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stormduck

stormduck

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After a lot of faffing about i've finally got ubuntu running on vmware, with folding set up, just one client for the moment, with samba file server setup and fahmon in windows picking up the client! Quite an achievement for me i do believe!

Just need some help to get more clients set up if someone could!? I've followed the instructions (http://smp.aeternum.co.uk/guide/6) to get another client setup and when starting folding it says that 2 processors have started successfully but only one is actually running (Fahmon and task manager at 50% says so). I've editted the 'fah' file using windows to access the file through samba, and notepad to edit to change the file to read CPU2. I've also added a 3rd and changed that to CPU3 to see if it raised CPU useage, but it doesn't. I'll wait to see what happens in Fahmon regarding percentage completed on the different WUs, but i would like to get 100% cpu usuage of course?
 
You running on a quad? If so VMWare will only support 2 cores so you'll need another VMWare running to use more than 50%


Nicely done though - t'is an achievement for sure :)


edit: Can't see it in SB's guide but is should just be a case of adding another VM the same as you've already done - you might want to wait for someone who's already done it to let you know the best way though :o :p
 
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who's a stoopid plonka then! Simple solution eh! I'll knock the 3rd process on the head then, run 2 processes for the time being. What's the best ram to allocate to a vm running 2 processes. I have 4gb in total running vista 64, currently have 1.5gb allocated to the vm?
 
800mb-1gb is usually fine for a two client VM, providing you have set Advanced-Methods to 'no' when setting up each client (enabling A-M's can result in work units that use upto and over 1gb each. They crash Ubuntu if they can't access enough memory).

With a quad-core you're better running two VM's, with one client each. You can get away with allocating ~600mb to each VM, providing A-M's is not enabled.

Or ofcourse you can go hard-core and run two clients in each VM. But you need the memory to do so. 4gb is more than enough, but it depends on how much you want to leave for Vista.
 
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