-advmethods screensaver

[entropy]

anyone know how you can use this flag with the screensaver? i can't seem to figure out where to put it

[TheGr81]

There doesn't seem to be any use for -advmethods anymore... I've dropped it, and so far have recieved nothing but gromacs WU's. ...Very low point production-y gromacs (nothing but p909's and p910's, and a single p924, crunching now)... It sucks, but maybe it's "just a phase". I don't really know anything about the screensaver, I've never used it. I went straight for a console and a graphical client, then dropped the GUI for another console.

The only argument I'm running is -local on each of my clients.

[entropy]

hm ok
what IS the -local switch? i've heard of it but idk what it does

[TheGr81]

idk either lol. But everyone here and the one site where they had a summary of all the switches (dunno where it is now) said that you need it for running more than one client on a single machine. (ie. Multi-processor boxes or Hyper-threaded P4 boxes.)

[entropy]

hm, i'm running two consoles as we speak, one is set to machine id 1 and the other is machine id 2.

[edcentric]

If you run a P4 you still want to use the -advmethods. You don't want tinkers and the flag improves you chances of getting gromacs.

The local flag is to make sure that the console looks at the config in the local file, no some other one. This is nice on boxes running many consoles. My dial up boxes each run 3 or 4 in order to make sure that they have work even when I can't get to them for a few days.

[TheGr81]

Not really, at least not anymore. It also increases chances for unstable WU's.

Read this (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showpost.php?p=134741&postcount=38).

[mmonnin]

Any commands/switches/flags will work for any of the clients...at least windows.