Windnoes Trix

[PoisonedPawn45]

holy shit!
http://www.orionmulti.com/products/specs_ds96
overclock that jinx! LOL we could get a grant for 100 of em. i say we start a donation collection and see how many we can buy

 

[Carnival Forces]

Cant you run XP in safemode with networking support to fold?

that's a good question, anyone know?

 

[AtomicMoose]

that's a good question, anyone know?

you should be able to...only one way to find out.

 

[theshadow27]

that's a good question, anyone know?

yes, you can! lol i even started this thread: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=900768
but i didnt know if it actualy helped. but it does run, and use 100% of CPU. but since theres no easy way to get VNC server to start in safe mode, i wanted to make sure it was worth it before i converted my farm

 

[Carnival Forces]

well, if someone is willing, do it and then see if there's any time difference per frame of the WU you're on...

 

[theshadow27]

*sigh* okay,

i guess ill whip out some graph paper and start countin...

seriously, i will, but i doubt it will be mesurable by the system clock's time stamp, which only goes to seconds.

 

[Carnival Forces]

just look at the FAHlog.txt file

it tells you when you complete each frame, so measure the intervals and see if it's appreciabely smaller under Safe Mode With Networking

 

[theshadow27]

okay, in normal windows, each frame was taking almost 10 minutes (9 min 55 sec, or so)
in safe mode, each frame took about 9 minutes (8 min 45 sec)
however, i have 59 prossesses normaly, and 17 in safe mode, so YMMV

this is "safe mode with networking"

EDIT: i think a real good idea would be instead of messing with safe mode, get a program like EndItAll to kill anything that needs to die, and start windows normaly. i can just imagine someone booting up a boxin and leaving it for a few days with that "are you sure you want to enter safe mode" prompt up and it not folding that woud be bad

 

[Carnival Forces]

okay, in normal windows, each frame was taking almost 10 minutes (9 min 55 sec, or so)
in safe mode, each frame took about 9 minutes (8 min 45 sec)
however, i have 59 prossesses normaly, and 17 in safe mode, so YMMV

this is "safe mode with networking"

EDIT: i think a real good idea would be instead of messing with safe mode, get a program like EndItAll to kill anything that needs to die, and start windows normaly. i can just imagine someone booting up a boxin and leaving it for a few days with that "are you sure you want to enter safe mode" prompt up and it not folding that woud be bad

bah, EndItAll does nothing for me (btw, that link is bad), all non-essential processes are already dead

 

[Carnival Forces]

..just went through the services (start / run / services.msc) menu and disabled everything i thought i didn't need....time per frame went from ~14 minutes --> ~ 8 minutes

 

[KodiakStar]

Thanks for the Update Carnival!

 

[Carnival Forces]

Thanks for the Update Carnival!

np dude

 

[KodiakStar]

You are a 1337 double poster too I must say. Great ++

 

[Kvothe]

K, I've done a little testing, and with a tinker, I ran windows with safe mode, command prompt only, and it cut frame times down from ~6 minutes to approx ~4 minutes. All in all, not a bad gain.

Edit: It appears that after normalizing for a few minutes that once back in Windows, it got down to around 4:10 per frame, just a shade longer than without anything running.

 

[Duster]

yeah but can i still dl my p0rn in cmd prompt

y not just run a stripped linux?? wouldn't that do the same thing??

 

[Kvothe]

That's looking to be the best route if any. There really doesn't seem to be, at least in my case, any advantage to running F@H in a different setup. I'd imagine if I did the math out, there might be some difference, but as noted earlier, not enough to make it worthwile.

 

[Duster]

depends on how lon gu run it

if u run it for 5 years with a small advantage it will make worth while

but what do i know? i still in bed

 

[Kvothe]

Ah but in five years, we'll all have flying cars and according to Moore's law we'll have ~120ghz computers, so the numbers won't matter!

 

[Carnival Forces]

wow, i just realized firefox sucks CPU cycles like a parisian whore! especially when viewing that newegg banner up top...it went to like 20% CPU usage!

so i downloaded opera 8 -- which (even when viewing the newegg ad) maxed at 3%

muuuuuch better...\\