is anyone running this on win2k? I uh, might have added a few clients to the laptop under different names, and everything looks okay on the client end but I don't have any points.
It's not a problem with the client restriction, I've never gotten it to work with win2k :confused
It'll work on 2k. Heck, King_Warg worked on NT4 till he could get DIMES running in NT4 (still don't know how he did it)
sno.lcn
09-17-06, 08:23 PM
Sorry guys, I forgot to turn my rl clients back on after my last reboot:bang head I got them back up now though, and I'll go ahead and make a couple more usernames:santa:
*Edit: Made another name, I guess I'll let it run for a little bit to see if it puts up any points before I load up the other 9 clients.
*Edit again: Looks like I'm puttin' up points! Anyone have a guess as to how many of these thing I can run without eating too much bandwidth?
:) I'm guessing sno is snowcone, and Karbon is PeterPanda, and PollyPrissyPants??? lol :beer: Sure hope you can figure out what's wrong Karbon, we can always use the points.
Redleg
sno.lcn
09-18-06, 05:55 AM
lol I was wondering who the hell pollyprissypants was:rolleyes: That's hilarious:beer:
Anyone have a guess as to how many of these thing I can run without eating too much bandwidth?
Back in the day I used to run 140 clients and I don't think it ever really affected anything
sno.lcn
09-18-06, 06:03 PM
I've been trying to install this on some farm rigs over vnc and when I try to run the program I get a "failed to initialize properly bla bla bla something."
Any ideas?
RL uses .net, maybe it has something to do with that, what OS?
sno.lcn
09-18-06, 07:04 PM
xp pro sp2
*Edit: Yup it was the .net. Now the clients will run in the system tray but not show anything or let me config. I'll keep workin on it though:D
It'll work on 2k. Heck, King_Warg worked on NT4 till he could get DIMES running in NT4 (still don't know how he did it)
on another note, this DIMESgod better put some numbers on the board to prove his worth. :eek: :cool: he he he
I added some more clients, it was inspired by playing a certain game
I added some more clients, it was inspired by playing a certain game
I'll take a stab at the name!! MeSaleYouGoldOk? LMAO!!! :beer:
At least once a day, I have to reboot my system because there'll be one instance freeze up, and validate maybe 8/10, and just sit there. :bang head
are you using .net 1.1? If you are, make sure you have SP1 for it. Maybe it's a memory bug that's fixed in it.
sno.lcn
09-21-06, 08:36 PM
We took teh crunchers inc! It says we'll never overtake xgrubbers, and norway is on our @ss. However, we've been steady outproducing xgrubbers the past week so that should change:D
vaiopup
09-21-06, 08:38 PM
We (Crunchers Inc) all but stopped months ago. :)
I could still add another 100 clients pretty easily, but I don't think the devs would like that :bang head
sno.lcn
09-21-06, 09:13 PM
I just put up another 20:p
LMAO !! You guys are nuts!! Love them new names.
Karbon, I'm not sure which .net I'm using. I have both 1.1 and 2.0 in my windows folder, but I didn't see any SP1 in there. Would it be in the same folder, or somewhere else. Did a search, but I think it came up empty, other than other files with "sp1" in them.
On a side note, I went to RL forum, and found out how to restart them after they freeze up, without rebooting, so in the future, I'll just do it that way.
Thanks for the help.
Redleg
vaiopup
09-21-06, 11:32 PM
Check add/remove programmes.....if you have it it'll be listed there.
Won't swear to it, until someone else says something, but I've run into another problem. Did a reboot, and when everything loaded I opened the first client, and got this:
[2:01 AM] Sorry - you are running too many clients on this project
[2:01 AM] The maximum number of clients you can run is 3
[2:01 AM] Client stopped
I thought the limit was 10 clients. I looked over on their forum, and didn't find anything stating they were going back to limiting you to 3 clients. This is with ver 1.9, by the way.
That's happened to me a few times. Whenever that comes up I wait about half an hour and then start up some more clients and it doesn't give you that message
But I can't get even the first one to run now. Startin to hate computers. lol Wish I knew more about these things.
