Hello everyone
Fiddled around with my system in my free time in the last week or so. Everything is getting setup back the way I wanted but I installed the console version of the folding utility again and had a few questions. I'll read through the faqs now that I have more time, but if there are quick answers on the forum, that would be sweet too.
1. Once its running as a service how can I determine how well things are running? Just open the unitinfo.txt and read the results there?
Mine has:
Current Work Unit
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Name: p3040_supervillin-03
Download time: February 23 17:18:16
Due time: April 17 17:18:16
Progress: 23% [||________]
2. Once completed, is this considered 1 work unit?
3. I'm running a single core with hyperthreading, so I'm told the 50% CPU utilization is normal. At this rate what it downloaded looks like it will take a day or so to complete. Is there any way to benchmark its progress vs other systems, so I know something isn't horribly misconfigured and slowing things down?
I'd appreciate any thoughts!
peace
How can I pull up console work status
get a util, that the standard approach?
Just downloaded FAHMON, I'll try to set that up for details on this console version of F@H.
Should I be concerned about nothing be uploaded until its 100%? I guess as long as it's saving progress I won't lose much with a power failure or crash.
Should I be concerned about nothing be uploaded until its 100%? I guess as long as it's saving progress I won't lose much with a power failure or crash.
I can't help you with the running as a service as I have never ran that way. As long as the client is recording checkpoints it will return to the last saved checkpoint (normally). 
I always set my checkpoints to 10 minutes that way I will not lose to much folding time in case of a power outage, etc. They say you lose a little on your PPD when you save too often but I always felt it was better to lose one or two seconds per work unit than to lose up to 30 minutes or so of folding with a power outage.
If you know your rig is stable be sure to set the forceasm flag so if you do have to restart, SSE etc. will be enabled.
Best of luck.
Paul
I always set my checkpoints to 10 minutes that way I will not lose to much folding time in case of a power outage, etc. They say you lose a little on your PPD when you save too often but I always felt it was better to lose one or two seconds per work unit than to lose up to 30 minutes or so of folding with a power outage.
If you know your rig is stable be sure to set the forceasm flag so if you do have to restart, SSE etc. will be enabled.
Best of luck.
Paul
appreciate it, thanks for the details
Hey thanks Paul, I'll look into how this is coming back up to make sure that forceasm? option is enabled. I agree with you completely on the saving tradeoffs!