There are 3rd party tools like AFC which will make it easier for the gpu clients to work in paralell with other dc projects, and there is allot of information about this on the forums as well.RMAC9.5 wrote:Bruce and 7im,
I am new to Folding but I am also a DC oldtimer and some of what you say makes no sense to me. I am a dial up user and the fastest way for me to finish and return a WU is to allow me to cache ONE extra WU. For example, I have two ATI Radeon 3850 video cards which I recently bought for Folding. They take any where from 8 to 16 hours to complete a GPU WU depending on how many other DC processes are running in parallel. If I could cache ONE extra GPU WU per PC, I would configure these two PCs so that the video cards would run flat out and they would finish 2.5 to 3 GPU WUs per day. Currently, I can't/won't do this because I am not willing for both the video card and the CPU to sit idle for multiple hours per day. Instead of finishing 5 - 6 GPU WUs per day these two PCs finish 2 - 3 GPU WUs per day.
I also have 4 other PCs with empty PCI-E video card slots that could be used for Folding, but the management effort needed to make sure that each GPU folding run finishes in the morning before I go to work or in the evening after I come home from work is simply too great.
I run a single gpu and dual linux smp's in vmware, I never iddle, only the gpu has had the '24h pause' due to now resolved problems with the newest core's. What you're describing is not what should and frankly what does happen, you're having problems which 99% of the donor community does not experience. So what you need to do imho, is open a thread about your issues and ask for help, and not blame the project for your particular configuration problems.