How stable is DF these days?

[Daniel, Laura, and Nora]

I'm looking at DF again. I hesitate to switch over on any but my most accessible machines, though, because the client would shut down when a bad protein came along. I'm not willing to put in the time to restart the thing, even occasionally. How do things stand now?

[MikeTimbers]

Very stable, in my experience. I have 13 PCs to monitor at work running DF as a service under NT4 Workstation. Unless the user does something horrid like just turning off the PC, it works flawlessly. The auto-update feature now means I can completely forget about the weekly updates. The upload frequency can be set manually to whatever you want.

It works and gives instant gratification in the form of fast stats.

[phil]

Yup I agree...working fine here.

[Nofinger]

Works without any problems for me to :)

[Daniel, Laura, and Nora]

Cool. I'm in.

[MikeTimbers]

:baa:

Woot!

:D

Welcome!

[TheBorgKnight]

This is the last CASP protein. The only problems with the client occur around protein changeovers. This next protein will change again on September 9, but the next one after that should run for over a month, depending on how large it is. The DF client has been very stable for me, and works great on NT boxes with 256 megs of RAM. There is a switch you can set which allows the client to use more memory and nearly doubles its speed.

[pelligrini]

I had a bunch of problems with this update. I'd say 50% of my machines had some sort of failure.

The -rt switch is nice, but only if you've got the memory. I had to shut down over half of my DF clients because of too little ram. No sense in running the client without it. It'd cost me a fortune to get enough memory for all of my boxes.

I started running DF again last Wednesday for a little while. Had to do a little stompin' over on my other team (http://www.zerothelement.com/ocn-stats/index-1.shtml). ;) (I was behind tweety)

[pelligrini]

Originally posted by MikeTimbers
Unless the user does something horrid like just turning off the PC, it works flawlessly.
That sure can really fuxor things. That's one really great things about the Genome .99 client. It's really hard to make it not run.

We ought to see if Dyyryath would be kind enough to provide us with one of these (http://www.zerothelement.com/ocn-stats/index-1.shtml).

[Daniel, Laura, and Nora]

Thanks TBK. My NT boxes survived a few protein changeovers but eventually bought the farm and I gave up. I've fired up 3/14 boxes. Two boxes will do genome or seti because they are sneakernet beasts. I'm having a little trouble with a WinXP box using Tiny Personal Firewall. I haven't been able to get DF to cohabitate with TPF yet.