Folding as services

[dekez]

Little help needed please - I'm trying to run an smp console client as a service in Win 7, I've set it up in the config to run as a service and it starts up fine, but I'm having trouble setting the -smp flag.

I've gone into services (run as administrator) and typed -smp into the "start parameters" at the bottom, but it won't let me apply the change

Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[miniyazz]

Do you need the -smp parameter? I run mine (not a service, just the exe) without any parameters - I set that up in the config.

Also, do you need it to run as a service? Or could you just run it in Startup, if need be?

 

[dekez]

Without it it doesn't seem to use all of the cores.

I'm running it off start up at the moment but just experimenting, if it works ok as a service I'll do the same for my other rig running Windows home server.

If it runs as a service I think that if the server restarts for any reason they will start running without me needing to go onto the desktop, although not sure about that. Just fiddling around really

 

[miniyazz]

Ah right. Well you'll probably need to put however many cores as well - e.g. -smp 8 - but I've not experimented with services.

 

[SiriusB]

In the config is a question asking if you want to set any additional flags. Add the -smp 8 [or whatever] there.

 

[dekez]

I never knew you could add flags in the config - I've been creating shortcuts and adding them in there all this time! lol well you learn something new everyday, cheers guys