Question about 'allowing WUs greater than 5mb in size'

[Mikey1280]

I'm sure everyone has said 'yes' to this option but one guy on the folding forums said that when he changed the answer to 'no' on his intel folding farm (this was just after QMDs stopped being given out) he got lots and lots of 99x dblgromacs as they are small due to low points. Has anyone tried this, I may give it a go, but atm I will probably just get more 56 pointers

 

[Mikey1280]

It would be interesting to see, however with all these 56 pointers floating around the results may not be fair. I'm thinking about setting up 10 clients, 5 with yes and 5 with no and seeing what happens.

 

[Mikey1280]

A lot of the WUs available are giving pretty good PPD, eg the 130 pointers. I would keep it on but it might be interesting to find out what will happen.

Do it, Mikey. I'm curious.

I think I'll give it a go tomorrow then, seeing as I only have 1gb of ram will it cope with 4 or 5 clients (I can setup the others on another machine)?

My best ppd project is the 994 which is a 130 pointer as you say, are these under 5mb?


Rich, how long do the beta WUs take to get into the open? Do you have to do much for beta testing btw?

EDIT: shouldnt matter about having more and more clients, I'll just do them individually.

 

[Mikey1280]

Hmm, it's probably not a good idea if you're running this all on one machine. I guess I assumed you'd be using multiple machines.

I can setup 5 clients and see what WU I get on each, can then crunch each one individually so not pushing memory limits. I want to know what projects are under 5mb and whether theyre any good ppd wise. Do you know of any which are definitely over 5mb?

 

[Mikey1280]

basically they just run them until they're happy that they are stable enough to be released to the public

The 1164 and 1165 that have just been released were only started in beta about a week ago but as most had no problems at all then they went through very quickly. A lot of the large Double Gromacs are still getting EUEs all over the place so they are taking a lot longer.

Basically all you have to do when testing is to keep a close eye on your machines, check back through the logs for any error messages, and report with enough detail and information to enable someone to work out what's going wrong.
In the case of EUEs you report the Project: run/clone/gen numbers along with a section of the log and brief details of your machine, one of the mods will then look up the specific WU and tell you if it's already had several EUEs from other people or if it's unique to you (and thus a problem/bug with your rig/client)

Ok thanks for that Rich, looking at the applicants in the 'add me to the beta team list' on the folding forums it looks like I will get rejected, I am not a software developer, programmer nor do I have access to multiple OSes

 

[Mikey1280]

Well I setup 5 clients saying 'no' and I expect you can guess what they got . I may try it again in a few weeks when hopefully there are less 56 pointers floating around. Even with the answer 'yes' I am still getting 56 pointers so it doesnt disprove my theory.