erik

I'm using standard F@H clients. Each one crunches away on it's own work-unit. When you have a Core2Duo machine, you have 2 CPU's. When only one F@H proces is running, load will be 50% overall, because one F@H proces only uses one CPU at the time. This can easily be seen with Taskmanager in Windows. It will show each F@H proces using just under 50%. On Linux with one proces running your load-average will go just above 1 (on an otherwise lightly loaded machine), and with 2 processes to just over 2. The command "top" will show each Fah_Core proces using just under 100% (of one CPU). I am not using the SMP F@H client, or not in SMP mode anyway. On Windows, you need to use the console clients to be able to start 2 processes. Or at least 1 console and 1 graphical I think. Both need their own directory. The first time, you need to start the second proces with -configonly, and give it machineid 2 or something, then really start it (as a windows service). Maybe you need to manually edit the machine=2 in the client,.cfg after the -configonly. I don't remember exactly. It is in the F@H FAQs somewhere. Maybe the old version 5 FAQs as SMP was not available with version 5. This is when I started folding (back in 2007 I think). I started using 2 processes: 1 per core, and I simply have not gone to SMP, although I have started using version 6. I just kept the old setup I used with version 5. On Linux I have created 2 users: folding and folding2, with different homedirs. And installed the binaries in each I also have 2 stop/start-scripts to be placed in /etc/init.d/. I cannot upload them, but can sent them with PM for anybody interested.

I have several machines running folding: 1) my computer, a new machine with AMDs 7750's, running a folding proces in each core and with big WU sizes (I have 4Gb RAM in there, so there is room). This one is running 24/7, using Linux clients on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit. 2) the computer downstairs my wife and kids use. This is a 3 year old machine with Intel Core 2 DUO 6300 processors, running a folding proces in each core. Normal WU sizes (machine has only 1 Gb RAM). This one is not running 24/7, but something like 16h/day, using Windows clients (on XP SP3). 3) my old computer running as XDMCP display for a virtual machine (VirtualBox running Vista on PC 1) ). This "display only" machine is a HP Vectra VL400 with a PIII, 1GHz and 512Mb RAM. This one is running one folding proces 24/7 using a Linux client on Ubuntu 9.04 32bit. 4) one PC at my parents in law. Also a dual core machine. Running Windows clients (on XP SP3), not running 24/7 but running regularly. I do not know the CPU types on this one. Erik.

Well, I joined folding because of the mention on the Hak5 show. So I did it with the Hak5 team. I'm proud to be in a Hak5 team. I have nothing with MintIRC. So, I'd like for a Hak5 team to return to folding. Preferably with all points we worked to hard for in the past. If that does not work then with a new team. Preferably the new team (with the old point or not) has to be controlled by one of the Hak5 crew so a unwanted name-change does not happen again. But if need be I'll create a new Hak5 team and ask the hak5-crew to mention the team-number change on the show to win as much people over.

Hi Matt, Please also give me a heads-up when you get the Hak5 name back, either with the old number or when a new team is created. Also, a mention on the show would not be bad, certainly if a new team is created and we need as much people to yoin it to start it up the ranks again! Erik.