Athlon @ 1.0ghz

[freakcrap]

Anybody else running an athlon @ 1.0ghz? I think mine could be "dying" but I could be wrong. I have nothing but zonealarm and folding running on this machine and for protien 2564, its taking a total time of 137.5 hours. I rebooted twice over the duration of its folding and it still says the same time.... Is it just me, or is something wrong, I have never seen it take so long to finish a protien.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Fenris_Ulf]

Could just be a big protien. My P4 2.4 is chewing on one (don't rememer which) that's 10% done and estimates another 68 hours. An Athlon at half that speed would probably take about twice as long.

 

[KodiakStar]

Some of them just take a long time... be happy you dont have a 200+ hour one

 

[Shadowchild]

Be happy you didn't do what I did when I first started folding... turn on big units on a machine with low HD space. That big sucker took my P3 one day less than the deadline to finish. After that, no more big units >.>

 

[KodiakStar]

ouch that sucks!

 

[freakcrap]

Some of them just take a long time... be happy you dont have a 200+ hour one

My P300 is 16% done and has 620 hours left, lol


Thanks everyone, I feel better!

 

[KodiakStar]

dang which WU is it?

 

[freakcrap]

dang which WU is it?

300 mhz just in case you misread that, but its Protien 2564, hummm, wonder if I need to flag something somewhere, I really dont know much about the flags in the program...

 

[KodiakStar]

do you have timless WU's selected? that should help somewhat... 300 is a little slow to finish one on time

 

[freakcrap]

do you have timless WU's selected? that should help somewhat... 300 is a little slow to finish one on time

No, just have the console client running normally, do you know the flag to put on it?

 

[KodiakStar]

You can read through the faq's, but there is an option in the adv settings when you do the -configonly flag that says request only units without a time limit

 

[Kvothe]

This page on the Hardfolding website steps you through to it. Its under the advanced options, step number 14 as listed there.

 

[freakcrap]

odd, tryed it with the deadlines on and off twice for both, and it grabs protien 2564 every time from the server (I deleted the work folder info...)

 

[SulSeeker]

Got a athlon 1ghz @ 1.2ghz and it humms along pretty well.

Try bumping the speed on it... those old thunderbird cores get HOT at about 1.4ghz tho... don't push it if you got stock cooling.

 

[gnewbury]

Anybody else running an athlon @ 1.0ghz? I think mine could be "dying" but I could be wrong. I have nothing but zonealarm and folding running on this machine and for protien 2564, its taking a total time of 137.5 hours. I rebooted twice over the duration of its folding and it still says the same time.... Is it just me, or is something wrong, I have never seen it take so long to finish a protien.

Thanks for any help!

What is this "protien 2564" you are all talking about? I can't find it in listed projects.

When you "rebooted" did you do a clean shut down?
If not you might not be using the best algorithms, try setting the flag -forceasm.

And for the larger proteins I'm sometimes taking 200 hours plus on a 1Ghz base,

 

[SmokeRngs]

I run bigpackets on a Morgan core 1 Ghz Duron (the first one with SSE) and it will take a week to chew through a 600 pointer. All this system does is fold 24/7 (at least as long as the breaker doesn't get tripped at my friend's house since the motherboard doesn't have the option to power back on after a power outage).

I would not worry much about the old T-Bird. As long as the only thing it's doing is folding and it runs 24/7, it should be fine.