FAH4 Console version

gcstader

Is there any way to check the progress of a work unit while using the console version? Also, is there a way to send the program to the system tray instead of having it open on the taskbar?

Thanks
~Greg

TheSmJ

You can check the progress either by looking in the app's window, or by looking at the fahlog.txt file it creates in the directory. You can hide the window entirely using FireDeamon (which is what I use) or by an application called Tray It, which puts the app in the tray.

Straight_Man

I actually use the FAHlog.txt file most often even to check the workflow timings of the GUI Client process. Console window gets minimized when I use it, on my own boxes. I simply want more time slices for folding, less used by additional apps.

The trick is to not keep the FAHlog.txt file open in WordPad too long, Wordpad will not reflect changes, and having it open might keep client from timestamping entries right, though console and GUI client 4.0 will pend entries better than earlier clients did. I used to have the 3.24 client go to a FAHlog2.txt file when it could not get to the FAHlog.txt as it was "owned" by Wordpad while it was open. So, if I want to really study or annotate\commentate a log, I will do this:

Kill client (Quit or use CTRL-C in console Window.
Rename FAHlog.txt to another name, like FAHlog-Prev86-Barton.txt.
Restart client. In my case, about once a day I do this, and the client asnd core pair seems happier not to have to interrupt itself to rename a full log as FAHlog-Prev.txt also. And, I get the benefit of annotated back logs to see what really is doing what to folding. I have the P4 client logs intact from Feb 17 onwards (motherboard and CPU update froced an XP reload then), and the client logs on the Barton intact from Jan 3 onwards. ALL old logs sit in the Folding@Home folder, client and core ignore them, they are not coded to use them so long as they are renamed. When I go to clean old logs off of HD, I can save to floppy about four months of logs or more in -verbosity 9 (IE client talks a lot, it is verbose) mode on very fast folding boxes.

Now, open the log you just in essence took away from the client, peruse as long as you wish.

Oh, in this case, for a one-user box, the easiest thing is to have a shortcut to the Folding@Home folder on desktop. Then you get a one-click-folder-open. But, I am a process flow analyst (and a process flow MINIMALIST) by nature, so you might want to use something else like EMIII (Electron Microscope III) to get your workflow data from.

John D.

BlackHawk

Electron Microscope

KingFish

Yeah, electron microscope

Nice sig VoE. How many of them stats were from you killing me? I'm steadily knocking the rust off and I got BF:V now.

KingFish

mmonnin

1.) Open console, log file, EM3 all work.
2.) Tray it will work the best.