Folding Forum

I dont know what to suggest. The results are already, presumably being bzipped, maybe a look into 7zip is in order.

For me im more after rate limiting for broadband users.

v00d00 wrote:Also it would be even nicer if it downloaded the new work unit first, then sent the old one, so it didnt waste 15 mins of folding time prior to getting something new to process. Unless my idea that this was a multi-threaded client, is wrong, in which case it probably cant handle doing two thing simultaneously.

An interesting tidbit: this is has already been partly implemented. I've had a few occasions where the upload of a WU has frozen (probably because of the bittorrent traffic) and FAH is just sitting there for hours doing nothing. When I restart FAH then it downloads a new WU, starts processing and only then uploads the completed WU in parallel. So the client is perfectly capable of doing two things simultaneously.

I agree that lot of folding time is wasted waiting for the upload of previous WU to finish. Majority of the donors probably have DSL or Cable where download is 8+ times faster than upload. Furthermore, a new WU is usually 2+ times smaller than the completed WU. So downloading a new WU first would not add considerable delay before the finished WU reaches the servers.