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eddyr
06-01-2008, 07:48 AM
Thought id say hi, started folding a few days ago, (the XS team ofc :yepp:)
Have my PC, and a few others folding at varying levels.

got a question though, whats the best way to configure the console client to free up cpu time when needed? (without shutting it off)
Reading through the folding forum it seems they suggest setting it to 'idle' @80-90%.

Am i right in assuming that this forces the console to effectivly pause when someone starts using it?
I had it set at 30% on the P4 3ghz HT, but there was noticable lag as it was always runing.
SparkyJJO
06-01-2008, 12:04 PM
:welcome:

Interesting that you saw lag, I had it on my parent's PC (A64 2800+ 512MB RAM) with it set to 100% and idle priority and never saw a slowdown. Same on the other PC that was a P4 2.8GHz non-HT. What else is running on there? It should by default give up the CPU super easy so that higher priority processes (which is pretty much anything) has first dibs on the clock cycles.
eddyr
06-01-2008, 12:36 PM
Its a 2 week old clean install, fully updated with anitvirus/firewall installed. Cpu usage is in line with what the console should be using. (its set at 40% not 30 which shows as 20% being used by fahcore with approx 75%+ idle)

Its only noticable when multitasking with a few windows open with IE and Office for example. Since i installed it my dad who is the main user of that PC said it had gone from v fast/responsive to having a slight lag on the day i installed it and it goes when i stop the service.
Would setting it to 100% pause the console totally freeing up the cpu when the PC is being used? Or does it only dial itself back to allow the higher priority app the cycles it needs and it takes the rest?
If its the former setting to 100% could be the answer.
SparkyJJO
06-01-2008, 01:05 PM
It dials itself back to free up the required CPU cycles for the higher process. Like if you run something that typically will take the CPU to 40% load, the FAHcore will then use the remaining 60%. The problem I ran into when trying a lower percentage is it would try and keep the CPU there, so let's say you have it set at 80% and that process that uses 40% comes along, the FAHcore will go to 40% for a total of 80%. It was more goofy when I did that, so I left it at 100% and it seemed to work better that way :shrug:

I'd try it at 100% and see if it smooths out any. How much ram do you have in the system?
Stijndp
06-01-2008, 10:16 PM
Only problem I have noticed is when you are using the auto defrag in diskeeper. It doesn't check what priorities certain programs have so it only sees that the cpu is using 100% and it won't start his progress.
eddyr
06-02-2008, 03:45 PM
Set it to 100% and does seem to be more responsive all day, weird :shrug:.

Though the 90% complete WU it was working on f'd up and started from scratch after i stoped it to change the config settings :(
SparkyJJO
06-02-2008, 04:24 PM
Set it to 100% and does seem to be more responsive all day, weird :shrug:.

Though the 90% complete WU it was working on f'd up and started from scratch after i stoped it to change the config settings :(

Yep sounds like the client's CPU settings getting confused a bit again. Sorry the unit got botched, unfortunately that happens at times.
coo-coo-clocker
06-02-2008, 04:35 PM
Welcome and thanks for folding with the team!!

Have you checked memory utilization? the fah client can chew up quite a bit, and well, we all know what memory pressure can do...
DAK1640
06-02-2008, 05:28 PM
Welcome eddyr & thanks for helping !!!:up::up:
p2501
06-02-2008, 11:50 PM
Welcome to the team eddyr! :welcome: Thank you for folding, and thank you that you fold for xs! :wtf:
eddyr
06-03-2008, 04:32 PM
cheers guys!

haha, a folding smiley!
hadnt looked at them before, theres crap loads. :o
Kingcarcas
06-04-2008, 08:20 PM
http://www.beerbrains.com/guinness.jpg
Beer, it's what's for breakfast :welcome:
coo-coo-clocker
06-05-2008, 05:14 AM
shamrock-shaped condensation!!
those clever guiness marketing people!
:toast2:
SocketMan
06-15-2008, 11:06 PM
Thought id say hi, started folding a few days ago, (the XS team ofc :yepp:)
Have my PC, and a few others folding at varying levels.

got a question though, whats the best way to configure the console client to free up cpu time when needed? (without shutting it off)
Reading through the folding forum it seems they suggest setting it to 'idle' @80-90%.

Am i right in assuming that this forces the console to effectivly pause when someone starts using it?
I had it set at 30% on the P4 3ghz HT, but there was noticable lag as it was always runing.

Welcome and get that 8800gt ready for the gpu2NV client;)
It might be a better way for you, should be more flexible that smp