How do i stop folding?

Darryn

Darryn

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Sorry for the disturbing thread title.... :p

Having recently switched my Macpro from Folding under WinXP to OSX, ive decided to switch back and finish off the 4 Wus ive got 1/2 done... How do I the clients to stop after they complete the current WUs rather than downloading and starting another.

Thanks for any help, Darryn.
 
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IM NOT LEAVING... BREATHE Mr VENT....

Im simply switch from 600-900PPD to over 1200PPD... :p


Having done a google ive found a list of arguments/command... -oneunit seems to be the one im after, so ive regeditted that into all the services command lines , stopped and restarted all 4 services. Let me know asap if this is the correct course of action SVP. Darryn.
 
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Now if you read the thread *before* replying, you wouldn't have had that problem. :p

Running the clients manually (i.e. not as a service) with -oneunit usually works (but I've had trouble doing that with PMD workunits). When it's done, check the queue is empty (with -queueinfo), then run with -configonly and remove the service.

Job done. :)
 
Berserker said:
Running the clients manually (i.e. not as a service) with -oneunit usually works (but I've had trouble doing that with PMD workunits). When it's done, check the queue is empty (with -queueinfo), then run with -configonly and remove the service.
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Yep - just to emphasise, you've gotta run the client manually with -oneunit and not as a service. It's not designed to have -svcstart and -oneunit simultaneously and so behaves pretty weirdly - when I tried it it downloaded another WU anyway and decided not to write anything at all to the log file.
 
Berserker said:
Now if you read the thread *before* replying, you wouldn't have had that problem. :p

Running the clients manually (i.e. not as a service) with -oneunit usually works (but I've had trouble doing that with PMD workunits). When it's done, check the queue is empty (with -queueinfo), then run with -configonly and remove the service.

Job done. :)
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You don't have to go through the fag of removing all of the services, as you may want to use them again in the future at some time. Just disable them / set them to manual in the services control panel (r-click my computer, manage, services and apps, services). That means you don't have to fiddle about with regedit again too.

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yep I would set them to Manual now just incase you reboot and get yourself new WUs on any that already have the -oneunit flag

-oneunit does work when run as a service..... well kind of anyway
you may find that although the client closes itself it does infact somehow leave the core running (even though it's finished the WU and not fetched another one), when this happened to me I had to close the other clients which were running at the time to work out which core was the spare one then kill it using task manager (otherwise it'll eat your CPU time whilst doing nothing at all :eek: )

alternatively run any that are really close to finishing in a console window with the -oneunit flag, though of course with 4 clients that would get quite irritating :p
 
Ive removed all F@H services and run all 4 seperately with -oneunit... 2 have so far finished and closed, ive now got a 4hr and 9hr wait for the remaining 2 units then i can purge this Macpro of WinXP for good. :)
 
There's alway the low tech option of not letting it connect (remove wire or run config and say yes to the ask before connecting)

when it's finished stop service, reconnect and use -send all, run config to remove service and your sorted. That way there no chance or getting any new WU's
 
shadowscotland said:
There's alway the low tech option of not letting it connect (remove wire or run config and say yes to the ask before connecting)

when it's finished stop service, reconnect and use -send all, run config to remove service and your sorted. That way there no chance or getting any new WU's
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Alternatively you could set it to receive deadlineless WUs. Since there aren't any to be had right now it'd send the old Wu and try endlessly to get a new one.
 
DreederOcUK said:
Woohoo... job done, i moved the unfinished WUS over to a differant system and its picked up where it left off. So now ive finally made the full switch to OSX.
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So OSX boxes are faster at folding then windows ones? :confused:
 
Not sure about that as a sweeping statement Zip, but, im definately getting a huge increase in PPD using a single SMP client under OSX rather than using 4 instances of the CLI client under XP.

Once the Windows version of the SMP client goes live im sure the balance may swing back into its favour.
 
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