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Hopefully that 3 thread minimum will go away at some point, it is a workaround for a problem that can show up with the v7 client. If the client is configured wrong it tries to load a CPU WU instead of a GPU WU.

Well, it is not because you are running on a Mac, if that was the case I wouldn't be getting any WUs either. There is currently a 3 CPU thread minimum setting on most CPU projects though. So if your settings are for 2 threads, it is possible to not get any work at the current time. If that is not th...

Depends on the version and the WU request. I do know it was an issue with WU requests using the v7 client, especially requests that also required a core download where the server couldn't supply it would get stuck. Only a client restart would clear things up.

Yes, there was an effort to do that, but it didn't work very well when they used it in the development of Core_A8. The developer ended up choosing an alternate method of thread synchronization that worked better. Part of the reason was Core_A8 was also going to support ARM processors with big-little...

foldingmoon wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 7:36 pm I don't know how to determine the number of threads configured.

From this line in your log:
You have the client set to use 2 CPU threads. To work around a reported client problem most CPU projects were set to require 3 or more threads.

FAH GPU cores don't run anymore on Core 2 CPUs as it lacks some instruction set (SSE4.2) that is now mandatory. I'm not sure about CPU cores requirements (but you need more than 3 threads/cores), but it's definitely not a good idea to use such old CPUs anyway. What requires SSE4.2? Not Core_A8, as ...

The processor is on the edge of support, the highest instruction set it supports is SSE4.1 which the older CPU folding core still supports. How many threads do you have the client configured to use? Could you post the beginning section of your log and include a section with a WI request that fails.

I am less than 300 miles from Temple University, and my ping still is about 30 ms. I would need an IP in Sydney that would respond to a ping to get an idea of a "normal" ping for that distance.

The "No appropriate assignment" means there are no WUs available suitable for your system with the hardware available and client settings you have made. If this is your Raspberry Pi 5, that could mean that all of the WUs from the smaller projects are assigned or they are currently inactive.

On Ubuntu sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev For Nvidia? It's an RTX 4060 and would be crippled if it had to use OpenCL. In the past the installation of OpenCL and the CUDA support libraries were linked, both needed to be installed for folding to work. Unless there has been a recent change, the CU...

Now it is mostly those using USB-C, but before that several makers had options for power adapter wattage and their power management section would operate based on which was connected. This to my direct knowledge included some Dell models, many of the MacBooks, and I heard rumors of this also in some...

Power adapters shouldn't have any effect because the device always gets as much power as it wants, or it shuts down. The GPU isn't aware of how much power is available. Sorry, but that does not hold for all systems. Some laptops will run in a power limited mode when using a smaller power adapter th...

There is also a slider where you can reduce the number of CPU threads used for CPU projects if you wish. That is left up to you.

I have seen some WUs have variable frame times, though not quite by this much. But my experience has mostly been with CPU projects. There may be changes in the conformation of the system that requires longer computation time to complete a frame. Otherwise the only thing I can think of is something r...

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