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F@H Question

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MoFunk

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Since I am so new at this I want to ask a question before I go doing this blindly. I want to change my F@H account/name. I am running the command line with firedaemon. What is the best way to do this? Thanks.
 
Go into FireDaemon and stop the service. Then open up a command prompt and navigate your way to your F@H folder. Assuming you didn't rename the exectuable, type this in (minus the quotes) "fah4console -setup". That should reinitate the setup process, after you get everything changed just close the command prompt and restart the F@H service in FireDaemon. One bummer is that points aren't transferrable, but it stops the nonsense that went on in SETI when people would switch teams and carry all their points with them, throwing everyting out of whack.
 
Thanks MDE, that is exactly what I am looking for! That is nice about the points! That was one thing I always hated about seti.
 
Hey since you guys are talking about the CLI do anyone of you know a way to run F@H as a service without FireDaemon? I need to figure out a way to run this in the background with no signs that it is running except via the task manager. It's no problem for me to run it but curious users open up the GUI and shut it off.
 
Originally posted by: ICXRa
Hey since you guys are talking about the CLI do anyone of you know a way to run F@H as a service without FireDaemon? I need to figure out a way to run this in the background with no signs that it is running except via the task manager. It's no problem for me to run it but curious users open up the GUI and shut it off.
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here ya go
 
Actually when I typed in setup it told me that was wrong and it gave me a list, so I used config.....I forgot to mention that........😱
 
Originally posted by: brianp34
Originally posted by: ICXRa
Hey since you guys are talking about the CLI do anyone of you know a way to run F@H as a service without FireDaemon? I need to figure out a way to run this in the background with no signs that it is running except via the task manager. It's no problem for me to run it but curious users open up the GUI and shut it off.
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here ya go
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OK I just want to be sure I got this thing set up correctly as the last service installs I completed didn't send credit to any particular account due to a bad installer even thought I answered the questions correctly.

First question:
I input "Rebel Alliance" in the username field, will it automatically place the "_" in for me like the GUI informs me that it does upon installation?

TeAm number: Yeah I got that one!

Under core type I selected "Folding at Home" I assume this service installer works for other DC projects.

Under core priority I selected "Low" as I was assuming Idle would indicate it only worked with the system completely idle.

I left everything else on that tab set to the default values and since I am not using any type of proxy server I left all that information blank, I didn't know you could use a proxy for F@H.

Anyway enough highjacking MoFunk's thread 😱 but since this is where I got the link for the service installer (best one I seen yet too) I thought I would come back here and post my questions since I want to make absolutely sure we are getting credit for these. Oh how I wish there where a program like seti q for folding so I could see which IP's are sending in work....oh well.
 
I'm not sure about the behaviour of the CLI in relation to usernames with spaces... I assume it also supplies the underscore automatically. You could check the log (FAHLog.txt) to see what it prints out on startup to see if it's adding an underscore or not.

The thing where you select Folding@Home... it doesn't do multiple projects, at least not anymore. Selecting Genome@Home (aka GAH, your other option) would cause it to prefer G@H WUs over F@H WUs. However, now that Genome@Home is no longer operational, selecting G@H just makes the client prefer "timeless tinkers" - work units that effectively don't have a deadline. I think it automatically downloads 8 of them at a time, in case the network is not available.
 
Originally posted by: ICXRa

Under core priority I selected "Low" as I was assuming Idle would indicate it only worked with the system completely idle.
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With the default Idle selected, FaH runs as an idle process. It will use all of the idle cycles whenever there are any to use. You could be typing real fast and FaH would still use ~99% of the processor.

The main reason you might want to change this is if you also run seti at the same time, seti runs at low priority and if FaH is running at idle it would not get anything done.

At low priority, you might notice a bit of delay when doing some stuff because the processor will give some cycles to a low priority process. If I understand this correctly! 🙂
 
So low is better or idle? I don't run anything else on this box. I'll check the log and see if the underscore was put in. Thanks guys!!!
 
If you don't run anything else, just run it at idle; then it will never substantially interfere with performance of the system.

I used to see some slow-down of IE and MSWORD on an xp1800 system with F@H set to low (quit because my gf complained about me 'searching for aliens again'). I'd suggest idle unless there's a reason to change it.
 
What I was saying was I don't run any other DC projects on it. I was reading my post and that doesn't appear real clear, almost like I was saying the box doesn't do anything but fold which isn't the case.
 
Originally posted by: ICXRa
What I was saying was I don't run any other DC projects on it. I was reading my post and that doesn't appear real clear, almost like I was saying the box doesn't do anything but fold which isn't the case.
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Then definitely pick idle, so when you want to use it, F@H will get out of your way completely.
 
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