Folding - Hints & Tips

TeaLeaf · November 08, 2003, 09:32:41 AM

One incredibly simple tip to increase your folding rate is simply to leave your machine on *all* the time. You can see from the team score webpage how many processors (approx) people have folding for them and from this information you can guess whether or not they leave their PCs on overnight.

I manage to get my folding points from 5 machines that are on all of the time, with a couple of neighbour's machines that do a few hours a day. That gives me over 250 points per day.

Try it, you'd be amazed at how quickly your points rack up :thumbsup:

TL.

TeaLeaf · November 08, 2003, 09:37:06 AM

Not many people suffer from any lag or stutter when running F@H, but if you are one of the few who do, then just reduce the maximum CPU utilisation from 100% to 90%. This 'cushion' will solve the problem straight away.

TL.

TeaLeaf · December 23, 2003, 07:10:09 AM

As your Christmas present to the Folding Team, why not leave your PCs on 24/7 until the New Year? The added points will help keep us ahead of Tweaktown and help us break the 150,000 points mark before the end of 2003

Trust me, it works!

TL.

TeaLeaf · January 12, 2004, 10:32:21 PM

Everything above this post talked about version before 4.0.

With F@H version 4.0 there are some new flags added. Of interest to us in this thread is SSE enabling. If you want SSE enabled under version 4.0 and later then you need to add the flag -forcesse to your target line.

Existing users can remove the -forceasm flag that used to enable SSE under the 3.25 beta version.

If you do not do this then you will be getting 3DNow instead

TL.

Norm · January 18, 2004, 10:36:57 PM

Ok,haveing spoken to TL and swoop about various Linux options,we found something that may be of interest to a few people who run multiboard farms.
Obviously you could run F@H from a hardrive and O/S as normal,but this program allows you to run Linux with F@H client directly from a cd drive onto ramdisk,no hard drive needed.Not fully up to speed on it but will edit this post as and when I do.

Here it is here

FAQ here

Norm

TeaLeaf · January 18, 2004, 10:39:54 PM

:lol:

Sorry Norm, I edited the url in for you as you did!

TL.

Norm · January 18, 2004, 10:42:26 PM

No problem edit away :lol:

Gone_Away · January 20, 2004, 09:25:41 PM

Hey TL I get this in my Log:

Arguments: -forcesse

Warning:
By using the -forceSSE flag, you are overriding program
safeguards that monitor the stability of SSE
instructions on your system. If you did not intend
to do this, please restart the program without
-forceSSE. If work units are not completing fully,
then please discontinue use of the flag.

Dat OK?

TeaLeaf · January 20, 2004, 10:01:46 PM

Yep that's fine. -forceasm did the same thing but you never saw the warning. I have it running and it has not caused any problems for me on any of the rigs.

TL.

Rabbi Bob · June 06, 2004, 04:08:43 PM

TL,

What is the procedure for getting the Fold to start at boot up under Linux? I manage my linbox via ssh console 90% of the time, so I can start a fold, obv lose it when I close the session. I see you are using it under FCore.

Tnx

TeaLeaf · June 06, 2004, 04:46:10 PM

Using it is stretching it - I have it on CD ready to install on my Fedora machine once I get an internet connection at my new office. I'll let you know when I find out, or you can let me know if you find out earlier. I think Norm is also running F@H under Fedora so he may know already.

TL.

Rabbi Bob · June 07, 2004, 06:28:47 PM

Thanks. I tried...and ended up knocking three services offline, including Apache and Webmin...

<-n00b

If I can get this working, I'll have two boxes (1.0ghz Linux and a 1.2ghz Linux) to bring into 'the fold'.

Rabbi Bob · June 11, 2004, 11:08:50 AM

Via Webmin (http://localhost:10000)->Others:

Created a custom command: dMw Folding

Command: ./FAH4Console-Linux.exe -forcesse
Run in directory: Folding
Run as user: root

Use User's Environment

Command Outputs HTML: yes (so you can see it kick off)
{save}

Then invoke the command from the main custom page. It's not automatic yet, but if your box is stable, this should work well for the average user.

> ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1673 ? 00:13:24 FahCore_65.exe

Anonymous · January 09, 2005, 11:07:52 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by TeaLeaf@Nov 8 2003, 09:37 AM
Not many people suffer from any lag or stutter when running F@H, but if you are one of the few who do, then just reduce the maximum CPU utilisation from 100% to 90%. This 'cushion' will solve the problem straight away.

TL.
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How do I do this? F@H is running as a service and it warns not to start console from folder if service running.

TeaLeaf · January 09, 2005, 05:28:43 PM

Stop it running as a service, then start it manually with the -config flag appended and it will ask for the options.

TL.