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Personally I find folding has a large affect on the performance of a few things. One of them is running PerfectDisk (defrag tool). It takes several times longer when folding aswell, and immediately speeds up as soon as folding is stopped. Also, moving files around the hard drives is much slower. Maybe to do with the raid array?

Its not a big deal though, I just stop it when defragging. I agree that there is no hit to games or browsing etc.
 
Craig321 said:
Good idea.
I think BOINC runs at low so I'll make folding run at low as well :)

Hmmm, but the only other thing is that BOINC runs 2 SETI projects at a time each taking 50% each, if I ran folding as well on the same priority would the 2 seti projects and the folding project take a third each?

THanks,
Craig.
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Yes it would split into 3rd's.

You can tell BOINC to not run two processes even if it's on a dual core. Though I can't remember wether you tell BOINC not to or wether you have to go into your seti preferences on their website.

Joeyjojo, I use Diskeeper 10 Professional and I find it makes no difference wether folding is running or not. This is on a 3200+ at stock with only 512mb of OCZ Platinum memory.
 
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rich99million said:
I would never run a defrag whilst folding is going anyway - that might explain why I really need to defrag most of my drives then :o :D
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Heh rich, I'm exactly the same. I keep thinking I should defrag, then realise it's folding and say I'll do it some other time.

Diskeeper, unlucky, give perfectdisk a go :)
Seriously though, I used to use diskeeper until it did more harm than good. It messed up the mfts and I had to format the drive :/ Was very disappointed.
 
I use it on all my machines, I particularly like the I-FAAST method. I find it use's virtually no CPU and is very quick at comprehensive defragging.

Obviously some of my machines do nothing but fold so one comprehensive defrag and the only files that need defragging are a few windows files ocasionally.

I get Diskeeper to increase the MFT manually before it gets full therby keeping it contiguous. Done it hundreds of times and never had a problem.
 
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Yeh, it's the mft padding feature which messed the drive up. As you imply, it was probably pretty unlikely, but made me switch anyway.

One easily gets fanboyish about this kind of thing (myself included). For example:

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6960
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/DiskeeperTestimonials.html Check out the "Diskeeper vs. PerfectDisk"
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1585429,00.asp User ratings are funny

etc. etc.

If something goes wrong, one immediately blames the software, when it's probably your pc (my pc?) It's all based on your preference, and usually if something goes wrong with one of them.

Enjoy :)
 
BillytheImpaler said:
I solve the defrag-whilst-folding problem by using a proper journaled file system like ext3.
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No need to duck mate, nobody here has anything against Linux, who in their right mind is a windows fanboy? :p

Been meaning to get linux for a while. Stuck a gentoo cd in the machine a while ago, but was confused when it ran straight off the cd instead of installing :eek: :D
 
joeyjojo said:
Been meaning to get linux for a while. Stuck a gentoo cd in the machine a while ago, but was confused when it ran straight off the cd instead of installing :eek: :D
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Well you might have gotten a live-CD by mistake but it's more likely that you got one of the new-style installers that load into a full GUI OS then let you install from there. Gentoo is a source distribution so I imagine that what you were seeing was a GUI from which you had the opportunity to compile and install. :)
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Well you might have gotten a live-CD by mistake but it's more likely that you got one of the new-style installers that load into a full GUI OS then let you install from there. Gentoo is a source distribution so I imagine that what you were seeing was a GUI from which you had the opportunity to compile and install. :)
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Yeh, the second one :) . Like I said, at some point I'll sort it out. Maybe read a manual for once.

What do you run then?
 
I slept around with a bunch of distros but lately I've decided to settle down and be faithful to Ubuntu. It really is the best, most well-planned, smoothest distro. the community support is amazing and it's a great first distro.

Check out the Linux desktops thread in the Linux, OSS & and OS X forum. You can get a feel for how sharp a Linux desktop can be.
 
joeyjojo said:
Yeh, it's the mft padding feature which messed the drive up. As you imply, it was probably pretty unlikely, but made me switch anyway.

One easily gets fanboyish about this kind of thing (myself included). For example:

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6960
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/DiskeeperTestimonials.html Check out the "Diskeeper vs. PerfectDisk"
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1585429,00.asp User ratings are funny

etc. etc.

If something goes wrong, one immediately blames the software, when it's probably your pc (my pc?) It's all based on your preference, and usually if something goes wrong with one of them.

Enjoy :)
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Yeah I know what you mean.

And I understand that the minute anything goes wrong everyone instantly blames the software, when it's usually either user error or a faulty unstable system. Too many people seem to do that, guess we always need a scape goat that isn't us :p

I've never tried perfectdisk if I started having trouble with diskeeper then I'd try some other defraggers.

The only other defrag program I've used is O&O which was quite good but I never actually got it to work, as I was testing Windows XP Pro x64 at the time, and the O&O software installed perfectly but whenever I told it to do anything it said it was but never actually did anything.
 
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