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the web control slider is fairly crude medium only knocks one thread off the cpu usage (one more will have been allocated to server the GPU) ... using the advanced control and setting a specific count for the CPU slot will give you more control ... you can configure the slot to use whatever count you wish to load the machine as you wish ... best to avoid primes 5 and above (or multiples) ... Your logs look as if the AS is lowering the slot down to 9 from the medium power default of 10 ... if you are trying to lower the load on you kit 8 might be good or even 6.

That will give the number of threads that fah will use ... anything else running on your kit can also load the cpu.

A suggestion to the software developers for the next version of the FAHControl: Radio buttons to select the power setting (in 10-25% intervals) instead of the slider bar. With independent controls for CPU and GPU.

Paul

I would like to discuss the slider:

If you are set on Light, you will not fold on the GPU and CPU folding will use 50% of your CPU (6 cores in your case)

If you are set on Medium, you will fold on the GPU and CPU folding will use n-1 cores of your CPU (11 Cores in your case. 11/12 of the CPU looks a lot like 12/12 of the CPU)

If you are on Full, you will fold on the GPU and CPU folding will useall n cores of your CPU. (in your case 12)

Now the modifiers, if you have a GPU and you do, then one core is reserved for that.

Due to an issue with Prime numbers and their factors some numbers of core are never used (7 and 11) effect your CPU. and others may fail (5 and 10 may effect your CPU)

So it is that your PC is using 9 cores on both Full and Medium.

18:13:53:WU02:FS00:Running FahCore: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FAHClient/FAHCoreWrapper.exe" C:\Users\seaso\AppData\Roaming\FAHClient\cores/cores.foldingathome.org/win/64bit-avx-256/a7-0.0.19/Core_a7.fah/FahCore_a7.exe -dir 02 -suffix 01 -version 706 -lifeline 10568 -checkpoint 15 -np 9

I read -np 9 as number of Processers = 9, some times it is -nt 9 where I read Number of threads = 9

18:13:53:WU02:FS00:0xa7:Calling: mdrun -s frame38.tpr -o frame38.trr -x frame38.xtc -cpi state.cpt -cpt 15 -nt 9

For better control, you'll have to use FAHControl.

psaam0001 wrote:A suggestion to the software developers for the next version of the FAHControl: Radio buttons to select the power setting (in 10-25% intervals) instead of the slider bar. With independent controls for CPU and GPU.

Paul

This may sound like a good idea, but it suggests that the GPU can be managed in 10-25% intervals. That's simply not possible. A GPU is either on or off. The third option is to run only if the system is idle which effectively prevents any screen-lag introduced by the GPU from bothering you.

To manage a CPU slot perhaps you would accept something that looks like this:

Your CPU supports N threads how many would you like to allocate to FAH:
(N-1), (N-2), ... (0)

That option is already easily available in FAHControl
FAHControl + Configure + Slots + (select the CPU slot) and adjust the number near the top of the next screen.

I'd go w/On/Off buttons for each GPU slot. As you are correct on the fact that a GPU is either using 0% or 100% power.

Paul

Again, that's possible using FAHControl

Right-click a GPU in the Folding_Slots subwindow in the middle of the screen and select whatever option you might want for that GPU: Fold/Pause/OnIdle

WebControl was specifically designed for beginners who are not interested in excessive details. FAHControl is designed to adjust anything you want to change. Making WebControl able to manage more features isn't going to happen.

Ok.... I figured that out.

Paul.