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OneMacGuy · Jul 5, 2003, 09:09 PM

If you are running the CLI clint as a service under WinXP and you are forced to restart the computer, does the client quit gracefully and then restart where it left off or do you lose all stored data since last upload?

Is there a utility to see the progress your CLI client has made when it is running as a service?

Thanx!

Shaktai · Jul 6, 2003, 05:01 PM

Check out the utility in this thread:
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthr...;threadid=3439

I think it will monitor a service. It only monitors one client at a time though.

kdfold is another that will monitor F@H and dFold, and can monitor multiple boxes at once. Don't know if it will monitor a service though.

OneMacGuy · Jul 6, 2003, 07:20 PM

Originally posted by Shaktai:
Check out the utility in this thread:
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthr...;threadid=3439

I think it will monitor a service. It only monitors one client at a time though.

kdfold is another that will monitor F@H and dFold, and can monitor multiple boxes at once. Don't know if it will monitor a service though.

Thanx! That certainly answers one question nicely. It does monitor DF as a service, but it can mess up the client easily too. If anyone else uses DF as a service with a program like FireDaemon, just download it, unzip into the directory of you DF client and run it. Just use the Progress tab or you will stop your client and force a service restart. It did do it gracefully though and did not lose my accumulated work!

Scotttheking · Jul 6, 2003, 07:36 PM

Don't use firedaemon with DF.
Go to the CLI, then change dirs to wherever DF is installed.
Do 'foldtrajlite /install'
Then go start the service. It's got a native service install.

OneMacGuy · Jul 7, 2003, 06:06 AM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:
Don't use firedaemon with DF.
Go to the CLI, then change dirs to wherever DF is installed.
Do 'foldtrajlite /install'
Then go start the service. It's got a native service install.

Thanks, Scott. You seem to have the best answers on performance tuning. I learned the Firedaemon trick from you when I was doing SETI. I will go back and redo those machines with Firedaemon now.

Welnic · Jul 7, 2003, 01:20 PM

Originally posted by OneMacGuy:
If you are running the CLI clint as a service under WinXP and you are forced to restart the computer, does the client quit gracefully and then restart where it left off or do you lose all stored data since last upload?

Is there a utility to see the progress your CLI client has made when it is running as a service?

Thanx!

I'm not sure if this ever really got answered, if you are running dFold as a service and you restart or shutdown the compupter dFold shuts down properly. In phase I it was different than shutting it down by removing the foldtrajlite.lock file in that it did not try to upload, it just shut down. In phase II uploading only happens at specific times anyway so I don't think that there is any difference between the two now.

OneMacGuy · Jul 18, 2003, 09:11 AM

Originally posted by Welnic:
I'm not sure if this ever really got answered, if you are running dFold as a service and you restart or shutdown the compupter dFold shuts down properly. In phase I it was different than shutting it down by removing the foldtrajlite.lock file in that it did not try to upload, it just shut down. In phase II uploading only happens at specific times anyway so I don't think that there is any difference between the two now.

I have been trying to optimize my setups for running dfold and I do not understand some of my settings problems.

When I install the client the way Scott recommends, it does not allow me to save any switches like " -f protein -n native -qt -rt". When I open the service manager, edit the service and input my start parameters, it takes them, but when I go back and look at the service, they are gone. I even looked in the registry and found the service listed there, but I could not find any startup parameters listed there either.

Is there a simpler way or an automated to start the foldtrajlite.exe as a service and add your startup parameters? A simpler automated way for this to be done on multiple machines from a preset bunch of parameters would be great. Now, if you need to change the way you installed somwthing here, it takes 10-15 minutes per machine! Am I missing something here?

Welnic · Jul 18, 2003, 10:55 AM

The info on how to configure the service (and a lot of other information) is in the readme1st.txt file in the distribfold folder.

When you install as a service it makes a file called SERVICE.CFG that you can edit for your settings. To run with more RAM you add the line:

useram=1

The lines in this file replace the various -rt switches.

There is also a new client for windows that doesn't have the memory leak problems:

ftp://ftp.mshri.on.ca/pub/distribfol...ldtrajlite.zip

OneMacGuy · Jul 18, 2003, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by Welnic:
The info on how to configure the service (and a lot of other information) is in the readme1st.txt file in the distribfold folder.

When you install as a service it makes a file called SERVICE.CFG that you can edit for your settings. To run with more RAM you add the line:

useram=1

The lines in this file replace the various -rt switches.

There is also a new client for windows that doesn't have the memory leak problems:

ftp://ftp.mshri.on.ca/pub/distribfol...ldtrajlite.zip

Thanks, that did it! Actually when I opened the service.cfg file it already had those settings in it. I think that when I added those command line switches to the service, the dfold client must have written the service.cfg with the proper parameters for me, that is why it did not need to keep the switches on the command line.

BTW, I did read that file, or most of it anyway and did not see it before you pointed it out to me. A good set of instructions on optimizing the CLI client would really be handy here.

A couple of things I learned is keep a copy of your handle file available and you do not have to keep entering that ridiculous user id.

Also I edited the foldit.bat file and kept a copy of it so that I do not have to remember all of those switches to customize my settigs..

The Raven · Jul 18, 2003, 04:29 PM

Originally posted by Welnic:

When you install as a service it makes a file called SERVICE.CFG that you can edit for your settings. To run with more RAM you add the line:

useram=1

The lines in this file replace the various -rt switches.

You also need to always have the first line be service=1 or it wont use any of the switches you put there.