My F@H runs for hours with no progress!! Help!!

[Tical]

My F@H runs for hours with no progress, the program is running & it appears that it's working but the percentage never increases. Help me out here guys.

I have a P4 @ 3.3 GHz w/ 1 gig of RAM & cable internet.

[Cowboy Shane]

Are you running the graphical client of the console version? Did you add the -advmethods and -forceasm flags?

[NiTrO bOiE]

It may keep resetting due to your overclock. Run your chip at 2.66 and see if the percentage changes.

[Tical]

Holy crap Shane!!!!!!! You just made me feel like a ******. :D I have no idea what those are or do I've been trying to get help in the folding forum oh the F@H site & they had me put verbosity 9. So what should I REALLY put?? :(

I also did try running it @ default CPU speed overnight & nothing happened still 0%.

[Bigdogbmx]

What about reinstalling?

[deranged[OCAU]]

I'd suggest posting the log file, at least the portion which shows startup and the core initiation.

Sounds to me like it isn't picking up a WU at all. A quick way to check would be to pull up Task Manager and see if there is any CPU usage for "FAH_CoreNN.exe"

That will tell you if it's trying to do any work.

[Tical]

FAH_CORE65.exe is usin 99%of my cpu when it's running. Sorry about this wasn't sure what all to post:

[01:32:06] Loaded queue successfully.
[01:32:06] Initialization complete
[01:32:06] + Benchmarking ...
[01:32:10] The benchmark result is 7380
[01:32:10]
[01:32:10] + Processing work unit
[01:32:10] Core required: FahCore_65.exe
[01:32:10] Core found.
[01:32:10] - Autosending finished units...
[01:32:10] Trying to send all finished work units
[01:32:10] + Sent 0 completed units to the server
[01:32:10] - Autosend completed
[01:32:10] Working on Unit 01 [July 24 01:32:10]
[01:32:10] + Working ...
[01:32:10] - Calling 'FahCore_65.exe -dir work/ -suffix 01 -lifeline 748
'

[01:32:10] Folding@Home Client Core Version 2.47 (June 14, 2002)
[01:32:10]
[01:32:10] Proj: work/wudata_01
[01:32:10] Done: 22976 -> 142973 (decompressed 622.2 percent)
[01:32:10] nsteps: 5000000 dt: 2.000000 dt_dump: 250.000000 temperature: 298.000000
[01:32:10] xyzfile:
[01:32:10] " 393 p638_L939_K12M_ext
[01:32:10] 1 N 32.585258 -9.646281 47.501616 20..."
[01:32:10] keyfile:
[01:32:10] "parameters ./proj638.prm
[01:32:10] NOVERSION
[01:32:10] ARCHIVE
[01:32:10]
[01:32:10] cutoff 16.0
[01:32:10] taper 12...."
[01:32:10]
[01:32:10] - Couldn't get size info for dyn file: work/wudata_01.dyn
[01:32:10] Starting from initial work packet
[01:32:10]
[01:32:10] Protein: p638_L939_K12M_ext
[01:32:10] - Run: 69 (Clone 3, Gen 8)
[01:32:10] - Frames Completed: 0, Remaining: 400
[01:32:10] - Dynamic steps required: 5000000
[01:32:10]
[01:32:10] Writing local files:
[01:32:10]
[01:32:10] parameters work/wudata_01.prm
[01:32:10] - Writing "work/wudata_01.key": (overwrite) successful.
[01:32:11] - Writing "work/wudata_01.xyz": (overwrite) successful.
[01:32:11] - Writing "work/wudata_01.prm": (overwrite) successful.
[01:32:11] - Writing "work/wudata_01.key": (append) successful.
[01:32:11]
[01:32:11] PROJECT="work/wudata_01", NSTEPS=5000000, DT=2.0000, DTDUMP=25.000000, TEMP=298.00
[01:32:12] TINKER: Software Tools for Molecular Design

[deranged[OCAU]]

Is there anything beyond the last line of log file you posted?

You are using the Tinker core on a P4, not a good combination unfortunately. You would certainly be better off adding the -advmethods switch and folding Gromac Work Units.

Not sure how long each frame will take on that work unit you are doing but I would guess around 15 mins or so, which would equate to 1% per hour.

[Cowboy Shane]

Here is a thread (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=200362&highlight=advmethods+graphical) that tells how to enable advmethods with the graphical client. You really should read Wedo's One Click Install thread a little further down for the best method of setting up folding.

[new_novice]

that happened to me too, delete the folder, do a reinstall, everything is fine again.

[Tical]

Sweet I'm check it all out. You guys are pimps. Oh & yes after the last line it has the copyright credits(for Tinker I think) & the sigterm line, but that's it. I have tried reinstalling it & even redownloaded it to make sure nothing was corrupted. THX again guys.