Quick question: Dualcore smp spawns four A1.exes?

Happy · 27 Apr 2009 at 00:52

Is the above normal, I would've thought a dualcore would spawn two since my quadcore spawns four? Just a bit confused

Does about 820PPD sound about right for a 2.6Ghz AMD 5200X2 using said SMP client?

Many Thanks

Mattus · 27 Apr 2009 at 01:09

Four threads is normal, it's hardcoded to spawn four.

820ppd is pants

What project number is it? Sounds like you hit a bad WU.

Happy · 27 Apr 2009 at 01:16

Ah ok, the project number is P2665. Is that rubbish since my quad has that on both instances of FAH?

A.N.Other · 27 Apr 2009 at 01:17

Does sound like you might have got a bit of a naff WU there but it's not too far off the right sort of points. I get about 1200-1500 with a Q6600 at stock normally ...

Happy · 27 Apr 2009 at 01:20

Can you pause the windows SMP clients, and if not is there a better way to shut them down than 'Control + C' since I usually get the improper core shutdown message and the it deletes the WU and starts a again? :/

Snapshot · 27 Apr 2009 at 06:34

Don't bother running two WinSMP clients on one PC as they just don't play nicely together and shutting down one does usually kill the other. A combined score of around 1750 is about right for P2665 - it's a really crap WU but virtually all WinSMP gets at the moment.

Happy · 27 Apr 2009 at 09:54

It was an Althon X2 that was on 820PPD my quad was running each WinSMP at 1700PPD.

Looks like today will be spent setting up virtual machines......YAY