Temp disable FAH

[peterjammo]

One of my laptops has temporarily got a single core cpu. I've removed all slots until a replacement 2c arrives, but not sure whether a new one will be added when I reboot. Since it's a single core, I presume it wouldn't try to download any wu, but I wanted to make sure. Any advice?

[Neil-B]

Hmmm ... would have suggested pausing the slot and then adding pause-on-start as true in the config ... but with no slot not sure what effect it would have ... have a horrid suspicion it would create a slot and run but someone who knows better than I will confirm if there is a way of getting this to work

[Joe_H]

The folding client will always have one slot defined, so will recreate at least one after a restart if your remove them all. I would follow Neil-B's suggestion if the laptop does not have a GPU slot.

[peterjammo]

It won't try to run a wu on a 1-c cpu anyway will it?

[Joe_H]

It will. In fact there is an installer bug that sometimes causes the request for the first WU to be for only one CPU thread. A recent enough CPU that is not restricted to low power mode will even finish most projects on one thread within the Timeout if run continuously.

[Neil-B]

I wonder if you can you actually create a cpu slot before rebooting and as part of creating it set/configure paused and pause-on-start as true when creating it? ... Not sure but someone will confirm

[Joe_H]

Or temporarily disconnect from the Internet and set the slot to paused after the reboot so it will not have a chance to download a WU.

[peterjammo]

Thanks folks. I disabled auto-connect on my network manager so I could reboot without internet connection, then rebooted to recreate the slot. Then added pause-on-start True. Sorted. Pause on start would have been really handy many times in the last couple of months. Think I'll add it to all my others too.

[Neil-B]

glad you got it sorted ... it wouldn't have crossed my mind to pull the network plug - must remember that for future