TeamHaiku screaming ahead!

Yes, i see that you're producing more power all of a sudden ;)

if it's running Windows, read the readme.txt that comes in the SoB directory - it tells you how to set it up as a service (recommended, I use the -k option to have it restart every time I login)...and how to configure it for multiple CPUs (including HyperThreading!)

Each CPU will end up running a separate version of the SoB client - crunching a different k/n combination.

There's also some funky stuff you may have to do in the registry to set up each cache setting...

My HyperThreaded P4 3.4ghz machine is running at 100% CPU and crunching just under 1.7 million cEMs/sec.

If you're running it on BeOS/Zeta on the other hand, I can't be of much help :(

did you end up using the -o2 commandline option with the sobservice?

shouldn't matter what version you're running - SOB actually detects and runs on multiple processors on it's own -- but if you have any version of XP, you should see 2 processor graphs in the "Task Manager" if you have HT turned on.

Here's some steps:

First with the client running, configure it how you want it (don't select auto-start with windows btw - I also recommend "low" priority rather than "normal" - trust me) Now CLOSE down the client before doing the next steps.

Next, from a commandline run sobservice -i in the SB directory (to install the service)

Then run sobservice -o2 (this detects CPU count/affinity using SB's built in logic and sets the number of "cache" registry entries that it will start up with)

I also recommend running sobservice -k to have it restart each client when a new user logs in - this way the icons re-appear in the system tray for each visual indication of what's going on (otherwise it's just running under the "SYSTEM" context with no indication that it's running other than a slow machine)

Then you can go into your services and "start" the service (right-click on my computer, go to "manage" and locate "Seventeen or Bust" in the list of services there)

It should automatically start up one client for each logical processor... and you'll see each processor graph in the task manager running at 100% :D

now you can go into your registry and see the various cache keys it's created for each k/n combination:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LhDn\sob

hopefully that does it for you

you can also manually run multiple clients, by setting up multiple cache keys in the registry and altering the config\ClientKey to each separate cache key before running sb.exe -- that way when you run sb.exe manually each time, you can control which cache key it uses from the registry...(good if you want to manually start a copy to finish a k/n combo that didn't finish before) each instance remembers which cache key it's using until it terminates.