I am protein folding on my Q6600 computer which is overclocked to 3.150. I am using OpenSuse 11 and KDE 3.5.9.
The folding is slower than when I was running OpenSuse 10.3 and I have just checked and the cpu usage never goes above 50%. As the computer is only used for folding I need to set folding to use 100% of the cpu usage, but I do not see an option of doing this.
I have looked at the “client.cfg”, but see no reference to the cpu usage.
This may depend a lot more on your app than anything else. For example
a single-threaded process on a multi-proc system will never take 100% of
all the CPUs/cores no matter how bored the computer is. The BOINC
client I use is fairly smart and runs one process per core so
collectively I’m using my entire box as much as possible and get the
total number of results as high as possible, though each result takes
longer than it would if it could somehow receive all the power of the
computer at once.
Good luck.
tinca wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| I am protein folding on my Q6600 computer which is overclocked to
| 3.150. I am using OpenSuse 11 and KDE 3.5.9.
|
| The folding is slower than when I was running OpenSuse 10.3 and I have
| just checked and the cpu usage never goes above 50%. As the computer is
| only used for folding I need to set folding to use 100% of the cpu
| usage, but I do not see an option of doing this.
|
| I have looked at the “client.cfg”, but see no reference to the cpu
| usage.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
| Best regards Keith
|
|
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a google tells me that your computer is dual core…so, run two
instances of folding…(no, i don’t know how but i’d guess you can find
it somewhere near the cite just following)
Are you using a parellel version of the folding software? Did you compile for OpenMP or some flavor of MPI? Which software are you using? Perhaps the listserver for the specific package might have some insights.
Whatever the problem was seems to be my fault. I was running OpenSuse 10.3 for several months and for the final week I had been diligently keeping track of its folding times. I shut down folding and then copied the whole directory to my USB pendrive.
I reformatted the hardrive and installed OpenSuse 11. Once it was up and running I copied the folding folder back into my home directory and started folding again.
This was when it was patently obvious that it was very slow indeed. I have just deleted the folder, downloaded a new client from “Stanford”, set it up and it is now folding at the correct speed.
It is my fault for taking the lazy option and not doing it properly.