question about small folding WUs

[Nightbird]

-got my response, thanks guys, now die thread die ^^ -

Hi guys,

I noticed after getting some WUs that take half the time of P6701s that they improved my PPD by 30% according to HFM.NET. Considering that P6701s are under 10MBs, which falls in the normal sized WUs, to avoid them I had to pick small. I've selected small for now just to see if this works, but it'll be a whole day before I finish my current P6701. I was wondering, 1) Is HFM accurate, and 2) what kind of WUs are there for "small"? Could someone link me if there is a nice chart somewhere? Tried searching but too many threads pop up for WUs.

I run a Q6600 @3ghz btw, doesn't OC higher on my MB.

Thanks!

 

[Axdrenalin]

HFM seems to be pretty accurate, for all intents and purposes. I'm afraid that I don't have any insight into your second question, though. Also, and I know this isn't an answer to your question, but for some reason I'm thinking that I read about others who have used the "small" parameter and were still getting 6701's.

 

[Tobit]

The work unit size setting in the client configuration doesn't always seem to work as intended especially with the still fairly new A3 SMP WUs. I really don't think "size" plays any role anymore when the SMP2 client is involved. However, on the classic client side (uniprocessor), it still plays a role for those who have limited memory.

Hopefully this is one of the issues that will be fixed with the new v7 client whenever that happens.

 

[nitrobass24]

Also, and I know this isn't an answer to your question, but for some reason I'm thinking that I read about others who have used the "small" parameter and were still getting 6701's.

Exactly

You will still get them as long as you have the -SMP flag.
The logic behind this is if you have a 2+core machine your system will easily handle a 10MB file.

The Small configuration is really only applicable to non-smp WUs.

 

[Nightbird]

Thanks for the speedy responses, feel free to post if you know more though!

 

[sirmonkey1985]

Hi guys,

I noticed after getting some WUs that take half the time of P6701s that they improved my PPD by 30% according to HFM.NET. Considering that P6701s are under 10MBs, which falls in the normal sized WUs, to avoid them I had to pick small. I've selected small for now just to see if this works, but it'll be a whole day before I finish my current P6701. I was wondering, 1) Is HFM accurate, and 2) what kind of WUs are there for "small"? Could someone link me if there is a nice chart somewhere? Tried searching but too many threads pop up for WUs.

I run a Q6600 @3ghz btw, doesn't OC higher on my MB.

Thanks!

the small/medium/big thing really doesnt do anything. use to back in the day but not anymore. now everything is flag based. so as long as you have -smp on there you will still get the WU.

 

[Nathan_P]

I read somewhere on FF that the smp client is hard coded to Big, so it doesn't matter what you select you will still get any SMP WU.

 

[mplee]

I read somewhere on FF that the smp client is hard coded to Big, so it doesn't matter what you select you will still get any SMP WU.

I remember seeing that too, but I don't think that's really the case at least when you have -bigadv in there also. When bigadv first came out for Windows, I added the flag to a machine without changing anything else. I wasn't paying attention and I also had the small parameter set on that machine. The log gave an error....something to the effect that the packet size was too big when it was trying to get a bigadv WU. Changing the small parameter to big, fixed that.

 

[Nightbird]

P6701 is at 98% now, whew. I'll post what I get next. (small selected in options)




edit:

Nope, as expected, still got a 9.1MB P6701 file. Let thread die

 

[Nightbird]

I haven't gotten a 6701 for 3 days now with the small flag, anyone getting it with normal or big? It could be availability, you get small when it is available, and bigger ones otherwise. We'll see.