Problems Folding on Dual G5

[obviouslytom]

First time poster.....long time lurker

I have been helping out and folding on my dual G5 at work, and so have a few other people as well. The problem that I am having is the fact that over a 3 day period, it will only do, maybe 40% of a protein or whatever. Also, it doesnt even take 1% of the cpu. Is there anyway on a Mac, to speed it up? Because at least for the next few weeks, I have quite a few extra CPU cycles I can spare

 

[OSUguy98]

Is there anything else stealing cycles? I'm not a Mac folder, so I'm don't know alot about that client.... but I'd assume that you can throttle CPU usage, right? did you limit it to 1% during the config?


Keep on Folding!!

 

[obviouslytom]

Nope, there is nothing else really stealing cycles. I sometimes sit here and watch the process monitor and just can't figure it out. Oh well I suppose, at least its working away on it

 

[magnusvir]

if you are doing console, just use -configonly flag and check to make sure proc usage is at 100%.

 

[obviouslytom]

what if i am running it in the Graphical mode? Anyway to change it on there?

 

[Duster]

i know nothign about macs

but if u run a dual shouldn't u run two instances? or is that just for windows?

might check stanfords forum too... maybe more mac folders there that could help??

 

[OSUguy98]

I'm assuming that you can run the graphical client with the configonly flag (by making a shortcut and adding "-configonly" to the path)... but I know nothing about the Mac version or MAcs in general....

Or you could just pick up the concole (text only) MAc version here...


Keep on Folding!!

 

[Duster]

check this out

it might help

and

now i don't have a dual nor a mac so i don't know if this is along the lines u are looking for but just thought i would look for ya

 

[KodiakStar]

That is what this team is all about... Looking out for each other. Good work Duster.

 

[Duster]

lets see if it is what he was wanting or if it helped any

 

[obviouslytom]

Thanks for the help, running the text based one is finally using about 40% of my cpu's now

So now I can really start folding hard

 

[GwilyaGwees]

So now I can really start folding hard

Uhmmm, it should be type 'folding [H]ard ..............
Glad to see you getting that Mac thing working [H]arder!

Ciao for now ....
GwilyaGwees