DIMES going South on me, now RL going South. I think there's a conspiracy brewing on me. lol
If none of them are working, try waiting a day, and if that doesn't fix it go ahead and email Wang from readyresponse. I had a similar problem and he fixed it for me pretty fast
the dimes servers have been going down a lot, maybe that's why you're having problems with it
TollhouseFrank
09-22-06, 01:59 PM
my dimes machine has been runnin' fine. I'm thinkin' of possibly setting back up one of my extra machines just for DIMES and Red-Library.
Thanks Karbon, that was the longest 24 hours I've spent in awhile. :beer: Got the 10 back up and running again. Don't know what happened, but I'm a happy camper again.
Redleg
Well, it's doing it again. Just got home from my VFW post, to find the power had been off, and my RL clients all shut down. Will try it again tomorrow to see if I get that same message about only allowing 3 clients. Sigh, this is getting old too. First Dimes, now RL messing with me. :bang head
Team Norway, which is currently in 8th place is knocking at our door. Estimate time of overtake is still 32 days away, but that's getting too close for me. Wish I had another computer to put up some more clients.
Each client only uses between like 8-20mb ram, so you can definitely run more than 10 clients per computer. When I get home tomorrow I can add another 70 clients if needed
TollhouseFrank
09-30-06, 12:52 PM
well, that idea went by the wayside.... my extra machine ended up being used for a friend as his new computer.... (his old one got ker-sploded in a car-wreck)
so...yeah, my "karbon" clients are producing 0 for stats.
The client limit is just annoying, it doesn't really stop anything...
w00t!! Way to go karbon. You broke 5mil :beer: :beer: :beer:
Redleg
[10:09 PM] Error: Unable to connect to the remote server
The power went out this morning from a storm, I just got around to starting up all the clients again. Are your clients running okay? It looks like the readyresponse.org site is down too
One or 2 of them might go down, but when I notice it, I go to task manager, close them then reopen and they run ok. Haven't had any problems with RL at all since your tip on closing them and waiting a day when I get that 'over limit' message. Dimes, on the other hand, has been nothing but a pain in the butt. I've dropped it, there's too much of a problem on thier end keeping it running.
TollhouseFrank
10-30-06, 01:25 PM
DIMES may not be long for this world. They have a noble purpose... but with so many problems on thier end, and with at least 1 of the team leaving isreal permantly.... DIMES looks to be on shaky footing.
sno.lcn
10-30-06, 01:41 PM
So that means we'll have to find something to replace it and then get that project added to the vault:D
TollhouseFrank
10-30-06, 01:45 PM
that, we will Sno.
Hmm... just wonder what it would be.....
Ok...it's been 2 days and still I can't get any clients working.
everyone else's clients are okay???
Not sure about you others, but mine and ffzen's are working great. Knock on wood!!!
Redleg
Edit: karbon, according to this stats page, your clients are doing pretty good too. As of the time on the page, you had 12,500 so far for the day. Yesterday, you ended up with 22,400.
http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=red&team=overclockers.com
I think the stats are messed up, they have to be. None of my clients have been running since saturday morning lol
I still get [2:33 PM] Error: Unable to connect to the remote server when trying to start up new clients, and www.readyresponse.org is down still, but when I get home I'll start up all the clients again and maybe there's just a problem with the client authentication or something
Now I see what you're meaning karbon. Had to reboot my computer today, and none of the clients will load. This is mean, but I'm hoping it's affecting everyone, cause I've been neck and neck with a guy from Team Norway. So, this is now 2 projects, I've put on hold. :bang head :bang head
TollhouseFrank
11-29-06, 12:11 AM
guys... looks like red library is down... not sure how long it has been. Thier website is down as well, and just says "will be back soon". You all may want to just pause/stop your red library clients for a while until we can confirm it is back up and running again.
guys... looks like red library is down... not sure how long it has been. Thier website is down as well, and just says "will be back soon". You all may want to just pause/stop your red library clients for a while until we can confirm it is back up and running again.
I think we figured that out a month ago :p
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