Re: Freezing with AMD and SSE? Please submit info!

Also, dumb thing but in XP this can happen:

When my client encounters a full FAHlog at time of completion or close to completion, sometimes the FAHlog.txt file gets hung along with a machine lock. So, Every few days my FAHlog.txt file becomes a FAHlog-Prev09 or so, with client off, and new FAHlog.txt is created. Box can do quite few work units in 3 days.... And client seems to not be able to save, rename old log file, and open new on the fly. Since I started manually renaming log files of over 3 days in age, no issues. Is file size or number of lines, not sure which as when it happens I get no rename to FAHlog-Prev of the FAHlog. Look for large FAHlog.txt files, expect faster boxes to do this more often than slower ones as they gen bigger logs faster.

Linux seems to do this less, for whatever reason.

If you see this only on boxes with Norton SystemWorks on them, try this:

Find folder with FAH in it.

Right-Click the Norton protected Recycle Bin Icon.

Click Protection tab.

Click Exclusions button.

Enter the path for the FAH folder, stick a - sign in front, and ** after path with \ at end of folder spec, so if I had my FAH stuff in c:\..\program files\Folding @ Home I wold stick in an exclusion line of:
-c:\..\program files\Folding @ Home\**
which would exclude from saving all files in the folder and any subfolder. I was getting huge amounts of "deleted" files kept in recycle bin, and the Barton box seems not to like a Protected Recycle Bin with over 1500 files in it of same name (FAHlog.txt). so, excluded whole Folding @ Home area from Protection.... FAH is not appending to log, it is doign something that results in anew copy for every entry. Codicil, empty normal recycle bin every once in a while also, please (every 2-3 days on a fast folding boxif you do not exclude FAH folder from being saved, or all txt files). It also has limits to how many files it can list.... Overflowing will lock box in part, usually at time the file that overflows it is added. Then FAH locks, box locks for real.... Defrag drive when time after emptying a recycle bin with 2K or so of file ENTIRES in it...

John.