folding@home software

[phungilax]

does the folding@home software take up memory resources? i wanna do it and i think its a great cause. but i can't have it slow down my comp

[Ploaf]

I haven't noticed any problems from the folding client. It uses idle resources only and hasn't slowed my system down at all. I have not tried playing games while folding but that would probably be the only time I would stop the folding client given the way directx hijacks the system.

[William]

it slows down your boot time and yes, it will take some memory up as any open app will, but I have noticed no system performance decrease running it in anything.

[Lews]

On my windows 2k machine it is using about 4mb of ram. not bad considering my icq is using 13mb and outlook is using 10mb.

Like the others I haven't noticed any slowdown on my system from running the fah client.

[SickBoy]

I notice no slowdown even when playing games..... the idle priority thing seems to work pretty well.

Now if you screw with fah's priority.....

SickBoy