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Battery power - or pause the fold

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gnewbury

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I have not seen any way to "pause" a fold except when I unplug my laptop, it goes on battery power, and it pauses.
I run systems on the edge and often want to pause a fold for a few minutes while Adobe loads, or something else needs a few extra cycles and fold does not release the cycles.
I'd like a software switch so I could mash the pause button, then mash the go button later.

Any solutions out there?
 
Are you using the console or graphical client?

On the graphical client you can right click on the systray icon and pause it.

 
What is this graphical client you speak of?

:)

No - I run console, especially on my duallies.

 
There is a pause (or maybe it's called suspend) in EMIII. I've never been able to get it to work, but I've never tried it on a local client either.

 
I'm sure the console supports pausing when on battery power. U should go through the configs and enable that then.
 
console has option to suspend on battery, option works well.
 
You could set it up as a service, and just stop the service either in the Windows service panel or by using the cmd scripts(which I forget at the moment).

 
marty9876 said:
console has option to suspend on battery, option works well.
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I know, all I run is console - but I don't want to unplug my UPS. I just want my computers to "think" they switched to battery so they suspend. I know Stan4rd won't care about it. I was just wondering if any one had found a way to trick it.

 
gnewbury said:
I know, all I run is console - but I don't want to unplug my UPS. I just want my computers to "think" they switched to battery so they suspend. I know Stan4rd won't care about it. I was just wondering if any one had found a way to trick it.

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Well u could go to services.msc and pause the work, but I don't see why do you have to do this as you're saying that the console wouldn't not give back cycles which I find a little hard to believe, are u sure that you have it running as idle and not on low?
gnewbury said:
I run systems on the edge and often want to pause a fold for a few minutes while Adobe loads, or something else needs a few extra cycles and fold does not release the cycles.
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Sorry, I don't know how else to help you. Hopefully there'll be somebody else that can.

 
Roman79 said:
There is a pause (or maybe it's called suspend) in EMIII. I've never been able to get it to work, but I've never tried it on a local client either.
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It is suspend and it is only to suspend the monitoring of a box that is down for some reason.
 
Write a batch file with the NET STOP "FAH command string", then another batch with NET START "FAH command string".
 
^^^ Little more info please. I tried this but couldn't get it to work. I just placed a Services shortcut on ym desktop so I can pause and re-start if I need to, but the batch file idea would be better.
 
Killer[MoB] said:
It is suspend and it is only to suspend the monitoring of a box that is down for some reason.
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Oh I see. That makes sense.
 
something like a Stop.bat file.

Contains:

NET STOP FAH502-Console

Then a start.bat

Contains:

NET START FAH502-Console

I am at work so I have no idea what the service command line names are. Just cut and paste them on to the end of the NET START/STOP command and save them in note pad as a .bat file. Don't use Word pad.
 
STOPPING is no problem - what I'm concerned about is the time between frames.
For instance - I'm running one that takes an hour and 4 min/frame, I yank the power cord on the laptop, do 5 minutes of work, plug it back in and that frame takes 1 hour and 5 minutes.
[17:32:54] Completed 4600000 out of 20000000 steps (23)
[18:02:54] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[18:32:54] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[18:36:29] Writing local files
[18:36:29] Completed 4800000 out of 20000000 steps (24)
[19:06:29] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[19:36:29] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[19:40:08] Writing local files
[19:40:08] Completed 5000000 out of 20000000 steps (25)
[20:10:08] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[20:14:50] + Running on battery power. Pausing work until computer is plugged in.
[20:14:51] Suspending work thread...
[20:19:51] + Off battery, restarting core.
[20:19:51] Resuming work thread...
[20:49:12] Writing local files
[20:49:12] Completed 5200000 out of 20000000 steps (26)
[21:19:12] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[21:49:12] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[21:52:50] Writing local files
[21:52:50] Completed 5400000 out of 20000000 steps (27)
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I'm not certain how much of a frame is lost by killing and restarting the process, but I was thinking this was more "elegant". Especially on the large proteins on my slower machines.
 
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