1 hour and 5 minutes per frame on project 772?

DanG

For an A64 3200+ with 1.5gb of ram, does that seem incredibly slow to anyone else? Or is it just the crappiest WU in the history of WU's? That works out to 231 points per week. This rig should be doing close to 200 points per day, right?

This is part of the folding log.


[00:11:33] Writing local files
[00:11:33] Completed 400000 out of 1000000 steps (40)
[01:15:27] Writing local files
[01:15:27] Completed 410000 out of 1000000 steps (41)
[02:19:21] Writing local files
[02:19:21] Completed 420000 out of 1000000 steps (42)
[03:23:15] Writing local files
[03:23:15] Completed 430000 out of 1000000 steps (43)
[04:27:11] Writing local files
[04:27:11] Completed 440000 out of 1000000 steps (44)
[05:31:05] Writing local files
[05:31:05] Completed 450000 out of 1000000 steps (45)
[06:35:44] Writing local files
[06:35:44] Completed 460000 out of 1000000 steps (46)
[07:40:26] Writing local files
[07:40:26] Completed 470000 out of 1000000 steps (47)
[08:44:45] Writing local files
[08:44:45] Completed 480000 out of 1000000 steps (48)
[09:49:04] Writing local files
[09:49:04] Completed 490000 out of 1000000 steps (49)


The heaviest gaming I've been doing lately has been some Super Mario 3 java roms with IE. There's nothing else going on that would explain this that I can think of. No spyware, no viruses, etc.

FoldingAddict

You probably know this already, but have you tried restarting the client? Sounds like SSE is disabled for one reason or another.

~FA

Leonardo

Folding Addict took the words right out of my mouth. That's waaay too slow unless you are running an old Athlon or PIII.

Thermalfish

2.0GHz G5 PPC is heaps slower than that...

[02:28:20] Completed 5000000 out of 50000000 steps (10)
[05:00:26] Writing local files
[05:00:26] Completed 5500000 out of 50000000 steps (11)
[07:32:48] Writing local files
[07:32:48] Completed 6000000 out of 50000000 steps (12)
[10:05:23] Writing local files
[10:05:23] Completed 6500000 out of 50000000 steps (13)
[12:37:04] Writing local files
[12:37:04] Completed 7000000 out of 50000000 steps (14)
[15:07:41] Writing local files
[15:07:41] Completed 7500000 out of 50000000 steps (15)

Is there something I should be doing in configuration? Or does this look sorta normal. (forgive this folding newbie)

FoldingAddict

I'm not really sure how well PPC chips fold SSE units...so I can't really say. But that is damn slow.

~FA

bothered

One of our PCs runs the same chip. My son plays 'Garrys Mod' which often crashes so he has to press the restart button. This turns off SSE and gives him folding times like yours. Restarting through the start button enables it again.
You don't say which WU this time is on but with SSE he gets around 40 mins/frame for a 600 gromac.

Datsun-1600

Try reading this and set flags to suit, at the end there is a program to add flags to a service.

Datsun 1600

Ultra-Nexus

Either way, these 772´s and 773´s are the crappiest WUs of all... dang!

DanG

I tried restarting the service, tried stopping it and deleting all the cores and still had times of over an hour per frame. Something "happened" (like my finger slipping and hitting the delete key) to the files in the work directory and now it's working on a 2412 at 32 minutes per frame, so all is better.

Ultra-Nexus

Post your fahlog.txt. Hopefully we can tell whats wrong...