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FAH: Welcome new members!

GLeeM

GLeeM

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keen, soni, Slocketman, & Moltres

Welcome to TA Folding@Home 🙂

If you have any questions or need any help, just ask!

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GSmith, welcome to the 100K Club 🙂

Pokey_TA is next, one more WU!

Electrode, welcome to the 75K Club!

buddry, welcome to the 25K Club!

wisc, welcome to the Top 100!

Kilroy, welcome to the 10K Club!

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Looks like less than a day and we'll be passed 🙁
 
Welcome! 😀

:beer: or :wine: if you're over age (from somebody else, because I can't legally serve it), or root:beer: if you're not. 😛
 
Welcome!

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how much memory does your system need to do the BIG WU's?

Is there a way to edit this once it has been set up to NOT download these and change the config to download the big WU's with the latest client installed and running as a service?
 
Welcome to the new folks. 😀

Thanks GLeeM. 😀

Congratulations to the MM's. 😎

For what it's worth, I put pencil to paper 😕 and it looks to me like OCers are averaging about 260 points a day per active user while we are averaging about 240. (approx) So not only do they have more folks crunching, each one is producing a little more on average.

But I think we are still doing a great job.

:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: ICXRa
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how much memory does your system need to do the BIG WU's?
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The client must report at least 240MB.

I guess Linux reports about that if you have 256MB in box.
 
If you are running WindowsXP, you probably want to have >512MB so your other stuff will run OK when F@H swipes 105MB for a big WU

I have a TOTAL of 385MB comitted right now with browsing, outlook, Infrastructure and a big WU

-Sid
 
Originally posted by: Insidious
If you are running WindowsXP, you probably want to have >512MB so your other stuff will run OK when F@H swipes 105MB for a big WU

I have a TOTAL of 385MB comitted right now with browsing, outlook, Infrastructure and a big WU

-Sid
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I agree, 512MB on a windos mochine that does other stuff.

I also have several with only 256MB, (XP and 2000) but they are dedicated crunchers and aren't used for much else.
 
Great thanks for the replies!
I have installed this on several machines many of them only crunching away.
1.2 Ghz machines with 256 to 384 MB of memory doing nothing but F@H and have installed the service set to not accept big wu's. Change?
On 2.4 GHZ workstations with 512 MB set to not accept them because they are used frequently throughout the day, i.e. outlook, word, excel....the ususal suspects, but they are idle outside of normal daytime business hours. These have since been upgraded to a gig of memory! Obviously I should change these but how? Can I edit a setting in the config the client to accept the large WU's or do I need to unistall and reinstall the client.

Sorry to sound so lost but after runnng seti for so long now it just seems seti is more set it and forget it where f@h has more options and I just haven't read enough to know which is better for what box!
 
Originally posted by: ICXRa
Great thanks for the replies!
I have installed this on several machines many of them only crunching away.
1.2 Ghz machines with 256 to 384 MB of memory doing nothing but F@H and have installed the service set to not accept big wu's. Change?
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Sure, they should be fine.
On 2.4 GHZ workstations with 512 MB set to not accept them because they are used frequently throughout the day, i.e. outlook, word, excel....the ususal suspects, but they are idle outside of normal daytime business hours. These have since been upgraded to a gig of memory! Obviously I should change these but how? Can I edit a setting in the config the client to accept the large WU's or do I need to unistall and reinstall the client.
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First, shut down the service, then run the F@H client from the command line with -configonly to set the allow large WUs (>5MB) in advanced options, then use the following instructions to add the "-advmethods" option to the service:
At this time, the only way to add flags to the service is to edit the registry entry for that service.

1/ Shut down that instance through the Services manager snap-in
2/ Run regedit and go to key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service name> and edit the entry ImagePath, adding whatever flags you wish to the end. Exit regedit.
3/ Re-open the Services manager snap-in, and verify that your changes appear there, and then restart the service.

NOTE: Registry editing can be dangerous if you do it wrong, although the above is pretty straight forward. Use this procedure at your own risk!

Some methodology of entering the flags at service install time has been requested for the next maintenance release of the client.
Sorry to sound so lost but after runnng seti for so long now it just seems seti is more set it and forget it where f@h has more options and I just haven't read enough to know which is better for what box!
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F@H has been extremely set-and-forget for me (other than occasional monitoring via F@H LogStats), once I got it set up the way I like. 😉
 
Wish I had all the answers for you.

I would run BigWUs on the 1.2 Ghz rigs that do nothing but FAH. Instead of ~60 points per day you will get ~120 or better. 🙂

I don't know how much you would notice BigWUs on the 2.4Ghz rigs. Try one and see! I suspect that the apps you listed would run just fine unless the files you work on are unusually large.

I wish some who knows would post, but I think you have to stop the client and re-config it to accept BigWUs. You also need to add the -advmethods flag. To do that I think you have to edit the registry.

I saw a link to the directions not too long ago. Help!

EDIT: 😕 there is the help, even before I got this posted 😕 Thanks J
 
Thanks again for the additional input!
I'll start working on reconfiguring some of these boxes.
 
Okay all done! I am curious to see the increase in production!

Thanks again for the help!
 
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