View Full Version : i have some questions please
clintard
10-07-04, 12:28 PM
hello all, i have joined your folding at home team 32. my username is clintard_leonard . im not sure where to go to see my statistics i was wanting to know if i have this set up right for your team. also i was wondering if the fah program will interfere with my routine maintanence like defragging. thanks a lot
clint
Hey, and welcome to Team 32! First you can check out this page and input your username to see your stats, they update every 3 hours(3am,6am and so on).You will have to wait until you turn in your first WU(work unit) in order to make sure everything is good. Here is that link to the two stats pages.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=32&p=1 and http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userstats
Second, no, F@H will not interfere with normal operations on your computer. In fact, you will see no performance decline either. I am an avid gamer and have never seen a performance drop in either my games on-line, or the benchmarks that I run.
Again, Welcome to Team 32!
clintard
10-07-04, 12:52 PM
yeah it blows my mind how well designed the program is. i wish they would post the source code but that would give people a chance to mod it. it dosnt decline my performance at all either im still benching the same. my worry is that maybe i should shut the programs processes down when i defrag my hard drive because if u think about it the program will be writing and reading from it so wouldnt that interfere??
You can set when it will write to your HD. I set mine at 30min intervals, so as long as my defrag takes less than that it is all good.
The only time I understand F@H to read from HD is when you start it back up and must read where it left off. Other than that, I dont think you have to worry about it. Most of F@H is run off RAM and your CPU, not the HD.
seadave77
10-07-04, 01:43 PM
Well the client is set to write to the disk at 15 minute intervals I believe. I don't think it will hurt defragmenting. I have Diskeeper defrag my laptop at night while it's folding and I haven't seen any issues. It may have some problems if you're running Win98 though.
Clint
clintard
10-07-04, 03:18 PM
Im running xp professional. I defragged and it went fine so i wont worry about it, if i was to download the graphical client is that the screen saver? and would that slow down the actual folding? right now i just have it running in my processes. im currently living with my grandparents and i told them about folding, they both have computers that are going to fold for team 32, celeron 533 256ram and p3 1.0 ghz. not much but it will contribute. this is a very worthy cause and the goal dosnt seem as fatr fetched as the seti@home project. i was wondering what your adopt a rig program was all about, i have unlimited access to free ads in my towns newspaper and was thinking maybe i could get donations and start a farm of my own!! thanks a lot guys
clint :attn:
clintard
10-07-04, 03:18 PM
oh and i forgot to mention, what is heatware?
FizzledFiend
10-07-04, 03:24 PM
Heatware is like your e-bay rating, but is used on forums boards like here in our classifieds..lets people get an idea about your buying and selling habits...are you a good guy or a troll.
unlimeted adds uh? give us a bit to ponder this Idea we might have special use for your talent :)
heatware is a buyer/seller rating site.... kinda like the rating people have on ebay.
People that have bought things from you can give you a good/bad rating and/or a review and info on what they bought from you.
If you sell anything on the classifieds in the forums, most people will want to see heatware to make sure you're a good seller.
[edit]
Dangit, you beat me :D ^^^
OK. Glad to see your rig running good. I will try to answer your questions as best I can.
if i was to download the graphical client is that the screen saver? and would that slow down the actual folding? right now i just have it running in my processes
Yes, it will slow down the folding process. Which client are you currently using? The 'Wedo One-Click' is the prefered client with hardcore folders.
i was wondering what your adopt a rig program was all about, i have unlimited access to free ads in my towns newspaper and was thinking maybe i could get donations and start a farm of my own!!
AAR(Adopt-A-Rig) is a program by where people donate their extra or unused parts and OCForums puts them together and sends it off to someone to run F@H. You can donate either parts or money to the cause.
what is heatware
Heatware is evaluations for people who trade and buy on the internet. When you purchase, or sell to someone with Heatware, you can leave an evaluation of how the transaction went. The more good evals you have, the more likely people will buy and sell to you.
Hope that does it for you. If you have anymore questions throw em at us.
EDIT: You both beat me, but I did answer more of his questions. BTW, he did have more than just 'What is heatware?'.
clintard
10-07-04, 03:27 PM
Yes i am good friends with Bobby best, the owner of our town newspaper, the News Progress. He basically lets me put anything i want in which runs for a month in the classifieds for a month (12$ normally)
i live in Sullivan, Illinois, a town with around 5000 people
clintard
10-07-04, 03:28 PM
SORRY FOR THE SPAM!!! sorry but i also have another question and that is why i dont have the option to choose an avatar, your community here looks great and id like to get into this hardcore, thanks a lot
I believe you must amass a certain amount of posts before you can get an avatar. There are also other benefits as your 'rank' gets higher, such as at 100 posts, you can go into the classifieds.
