Folding Forum

Could you please supply the system portion of the log plus several frames worth so I can manually calc frame times? There is a reason that you are getting such outrageous frame times and while it is possible that it is the WU it is unlikely. So I'd like to explore solving the problem before supplying you with the process to dump a WU.

What processor; how many cores; what video card -- Is it ATI? Are you folding 24x7 or do you turn it off for a significant amount of time? Are there other processes that are using up your CPU )Even a small amount can often drastically affect frame times. Are you using the estimate for TPF's and ETA's from the FAHControl? It is sometime wildly inaccurate but calculating from the logs or HFM.net tends to be spot-on.

Just for comparison. I5 2500K@4.40GHz (- smp 4); Win7/64b; TPF - 11+ min.; p.7029-7039.

I don't see anything incorrect about the configuration. Next would be task manager. Could you look at the process tab (all users) and sort by CPU usage.

Is there anything that is using the CPU (5-10% is plenty to affect SMP folding very significantly). Folding is highly synchronized and designed to suspend itself if the CPU is being used. If you have an application that is using a core then a thread will be suspended and the other threads will just sit there in a loop waiting for the suspended thread to be reactivated causing horrendous frame times like you have been getting. I've seen, for example FAHControl go into a situation where it is using a core all by itself (it is not supposed to) but it effectively killed SMP folding. In that case the solution was to restart FAHControl.

If you see something like that and it is intentional (i.e. you want that application to run) then the solution is to change your SMP slot to use only 6 cores (7 is a problem with some WU's). If it is unintentional then you need to figure out what that process is and does to figure out what to do about it.