Increase your F@H PPD

[theAnimal]

Just ran across this at foldingforum. I was aware of it when running the Linux VM but apparently it is now also available on Windows. This will be of greatest benefit to those with slow connections (especially upload) and large WUs.

This is done with a program called Langouste, which makes a temporary copy of the client for upload only while terminating the upload of the original client thus allowing the client to download a new WU much sooner and cutting crunching downtime.

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11615

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the info theAnimal! 🙂

How long does it take to upload those bigadv WUs? 30 minutes+?

 

[GLeeM]

How long does it take to upload those bigadv WUs? 30 minutes+?

They are about 100 MB - so on my connection it takes about 2 hours.

I had tried Langouste on Windows 7 but didn't have any luck - it worked great on Linux/VMWare in Win7 though.

If you get it to work on Windows let us know. Because right now I am trying to catch when the WU finishes and am manually stopping it and restarting after a few minutes. When I do that it gets a new WU and uploads at the same time - takes two hours of time off for about 2,000 more points!

 

[theAnimal]

My upload is only about 13 minutes, but for me that is another frame. 😀

Used Langouste for my last completed WU and it worked perfectly on Win7, was crunching a new WU about 2 minutes after finishing.

 

[theAnimal]

My 2nd upload didn't work. Started Langouste again & 3rd upload was fine but 4th did not work. I think I'll check the thread at foldingforum.