Folding WU Limit

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Folding WU Limit

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I know when your GPU gets a WU and started working on it you can set it to finish the current WU, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get it to take on a set maximum of WU (e.g. 2) in a night and then stop folding? I don't really feel comfortable leaving my rig on overnight.
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I don't think that is easily possible. The only option is to stop after the current WU.
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You could configure Windows/Linux task scheduler to send the FAH finish command automatically at x o'clock. So if you want to shutdown your PC at 12 pm and your work units take 2 hours to finish then maybe send the FAH finish command at 9 pm and a PC shutdown command at 12 pm.
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why the concern at leaving your computer on? It should be perfectly safe; worst case your computer heats the room it's in.
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And if you live in a cold region, that's bonus heating you get to help reduce your heating bill :P
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foldy wrote:You could configure Windows/Linux task scheduler to send the FAH finish command automatically at x o'clock. So if you want to shutdown your PC at 12 pm and your work units take 2 hours to finish then maybe send the FAH finish command at 9 pm and a PC shutdown command at 12 pm.
Interesting, I didn't actually think of this will see if this'll work for me.
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I'm mostly concerned because the power is frequently out late at night here and I don't like leaving my PC plugged into the wall when I'm out of the house or when I'm asleep. (note: I'm from South Africa, the power grid is not stable)
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Re: Folding WU Limit

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DieNand wrote:I'm mostly concerned because the power is frequently out late at night here and I don't like leaving my PC plugged into the wall when I'm out of the house or when I'm asleep. (note: I'm from South Africa, the power grid is not stable)
In that case, you could get one of those outlet timers, where it turns power on and off via a timer. They sell those at many aquarium and gardening stores.
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Jesse_V wrote:
DieNand wrote:I'm mostly concerned because the power is frequently out late at night here and I don't like leaving my PC plugged into the wall when I'm out of the house or when I'm asleep. (note: I'm from South Africa, the power grid is not stable)
In that case, you could get one of those outlet timers, where it turns power on and off via a timer. They sell those at many aquarium and gardening stores.
How will that help? Cutting the power by a timer is nearly as bad as by a power outage. The key thing is to arrange an orderly shutdown while the power is still up.
If you shut down while a WU is running, it will be saved and restarted when you start up again (hibernate is better than shutdown, because of quicker resume). You will lose some bonus points but the science still gets done. Just watch the estimated completion time and the deadlines, I think some projects have tighter deadlines now. Post here if that is an issue, it's the sort of feedback the project leaders need.
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