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There is no cheaper unit of cpu as a free one. As I said, the power issue is only an issue when waste heat is inconvenient or unwelcome .

Anyway I’ll deinstall FAH and not sully the points table with my aged hardware

That depends. Computers are about as efficient as any other space heater. Old hardware may be slow but it can do more research than a heating element. If you live somewhere on the cold side the waste heat is welcome. Our central heating only went off two weeks ago, though it has been a poor summer i...

Thanks for the frank assessment. I wasn't aware of the web interface you linked to , I simply use the stats page. To find overdue WU's I have to look in the log files ia the client and scroll back, and this makes me wonder how many other people are unaware that they are returning units late ? I have...

Hi, I've been running FAH for a few years, mostly on 5 Macs , all pre 2014 (2 Pros, 3 minis). I sleep the machines during the day and they wake between 00:00-05:00 as my electricity cost is 1/5th the rate during those hours, designed for EV charging. This was working well until I'd guess a few weeks...

The previous script worked for me. Just got a 2014 2.6Ghx mac Mini running Monterey and couldn't figure out why it was so for FAH client to talk to FAHControl either network of locally. The earlier set of commands looks to have done the job. many thanks calxalot

Thanks Joe, how do you exclude the HT threads . Do you simply halve the number of cores defined in the slot , slider set to Light or is there some better way

Thanks

Thanks Paul, most interesting. In my case these mac servers are running only for FAH, and are headless , or at least as headless as I can make a Mac (no monitor attached. So FAH is not really competing with much other resource beyond the background processes of OSX, and iCloud sync is disabled . I h...

Thanks PaulTV, looks like that did it. I set the slot value to 8 rather than -1 , and , after it got a new WU, its displaying both top and process manager info as a 700+ percentage i.e FAH_core is running at 766% while under observation. Odd that on two apparently identical machines , one found 8 co...

Ah, thanks Paul, I'll leave it set and see what happens

many thanks. I tried setting the slot value to 8 explicitly, restarted but no difference. I'm actually starting to think its some weird problem with reporting on this particular mac. Via Activity Monitor or the top command ( then ocpu - order by cpu) it never exceeds 700%. However if in process mana...

Hi, I am running Fold at home 7.6.21 on a couple of 8 core Mac pro 5,1 machines running High Sierra. In FAH Control it reports that 8 cores are present, but on one machine when I look at cpu usage using top running in a shell FAHCore it never exceeds 700% cpu utilisation ? My belief was that on mult...

Thank you Jim.

many thanks Bob, I'll investigate 1650's and quieter examples.

Thank you, that's most helpful. You suggest that the my motherboard may be unable to support these cards anyway, which is worth knowing. it's this model

https://www.asrock.com/mb/via/775dual-vsta/