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Yo_Mama
22nd March 2002, 07:22
I forgot to put this on The Big Gun (tm) when I pulled the phone line last night. FWIW - the client will run out of juice at around 16K without it. :(

Nofinger
22nd March 2002, 07:44
I added that line to the Foldit.bat file the moment I saw that line:

Text from program:
Increasing the Buffer Size
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By default, if the client has generated six sets of data and not been able to upload them to our server (for example, because you are disconnected from the network), it will no longer run until your network is restored and the data can be uploaded and cleared from your machine.
This is to prevent data from accumulating on your hard drive.
If you intend to be running the client offline a fair bit, you may wish to allow it to buffer a larger amount of work however (at the cost of taking up several more megabytes of disk space).
To do so, simply edit the foldit script (foldit.bat on Windows) and add "-df" (without the quotes) to the end of the line containing "foldtrajlite -f protein -n native".
If you later change your mind, simply remove the -df.

I also added the command -p ** for changing the priority When running along with G@H I noticed that G@H took more Cpu power over DF.

From program text:

Changing the priority of the client
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You can change the default priority of the client by modifying the foldit script as described above for quiet mode and increasing the buffer size.
Simply add the switch '-p ##' where ## is the desired priority. This can range from -20 (extremely aggressive; will pre-empt most other tasks) to the default of 20 (very passive, only runs when the CPU is idle).
On UNIX the full range from -20 to 20 is available.
Windows defines three process priority levels: Low, Normal and High.
Within each of these are several thread priority levels which allow 'fine tuning'.
Thus the same range [-20, 20] is used On Windows and mapped accordingly.
Use 15 for Low, 0 for Normal and -15 for High.
Other values will more finely tune the priority further.

I set mine to 15 and it looks evenly to me now