Turn off auto-fold

[Leonetienne]

This just occured this morning when i thought "imma do some CPU-intensive work today. But since my GPU is chilling, lets let it fold".
So i started up folding at home, and boom, CPU and GPU got a job assigned that had to be completed within 4 days. What the fuck?
Can i turn this shit off? Can i start the client without involuntarily beginning folding on all slots?

[Rel25917]

You can add the option pause-on-start true under expert tab extra client options or under specific slots.

[Leonetienne]

You can add the option pause-on-start true under expert tab extra client options or under specific slots.

i've added it, thanks.
But why the hell would a basic feature like this be not just hidden, but straight out only accible if one knows what option to add? It's not like there's a tickbox

[PantherX]

For majority of home users, folding on the CPU with 100% usage will not have any noticeable impact on their daily use applications. I would suggest that you try it out on your system and see what happens. Since folding runs at the lowest priority by default, it shouldn't have any impact on most applications. The only area where it can use contention is when you're running another CPU application that is FPU intensive. In that case, pausing the CPU Slot or reducing the CPUs allocated to the Slot might help.

[bruce]

The logic goes something like this: Why would somebody install Folding@home if they didn't want to Fold? ...So it should start automatically. The default is to run at the lowest possible priority so it shouldn't interfere with their foreground activities.

[MLCRIP]

wait... what if i want to increase folding priority? would it force to high priority if i set it at task manager??

[bruce]

Higher priority does not mean "faster" If there are several tasks that are ready to be processed, the OS will choose by priority but it still runs at the same speed. Your foreground tasks get processed first and when they have to wait for you to move the mouse or for your ISP to deliver something from the internet, FAH can use everything else.

FAH is designed to use 99% of your CPU so if FAH is given a high priority, everything else stops and waits for it to finish. That makes no sense.

What are you running that you want to only be processed when FAH has nothing to do? Maybe build an index for your disk files -- which you really don't need anyway. Maybe download Windows_Update files, which can wait many, many hours.

[PantherX]

In addition to what bruce mentioned, please note that changing process priority can have detrimental experience on the system and/or applications if incorrect settings are applied. Moreover, when you get a new WU, the priority would reset to the default which is either idle or low.

[bruce]

You can choose either idle or low in the slot configuration if you have a good reason to have one slot shut out another slot. <core-priority v='low'/> is higher than the default of <core-priority v='idle'/>

As has been said, be very careful.