What do you like about Win 7 over other OSes in regards to folding?Only way to fold my friend![]()
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What do you like about Win 7 over other OSes in regards to folding?Only way to fold my friend![]()
I looked in the bios, it was set to 1.26875, that is quite a drop from the 1.2 it was showing.
However, I changed it to auto and this.......
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This is horrid, I'm switching back, even if it takes forever to get in and out of the VM.
Edit, FAHMon had not had a chance to refresh the VM info, it was running though.
What do you like about Win 7 over other OSes in regards to folding?
What do you like about Win 7 over other OSes in regards to folding?
Oh definitely, totally agree. I fold semi-nekkid myself with permanently open boxen.I was talking about folding nekkid, but I do like 7,
You mean less resources consumed?As T4rd said, the memory allocation it the biggest part. It also seem more snappy with less resources available.
Now I'm curious. What stepping is your CPU? C0 or D0?
-haven't bluescreened for a loooong time here.
Someone remind me to do more research and try pushing my OC more.
You mean less resources consumed?
Wow, that's kinda scary if it was manually set at 1.26875v and CPU-Z was showing 1.2v at full load. I'm not sure what would cause that besides if it wasn't at full load and you had speedstep enabled so it lowered the voltage, but it was at full load so that wouldn't make sense. What mobo you have?
I keep waiting to try and get the large units, but no dice yet. I've entered a passkey and should be damned close, if not already completed 10 units that way. I'll keep watching.
But another one of my NotFred VM instances just quit yesterday after completing the unit and never uploaded it. By the time I noticed it it had been sitting idle for almost 8 hours and meanwhile the second instance finished it's unit, uploaded, and continued on.
I just tried to use -bigadv and I'm getting the same WUs as my normal "big" SMP clients.
I'm kind of new at this but installed the client, set as a service, added "-bigadv -smp 8" to the service in the registry. using win2k3x64 btw. any reason why I'm still getting the shity 1920point SMP Gromacs cores?
*edit* I just noticed that its only using 4 processes instead of 8. what the heck am i doing wrong?
Thanks
are you running native linux or Notfreds?
Notfreds wont do it.
linux you have to download the new executable.
damn it! I'm such a linux tard. maybe i can convert that vmware player 3 image linked above to esx
I used this guide to setup my -bigadv stuff. It has great links to all you will need.
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/607465-guide-vmware-3-0-8-core.html
Edit: Just noticed you are using ESX and not the player. Not sure how to make a player image run with ESX.
What WUs are you receiving in your SMP client? If you added the -bigadv flag, you should be receiving these special WUs from the start unless there is a setup problem.I keep waiting to try and get the large units, but no dice yet. I've entered a passkey and should be damned close, if not already completed 10 units that way. I'll keep watching.
Notfreds doesn't support -bigadv WUs yet. You will need to use another Linux distro for success with -bigadv.But another one of my NotFred VM instances just quit yesterday after completing the unit and never uploaded it. By the time I noticed it it had been sitting idle for almost 8 hours and meanwhile the second instance finished it's unit, uploaded, and continued on.
There is something wrong with your configuration whether it's hardware or client setup.I just tried to use -bigadv and I'm getting the same WUs as my normal "big" SMP clients.
I cannot advise you on proper service-based client installation since I never use this method, but see below...I'm kind of new at this but installed the client, set as a service, added "-bigadv -smp 8" to the service in the registry. using win2k3x64 btw. any reason why I'm still getting the shity 1920point SMP Gromacs cores?
If you used the -smp 8 flag, the client should use 8 cores whether you are running -bigadv or regular SMP. The only thing that will prevent this from happening is the lack of hardware resources, ie., missing cores. If this installation is in a VM, you will need to edit the *.vmx file to enforce the VM to recognize 8 cores. Otherwise, the most you will ever get is only 4 cores processing irrespective of the flags employed.*edit* I just noticed that its only using 4 processes instead of 8. what the heck am i doing wrong?
Why are you running 2 VMs? You get the same PPD as you would with one VM with the cores combined (from the two separate VMs) and it takes less memory that way.
Notfreds doesn't support -bigadv WUs yet. You will need to use another Linux distro for success with -bigadv.
Windows SMP clients plain suck in performance and PPD. Windows SMP is also far, far less stable. I stopped running it at the beginning of the year. Besides that, you are locked in receiving only A1 WUs, which complete in much longer time further reducing PPD. The main reason Linux SMP is better is due to the A2 WUs completing in much shorter time yet worth similar points. You will see even better performance if you switch from 2 Windows SMP clients to one Linux VM instead of two or more VMs even if you stay with regular SMP WUs.I'm really surprised by the performance. fahmon is calculating it at 6600PPD, while my other blade with two 4 proc smp processes (windows) are only getting 1400PPD each. That's insane.
I'm converting more copies of the linux VM to replace my windows VMs right now.
What CPU coolers for your i7 are you -bigadv cruching guys using?
If you mean the windows smp client, are you using the latest exe? Stanford has drop In parts for the smp program
If you mean otherwise, i'm not Much help on my phone
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