I want to change to large work units. How?

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited January 2005 in Folding@Home
I have 2 copies of folding 5.02 running on an Abit BP6 right now. I want to enable the option to download large work units.

But I couldn't figure out how to get back into that setup screen to do it. How can it be done?

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  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2005
    Are you running the console version? Over the last week or so I have become quite an expert in this area. :cool:

    If so, I may be able to help. I've already made every mistake possible so I can tell you what to do and what to avoid. :vimp:
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Yes, the console version. I wrote 5.02 in the first post.
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    go into your shortcut.
    add -configonly
    run it
    change your answer to the large unit question
    remove the -configonly from your shortcut
    run

    You will probably get one or two more standard units before they kick in.
    Do you want the real big ones? Add -advmethods to your shortcut and you will be ready.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Go into the shortcut? Is that the Start << Run thing?

    I'm running Windows 2000 Pro on this computer.

    Seems like there should be more steps to get to it somehow.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2005
    Tim wrote:
    Yes, the console version. I wrote 5.02 in the first post.
    There was a 5.02 graphical client as well, before it was replaced with 5.03.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Well, profdlp? You said you knew how to do it, are you going to tell me? I have the 5.02 console and Win 2000 Pro.
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Do you have a shortcut on your desktop or are you starting as a service?
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    stop the client(s) ...
    edit the client.cfg file(s)

    [settings]
    username=csimon
    team=93
    asknet=no
    bigpackets=yes
    machineid=1
    local=79

    [http]
    active=no
    host=localhost
    port=8080
    usereg=no

    [core]
    checkpoint=30
    ignoredeadlines=yes

    [clienttype]
    type=2
    nonet=yes


    change no to yes on the bigpackets line or add it where it belongs if it doesn't exist ...
    restart the client(s)!

    right prof? ;D
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2005
    csimon wrote:
    stop the client(s) ...
    edit the client.cfg file(s)

    [settings]
    username=scthoburn
    team=93
    asknet=no
    bigpackets=yes

    ...right prof? ;D
    With one significant change, yes indeed. Now I know your little secret. :vimp:

    Tim: My ISP is nuking all the email notifications from S-M about threads being updated. I am having to browse the site forum by forum and thread by thread to try and stay on top of things.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    profdlp wrote:
    Tim: My ISP is nuking all the email notifications from S-M about threads being updated. I am having to browse the site forum by forum and thread by thread to try and stay on top of things.
    mine is too!
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Csimon almost told me what I need to know. What proceedure to stop the clients is missing.

    I'm guessing I go to the folder that has each processors' copy of folding in it, but what do I do then?

    The list of files is Work, client.cfg, FAH502-Console, FaHCore_65, FAHlog, FAHlog-prev, My Folding, Queue, speed.emd, and unitinfo.

    I tried clicking on client.cfg, but don't know what program to use to open it with.

    How much memory should be in the computer to have 2 processors doing large work units? I have 256 MB in 2 128 MB sticks.
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited January 2005
    Most would recommend at least 512. I recommend a gig. My computer's working on two large wus and mem use for EACH is 100+ megs.

    But... You still didn't answer an important question. Are your running these clients as services or not? If you are, adding -advmethods will require registry tweaking.

    EDIT: I wouldn't recommend running two large units at once on only 256 megs unless your system is a dedicated folder. Things WILL slow way down. I noticed this before I upgraded to a gig on my HT P4 system.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Tim wrote:
    What proceedure to stop the clients is missing.

    What starts the client ...is it configured as a service?
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Yes, both are configured as a service that starts automatically when the computer is turned on. I managed to get Electron Microscope 3 working and monitoring both of them.

    If 256 MB isn't enough, then I probably won't do it, but I'd like to have the proceedure in case I do need it on another system.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited January 2005
    Tim, 256 MB isn't nearly enough memory to run big packet work, especially 2 clients at the same time. It will get severely laggy; I know this because I experiemented and tried it.

    Also, I would recommend not running the BP work on that BP6 because it will take 10 forevers for those celerons on that BP6 to finish any work. The BP work presently bieng dished out take 1-3 days on really fast machines right now and would take weeks on those celeries.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Not really, I have both Celerons overclocked to 600 Mhz, and they do fairly well. They have each gotten 4 work units so far, and they've taken 30-55 hours to finish each one. Of course, they've all been 25-40 point work units, if that white number to the right of the graphs in EM3 is the point value (is it?).

    I've got my Dell Latitude CPi-A366XT laptop in the refrigerator and folding also. Yes, in the refrigerator. I'm single and can do things like that. It's the only way to keep it cool at 100% CPU load.

    It has gotten 3 400 frame Tinkers and takes 14-16 days to finish one. That's slow.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Tim wrote:
    It has gotten 3 400 frame Tinkers and takes 14-16 days to finish one. That's slow.
    The intels generally don't fold tinkers well at all ...that's a job for amd. I typically try to get gromacs for the my p4's.
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