SMP Running as a Serive - Pause before quiting

QCH

I'm one of those that dares to run SMP as a service and uses a dedicated user account permissions to get the darn thing to run on restart. Well... I've killed several work units because running as a service does not allow you a graceful way to shut down the service. So... today I launched "services.msc" and PAUSED the service. When that was done, I stopped the service and restarted. What did I find when I restarted...

[21:35:15] Completed 435000 out of 500000 steps  (87 percent)
[22:58:36] Writing local files
[22:58:36] Completed 440000 out of 500000 steps  (88 percent)
[00:05:27] Service stop request received.

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.


--- Opening Log file [December 11 00:07:27] 


# SMP Client ##################################################################
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                       Folding@Home Client Version 5.91beta5

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

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Launch directory: Z:\Folding
Service: Z:\Folding\fah.exe
Arguments: -svcstart 

Launched as a service.
Entered Z:\Folding to do work.

[00:07:27] - Ask before connecting: No
[00:07:27] - User name: qch2002 (Team 93)
[00:07:27] - User ID: 559FDECA514343A7
[00:07:27] - Machine ID: 1
[00:07:27] 
[00:07:27] Loaded queue successfully.
[00:07:27] 
[00:07:27] + Processing work unit
[00:07:27] Core required: FahCore_a1.exe
[00:07:27] Core found.
[00:07:27] Working on Unit 05 [December 11 00:07:27]
[00:07:27] + Working ...
[00:07:29] 
[00:07:29] *------------------------------*
[00:07:29] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[00:07:29] Version 1.74 (March 10, 2007)
[00:07:30] 
[00:07:30] Preparing to commence simulation
[00:07:30] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[00:07:47] - Looking at optimizations...
[00:07:47] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[00:07:47] - Previous termination of core was improper.
[00:07:47] - Going to use standard loops.
[00:07:47] - Files status OK
[00:07:56] - Expanded 2954948 -> 15229627 (decompressed 515.3 percent)
[00:07:58] 
[00:07:58] Project: 2653 (Run 21, Clone 178, Gen 18)
[00:07:58] 
[00:08:02] Entering M.D.
[00:08:15] Calling FAH init
[00:08:17] Read topology
[00:08:17] (Starting from checkpoint)
[00:08:17] Read checkpoint
[00:08:18] 0 steps  (88 percent)
[00:08:18] PC
[00:08:18] Writing local files
[00:08:18] Completed 443171 out of 500000 steps  (88 percent)
[00:08:21] Extra SSE boost OK.
[00:26:56] Writing local files
[00:26:57] Completed 445000 out of 500000 steps  (89 percent)

Yep, no crash!!!! Yeah. Now time to write a script to pause the service, stop the service and restart.

BTW... Running SMP on a domain PC with Vista.

Qeldroma

QCH2002 wrote:

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BTW... Running SMP on a domain PC with Vista.

Alright! Time to seek out new Vistas and conquer the rest of the domain ... Muhahahahaha!