Carrot and Lex duel for the million

delanvital · March 06, 2009, 11:35:54 PM

Carrot is putting out 2,500 a day, Lex 4,300... but Carrot has a very wee lead on points. So far Lex will reach the 1,000,000 4 days faster than Carrot ... the race is on :woot2:

DuVeL · March 07, 2009, 12:13:16 AM

Very nice guys, keep it up.
Bets are on.

OldBloke · March 07, 2009, 12:33:02 AM

That's close

Whoever crosses the line first - gratz to both of you for folding so mightily.

Jabbs · March 07, 2009, 01:28:15 AM

Fantastic folding - I'll be watching...click the link in my sig for more info :boxing:

kregoron · March 07, 2009, 02:25:21 PM

You go gals! gogogo !

Snokio · March 07, 2009, 04:31:35 PM

I can barely do 250 a day :blink:, am I doing something wrong here?

Carr0t · March 09, 2009, 12:18:08 PM

Depends what sort of PC you're folding on. I'm very aware of my power bills at home, so I don't fold there at all. At work, I have 2 systems running 24x7 (more or less), both relatively high end Core 2 Duo's running the Linux SMP core, which aren't heavily loaded by any stretch of the imagination (1 or 2 firefox instances, 10-15 xterms, mostly ssh-ed into other servers where I do all the *real* work, and not much else). I have to turn folding off whenever I take the lappy out to a job tho, otherwise the battery lasts about 45 mins

Lex is getting so high because he also/instead runs the graphics processor folding core, which pushes out *far* more than the CPU can manage. Unfortunately, while the 8600 in my work box could fold quite reasonably, there isn't a GPU folding client available for Linux. I did have a look at how to get the Windows one running under wine, but it was just waaay too much faff to be bothered, especially as i'd probably have to do it all over again every time there was a kernel update.

delanvital · March 09, 2009, 12:22:59 PM

Quote from: Carr0t;267526I have to turn folding off whenever I take the lappy out to a job tho, otherwise the battery lasts about 45 mins

You do know that you can set folding to automatically suspend while on battery? Works fine in Windows.

Carr0t · March 09, 2009, 12:58:47 PM

Quote from: delanvital;267530You do know that you can set folding to automatically suspend while on battery? Works fine in Windows.

I run it on the command line in a terminal. Just as easy to ^C it

delanvital · March 09, 2009, 07:11:58 PM

Quote from: Carr0t;267540I run it on the command line in a terminal. Just as easy to ^C it

...but then you have to start it again later :bleh:

delanvital · March 09, 2009, 10:14:53 PM

The gap is closing - the difference between Carr0t and Lex, in reaching the million, is down to 1 day and 10 hours

Anonymous · March 09, 2009, 10:39:39 PM

Well done you guys, keep up the scrap in the true dMw way

Sparko · March 09, 2009, 10:50:03 PM

this is actually quite dramatic, is there a trophy for the winner :narnar::woot2:

Carr0t · March 09, 2009, 11:11:13 PM

Quote from: delanvital;267600...but then you have to start it again later :bleh:

Up, Enter. No biggie

I just dislike having unnecessary services that run at boot time. There are certain things Linux doesn't do very well, such as battery management and disk I/O. If i'm running folding at all it grinds my entire system to a halt if I try and start a VM, for example, so I like the quick and easy method to stop and start it and check if it's running at any given time, given that there is no handy GUI client or tray icon or similar for the Linux version.