can running seti and folding at the same time be dangrous?

woods

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I could not decide where this one should be posted so here it goes. will running both programs cause instablility or cause errors? I ask this because since Ihave been doing this IE will lock up sometimes. it did not do this before.

 

cw823

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Post once. Two threads in two topics is not the way we do it around here

 

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woods

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sorry, I just could not decide wich one to post in. Should I delete one?

 

TC

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More than anything it will just cause both programs to run very slow.

 

cw823

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woods said:

sorry, I just could not decide wich one to post in. Should I delete one?

Click to expand...

Um, too late!

 

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it shouldn't affect ur normal stability or crashing ur PC BECAUSE of running both 2 clients at the same time.

it seems like it's more ur PC's stability problem, nothing to do w/ both 2 clients.

 

rogerdugans

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It shouldn't cause any stability problems, and when I tried it there was no impact on my Seti times.....but Folding got almost no cpu cycles: the Folding work units were timing out and not able to be submitted.

Seti gets the cycles first and leaves none for Folding it seems.

 

Arkaine23

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split

v3 of the folding console allows you to set a higher priority so the Folding Wu's get half the cycles.

 

Gravity Man

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• Jul 8, 2002

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you can also lower the priority of SETI in either SETI driver or the task manager in windows NT/2k/XP.

 

rogerdugans

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I've tried this again- for the third time!
And once again the same conclusion is reached: Seti and folding do not get along well together! Seti, even at the lowest priority, will grab almost all the idle cpu cycles before Folding has a chance at them.

Another suggestion was made by a member of both teams: to try using a duallie and dedicate one cpu to each client: I am going to try this tonight and see how that works out.....

 

deez

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• Jul 8, 2002

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I also agree with these guys...SETI does a pretty good job of using all the CPU cycles and giving none to folding even if you set the priority higher for folding.