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Join Date: Apr 2003
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I'm looking into getting back on the wagon and rejoin the team for folding at home. Since currently my computer are lowly over-clocked G4's I was wondering if there were any optimizations I could do to the client. I know the team page used to have some, but forgive as it appears is a bunch of link in one big mess and I couldn't find any info.
Also does it crunch WU's quicker with the text only console or graphical client, as opposed to the screen saver?
Mucho Gracias!
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silly Valley, Ca
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Text console is always faster.
The only thing you can really do to speed it up is to change the nice value to the maximum CPU hog number of -20 as root.
So either launch fah with sudo, or set it to run in the background as root's crontab.
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Mac Elite
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Originally posted by mikkyo:
Text console is always faster.
The only thing you can really do to speed it up is to change the nice value to the maximum CPU hog number of -20 as root.
So either launch fah with sudo, or set it to run in the background as root's crontab.
Thanks, do I have to leave the Terminal window open all the time for it to run, should I disable the screen saver client. Also is there a page showing how to do the tweaks you describe. So the correct order would be to fire up terminal, log in as root using sudo and launch the application?
Thanks again!
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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Our old Fold install pages are located here. Beware the download links, they may link to old client versions.
You do not need to leave the Terminal open if the client is launched from a crontab. Otherwise, yes. There are some specialized commands that let you place the client in the background and then close or quit the Terminal, but I don't recall them offhand.
Exception: adding " &" onto the end of the launch command will do the trick, but it's reliable only if you are lunching the client as root.
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I suspect that low priority is quicker then idle, is this correct?
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