SOB: Performance issues and optimizations

[Overkiller]

I had a question bout SOB, P4 Ht's, and results.

I'm running the latest SOB client (1 instance) stock [ i.e. no optimizations].

I am getting 815K cems/s on a P4C 2.8 @ 3.2.

now the questions:

when i check task manager it shows up as 68% cpu usage. Is this true or is the usage more towards 100%? as i dont believe 1 cpu @ 3.2 ghz would be 1G/s production....


also, is there any way i can optimize the client for HT / is it worth it?

lastly sob says its a 2.8 ghz cpu when it's a 2.8 @ 3.2..is this normal?

thanks guys!

 

[Confused]

You really want to use the Service installer, and use the flag -o2, which will set it to the optimal number of processes and affinity for HT capable machines



Garry

 

[Overkiller]

i'll give that a go. all that gooblegock in the readme confused me (no pun intended ) about all the various configuration options available.

i'll respond with results later

 

[Overkiller]

tried installing the service by doing sobsvc -i.

then sobsvc -o2

nothing happens. even restarted.

service does not show up in services.msc

ideas?


if it helps here is some info from my sobsvc log?

[2004/05/04 10:07:15.640]: ** SB Client version 1.10+ **
[2004/05/04 10:07:24.812]: Parms retrieved: NumClients = 2, AffType = 0, WUQueue = 0, PeriodicRestart = 0, AutodialType = 0
[2004/05/04 10:07:24.812]: TrueIdle = FALSE, MonitorRestart = FALSE, StuckRestart = FALSE, KeepVisible = FALSE
[2004/05/04 10:07:24.812]: NormalizeXP = FALSE
[2004/05/04 10:07:24.812]: AutoRestart OFF

 

[Overkiller]

up up and away?


ever since doing the sobsvc-i then sobsvc -o2 i still have to manually load SB...

there is only 1 client that loads.

But my cems/s are hovering around 970K cems/s ..

quite the improvement i'd say..when i go into task manager it shows up as only 65% usage. i've read that taskmanager reading the info. improperly..NEVER happened to me but could this be a possibility?

what are some peoples' times running a p4 3.2 ghz?

thanks guys...any other ideas?

 

[Allio]

I really can't understand how you've got the results you're getting. The service installer wouldn't have made any difference to the speed of a single instance of SB... my guess is that you've just hit a faster part of the test. That's an absolutely insane rate for one instance, by the way!

Did the service installer say 'Seventeen or Bust Service Installed' after you ran sobsvc -i?

 

[Overkiller]

after i run sobsvc -i nothing happens. but i provided the log up above:

[2004/05/04 10:07:15.640]: ** SB Client version 1.10+ **
[2004/05/04 10:07:24.812]: Parms retrieved: NumClients = 2, AffType = 0, WUQueue = 0, PeriodicRestart = 0, AutodialType = 0
[2004/05/04 10:07:24.812]: TrueIdle = FALSE, MonitorRestart = FALSE, StuckRestart = FALSE, KeepVisible = FALSE
[2004/05/04 10:07:24.812]: NormalizeXP = FALSE
[2004/05/04 10:07:24.812]: AutoRestart OFF

and it stays @ 900+ K cems/s consistently...color me confused

 

[MathGuy]

Did you perhaps run "sobsvc -i" without Administrative privileges? That's the only reason I can think of why the service might fail to install. I've never heard any reports of this before...

 

[Overkiller]

nope. there is 1 account on my pc and that is mine w/ full administrative priviledges....i also find it weird how the performance jumped on the 1 instance of SB after doing sobsvc-i then sobsvc-o2....

i'm very confused. anything else i can provide to help you out in the diagnosis (as you wrote the service installer )

thanks once again

 

[MathGuy]

Let's try this - fire up a command prompt, cd to "\program files\sb" (or wherever you installed the SB client) and run

sobsvc -v

This should print out the current version number and installation status.

If it says that it's NOT installed, then run

sobsvc -i

again and tell me what its response is.

We'll get this tracked down somehow...

 

[Overkiller]

this pops up:

[2004/05/07 05:15:44.583]: Parms retrieved: NumClients = 2, AffType = 0, WUQueue = 0, PeriodicRestart = 0, AutodialType = 0
[2004/05/07 05:15:44.583]: TrueIdle = FALSE, MonitorRestart = FALSE, StuckRestart = FALSE, KeepVisible = FALSE
[2004/05/07 05:15:44.583]: NormalizeXP = FALSE
[2004/05/07 05:15:44.583]: AutoRestart OFF
[2004/05/07 05:15:44.598]: ** SB Client version 1.10+ **


helped any?

 

[MathGuy]

That's what would have shown up in the log. What I'm looking for is what is displayed in the command prompt window after typing in the "sobsvc -v" command.

 

[Overkiller]

it pops up for a milli-second then disappears.

hence why i went to the log =/

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Overkiller
it pops up for a milli-second then disappears.

hence why i went to the log =/

Excuse me if this sounds dumb. I'm not trying to talk down to your level of skill or anything like that.

Are you typing it in a cmd prompt or in the run dialogue in the start menu? It sounds like it should be run in a cmd window, and I'm guessing it will output something to that window.

 

[Overkiller]

Make me sound however you want just help me fix this

i tried to run sobsvc -i.exe in command prompt but for the love of me i couldn't get it to work ( i was navigated to the directory too).

so yes i ran it in the run dialogue menu.

what is the exact command to run sobsvc -i.exe...

has it been that long since i've used a dos-like structure :|

 

[n0cmonkey]

Probably sobsvc -i or sobsvc.exe -i

I'm not sure, but I think the -i is just a command line option for sobsvc.exe.

 

[Overkiller]

^ neither work

 

[Confused]

OK, try doing this (i know it seems a bit "step-by-step", but sometimes that's what's needed by all of us to kick ourselves into gear )

Start -> Run, type cmd, press Return

When the DOS prompt opens up, type the following, pressing Enter after each line

c:
cd \
cd "Program Files"
cd sb
sobsvc -i
sobsvc -o2
net start "seventeen or bust service"

You should see two SB windows open up and go into your task bar


Garry

 

[Overkiller]

thank you confused

490K cems/s on 1.
470K cems/s on 2.

not bad for something else using 5-10% of cpu

 

[Allio]

Great rate there

 

[Overkiller]

now:

532000
499000



i love this machine