Clean_Baldy
10-07-04, 03:56 PM
I believe you must amass a certain amount of posts before you can get an avatar. There are also other benefits as your 'rank' gets higher, such as at 100 posts, you can go into the classifieds.
I can't wait to get to 8 stars!!! That's when the new special forum becomes unlocked labelled "booty" You go in there, and put down your address and a time/date. At that time/date, a girl/guy comes to your house and does what you wanted in the post you put up! I'm envious of the 8 stars :(
At 4 stars, I only get the sloppy blowjob girl that comes around every once in a while, and shes so nasty, the last time, I told her to just go home.
I think I better stop :beer: in the afternoon...
:drool:
BTW, WELCOME!!! :)
yeah :rolleyes: no more JD until after your bedtime.... ;)
Supposedly there's another section floating around b/c I tried to access it through someone's link and I was denied access.... I have over 1000 posts so it must be quite a section.
Getting into the classifieds was probably the best rank change so far..... I've turned into a packrat for stuff I won't use :D
yeah it blows my mind how well designed the program is. i wish they would post the source code but that would give people a chance to mod it. it dosnt decline my performance at all either im still benching the same.
Well, technically it is the operating system's responsibility to determine which processes get to use the CPU and for how long. The program itself doesn't have to do anything except set itself to a low priority. I guess it helps if the program has a small memory footprint to minimize any swapping that might occur when switching processes, but I don't know that stanford went out of their way to optimize the memory footprint. If anything, I'd imagine they would optimize performance, which generally leads to larger programs.
You can set when it will write to your HD. I set mine at 30min intervals, so as long as my defrag takes less than that it is all good.
The client also writes to the disk on every frame completion, so if your frame times are, say, ~5 minutes, the client will write to your HD about every 5 minutes.
The client also writes to the disk on every frame completion, so if your frame times are, say, ~5 minutes, the client will write to your HD about every 5 minutes.
I would hate to be so blunt, but no sh*t!! I was trying to help the guy by telling him what I do in a certain situation. I dont need help with this program, I know it very, very well.
clintard
10-07-04, 10:04 PM
another question, sorry folks, but when i joined this forum i had to use my mediacom email account instead of my yahoo account clintard_leonard@yahoo.com i was wondering why they wont let u use yahoo email adresses? i think its handier since i use yahoo messenger and it instantly lets me know when someone responds to a post! which my other mediacom account dosnt hehe, thanks a lot
I'm not sure.... I wasn't allowed to use my gmail account either on the [H]forums, I think it said something about scamming or something like that. Oh well, I didn't like their forums anyway :)
BTW, you might not want to put your email out in the open like that.... IMOG posted something about people using programs that just scanned webpages for email to spam, so unless you potentially want to collect spam... ;)
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=136531&page=1&pp=50
specifically post number 8
I would hate to be so blunt, but no sh*t!! I was trying to help the guy by telling him what I do in a certain situation. I dont need help with this program, I know it very, very well.
Well, your statement seemed to be implying that if you set the checkpoint interval to a large enough value, then the client wouldn't write to the hard drive and interfere with the defrag. I was pointing out that that isn't necessarily the case.
I wasnt implying anything. Read it again. I said what I did and that I had no problems because the defrag would be done before it wrote to the HD.
Ok, anyway, my point is that with a fairly fast WU, for example frame times of 5 minutes, the client will write to the disk every 5 minutes, regardless of what the checkpoint interval is set to, and that a defrag may not finish before the client writes to the disk, not that it matters that much; defrag should be able to tolerate other disk activity.
clintard
10-08-04, 01:59 AM
:clap: break it up you 2 i get the point hehe, i have defragged with it running and it went fine im just owrrisome, hate reinstalling! hehe thanks everybody
Deathknight
10-08-04, 06:22 AM
Well, your statement seemed to be implying that if you set the checkpoint interval to a large enough value, then the client wouldn't write to the hard drive and interfere with the defrag. I was pointing out that that isn't necessarily the case.
I agree, the statement was pointless if that was not what was being implied. No need to jump all over someone for pointing out an oversite. Its all about the love (1VB)Seabee! :beer:
vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2012, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.