Cant' changing affinity when running as a service.

[Joeteck]

When you run it as a service there are options that are removed.

1. The ability to tell the core & console to use only CPU 1 to do the processing.
2. The ability to tell it how much CPU to use.

I use my work computer to fold, but I have the other core doing nothing most of the time, so I have it fold now with a 100% CPU. Its an 805 Oced to 3.3Ghz. Needless to say, when running as a service, feature are removed. I can't tell the service to use only one core...

Can we get this fix?

[pscout]

Windows manages the usage of the cpus. There is no need to use affinity for the folding service.

On your dual core you can run 2 instances of folding and they will both run 100% when you are not using the machine, even for just a few seconds.
Since folding runs at idle priority, it will just used any otherwiize unused cycles on your cpus.
The only thing it does not release is its memory but as long as you have enough, you should not notice it unless you have programs for work that need a lot of memory to perform well.

[Joeteck]

Windows manages the usage of the cpus. There is no need to use affinity for the folding service.

On your dual core you can run 2 instances of folding and they will both run 100% when you are not using the machine, even for just a few seconds.
Since folding runs at idle priority, it will just used any otherwiize unused cycles on your cpus.
The only thing it does not release is its memory but as long as you have enough, you should not notice it unless you have programs for work that need a lot of memory to perform well.

cool...There is a setting to set the usage of ram. I set it for 256MB.

[harlam357]

cool...There is a setting to set the usage of ram. I set it for 256MB.

Only on the 5.04beta client. 5.02 lacks this setting. Also, I think this is just what is reported to the Stanford assignment server. Most if not all big WUs have ~100MB footprint, save the old QMD. So even two big WU instances wouldn't use 256MB total. But unless you can report a higher amount of memory, say 512MB or better, I believe obtaining big WUs from the assignment server is slim to nil. Stanford wants to leave your computer usable and make folding a "transparent" experience that will likely go unnoticed. This is a good thing. ;)