miranda822 wrote:Thanks for your help. I went through the steps, and it's not getting quite that much on average (mid 80s to early 90s), but it's using the majority of the CPU time. I had the SMP set to -1 by default, and the Resource Monitor says it's using 6 threads. I tried manually setting it to thus, but it wouldn't let me because the smp in the WU's description is smp:2.
I didn't know if the error was a related issue or not, let alone that there was a program upgrade available. Should I quit the program and upgrade, or will I lose my current WU?
OK, I would say:
1) Keep on folding, do not quit the program.
2) OK, mid 80s to early 90s is enough to severely slow down your SMP folding slot. So, set your SMP slot to use two (2) less than the actual number of cores in your CPU. The current number of cores being used shows up in your log file, when a new 0xa4 WU is started:
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07:18:14:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Project: 8028 (Run 2164, Clone 1, Gen 39)
07:18:14:WU01:FS01:0xa4:
07:18:14:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Assembly optimizations on if available.
07:18:14:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Entering M.D.
07:18:19:WU00:FS01:Upload complete
07:18:19:WU00:FS01:Server responded WORK_ACK (400)
07:18:19:WU00:FS01:Final credit estimate, 1311.00 points
07:18:19:WU00:FS01:Cleaning up
07:18:19:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Mapping NT from 4 to 4
07:18:20:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0%)
07:20:52:WU01:FS01:0xa4:Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1%)
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Mapping NT from 4 to 4' means 4 cores, so you would set your SMP slot to use 2 cores:
- In FAHControl, you must be in either the 'Advanced' or 'Expert' mode, selected from the dropdown menu at the upper right
- Click 'Pause' in FAHControl, and wait until all slots show Paused
- Click on 'Configure', and select the 'Slots' tab
- Click on the 'smp' slot to highlight it, then click on 'Edit'
- In the 'SMP' part of the 'Configure folding slot' window, edit the 'CPUs' to be 2 cores
- Click on 'OK', then click on 'Save'
- Click on 'Fold', to get the folding started again
That should improve the folding performance for the SMP slot. Please let me know if this makes any improvement. Thanks!