Question about v7 expert settings

[DarkFoss]

I've been looking at various threads and just want to make sure. I have in V7: next-unit-percentage 100 and pause-on-start true set. From what I gather these settings will be copied over to the new beta client but are they currently supported options? Do they actually work?

Nothing worse than seeing the clock started on the next work unit especially on the cpu side when the TPF can be in excess of 20 minutes.
I dual boot so there are times I don't want the client to download actual work because of system update.

[Joe_H]

As best as I can tell, the default for v8 is to download after 100% and the WU is completed. I don't have next-unit-percentage set so my v7 install was using the default 99%. So in my v8 log it shows the WU reach 100%, the various result files get saved and the folding core is shutdown. Only after that does the client request a new WU, approximately 3 seconds after reaching 100%. At that point the client is simultaneously downloading a new WU and packing up the result files to be uploaded. Sometimes the download finishes and the new WU start processing before the upload of the previous WU starts.

When I tested on an earlier version of the v8 client the pause-on start worked. I have not tested it on recent versions, but the regular pause is persistent across reboots.

[calxalot]

Most v7 settings are not supported in v8.

Currently imported are
"user", "team", "passkey", "fold-anon", "on-idle", "key", "cause", "cpus"

[DarkFoss]

Thank you for the quick reply. I'll install the beta and give it a shot. I'm curious to see how it handles the new hardware.

[calxalot]

There are a bunch of settings that are not imported, but are used directly from config.xml.

These include all the log settings, verbosity, allow, deny, http-addresses.

[calxalot]

You can see everything with

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fah-client --help

On Windows, I think that’s

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FAHClient.exe --help

Some options are probably internal things you should not change.

[DarkFoss]

Thank you for the extra info my only concern was the 2 options I posted. Both options seem to be working fine, I think for a beta the client is performing great.
I was able to configure a bios profile for folding using the asus oc wizard set the cpu to a steady 3.7g. According to Ryzen master all the voltages are staying in the green. The v8 client gave 14 cores to the cpu 1 for the cpu and one left for the system, the v7 client used 15 cores plus 1 for the gpu leaving no core for the system. Dropped about 100w used when folding on both the cpu and gpu.

I like the separated logs makes it much easier to read through. The log does seem to cut off after upload I am not longer seeing the actual credit from the wu.

[calxalot]

With the v8 debug build you will see complaints at the start of the log about any unrecognized options.