xp based, vmware and ubuntu for smp linux on a c2 8100, some questions

[levathar]

Hey guys.
I never tried linux and was incouraged with your sticky to install ubuntu unto VMWARE on this XP based laptop.
It is a Lenovo R61 with 2GBram and a core duo 8100.

I was folding SMP with xp client but read amazing ppd in the sticky thread...

I make run the VM with 1gb ram, it got the other 64 bit ubuntu (iso file name says amd64) and followed all instructions but...

A frame takes 32 minutes to go while 28 minutes in xp client.

Was not virtual machines suppose to improve ppd?

Thanks for any reply.

Lev

[Hack30]

What protein/project is it running and is it the same as before?

Different projects/proteins take diff times.

[levathar]

Ok I finally see the point...
GPU2 fold in windows THEN SMP fold in linux, because SMP in linux take 85% of the cpu power... but then again it would have to be vista.
whenever I run XP the GPU client takes one core for itself...

EDIT: I remember AMD64 cpu having a edge over intel chips in some projects, so maybe this is the case (sticky folds on a a64x2 +4400)

[ChasR]

Since the advent of Affinity Changer there is little reason to use VMware on a C2D. Production is so close to the same that it isn't worth the hassle and VMware uses more system resources and can't be set to idle priority, so it slows down some apps and games more than the Win SMP client run at idle priority.
At times, Linux WUs produce more ppd than Windows WUs, which could make it VMware/Linux SMP worthwhile. Other times, like now, Linux rigs are getting A2 core WUs that regularly hang at completion.
On a quad, you can make more production running two VMs on cpu cores 0-2 while running the GPU2 client(s) on cpu core 3. You can set the affinity and priority of the vmware-vmx.exe process and it will stick until the VM is restarted. I don't know of a way to make the affinity stick to the Win SMP core processes.