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Beerdrinker
10-31-10, 03:49 PM
Hey Team...

I nocticed that we actually had a very decent output on FreeHal yesterday...Yep, thatīs rigth...Almost ― Mill CS done on FreeHal...

Itīs so easy points to obtain, that everyone with 1GB ram or more should be doing this!!!
c303a
10-31-10, 04:36 PM
I agree. Now that they have fixed it to were you have many choices on how to run it. You can have cpu intensive, non-intensive and now you can run both with your choice of 1 core or multi cores depending on what you are running in your system.
Maxwell
10-31-10, 04:53 PM
CI WUs take about 1 hour. NCI WUs take about 4 hours. If you allow more than one CI WU on your machine, you're going to be eating up a lot of your processors, and not doing nearly as well with other CPU projects. I'm allowing 1 NCI/core on my machines, and am really happy with the output. Doesn't interfere much with CPU crunching that way.
KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]
10-31-10, 06:19 PM
It's the first project I attach to.. All 3 rigs are running it now :)
joker
10-31-10, 07:14 PM
What is this FreeHal you speak of?? :p
zombie67
11-01-10, 09:44 AM
It's been down for the weekend, but it's back up now. Check you machines, as they may be working off a really long back-off. Get them going again manually if you have to.
c303a
11-01-10, 12:44 PM
CI WUs take about 1 hour. NCI WUs take about 4 hours. If you allow more than one CI WU on your machine, you're going to be eating up a lot of your processors, and not doing nearly as well with other CPU projects. I'm allowing 1 NCI/core on my machines, and am really happy with the output. Doesn't interfere much with CPU crunching that way.

I agree that if you run the CI tasks that you will use a lot of processor if you allow more then 1 instance to run. I only use the NCI units. If they take longer or I don.t get as much credit it's ok with me. At least it is running and getting credit.
c303a
11-01-10, 12:48 PM
What is this FreeHal you speak of?? :p
http://freehal.net/freehal_at_home/
Check it out at the above URL. Runs using next to nothing for processor resources and is like free credit.
joker
11-02-10, 07:34 PM
What is this FreeHal you speak of??

That was a little joke.
Slicker
11-03-10, 08:59 PM
Have they gone back to running 25 WUs simultaneously with little or no CPU? If not, I don't see a reason to crunch this one. SIMAP and several other projects don't have enough WUs to go around but they don't limit machines to one at a time, but that's just my opinion. I'm guessing my boxes get more credit per cpu second on AQUA anyway.
zombie67
11-03-10, 10:41 PM
You can run up to one task per thread, non-CPU. Big credits.
joker
11-03-10, 11:03 PM
In my best Arnold voice...Run it, run it now! :)
Maxwell
11-03-10, 11:29 PM
You can run up to one task per thread, non-CPU. Big credits.
Actually, I think it's one thread per physical core - my 980x only gets 6; the dual quad xeon get's eight. The AMDx6 gets six...
zombie67
11-04-10, 09:21 AM
Actually, I think it's one thread per physical core - my 980x only gets 6; the dual quad xeon get's eight. The AMDx6 gets six...

Naw, it's per thread. BOINC sees threads as if they were cores.
Maxwell
11-04-10, 10:06 AM
Naw, it's per thread. BOINC sees threads as if they were cores.
I understand that - all I'm saying is that I'm only getting 1 FreeHAL NCI WU per physical core...
Bryan
11-04-10, 11:13 AM
I understand that - all I'm saying is that I'm only getting 1 FreeHAL NCI WU per physical core...

I get 8 on my I7.
Maxwell
11-04-10, 11:32 AM
I get 8 on my I7.
Stop making me cry! =((

I'm going to have to check my smattering of machines today. Maybe I'm just the lone freak. Maybe I'm just unlucky.
STMahlberg
11-04-10, 03:34 PM
I seem to have problems every time I run FreeHAL. :(

But I guess I will try it again... just like the other day I was out back banging my head on the block wall when my neighbor saw what I was doing she asked, "Why are you doing that?"

Because it feels good when I stop... duh.
zombie67
11-04-10, 03:55 PM
I get 8 on my I7.

Yep. Me too.
joker
11-04-10, 05:52 PM
I seem to have problems every time I run FreeHAL. Just curious, how much memory do you got?
Maxwell
11-04-10, 07:26 PM
Ok - it's got to be me and some setting I have, but I can't figure out which one or where I change it. (And yes, I have it set to 1 NCI WU per core...)

My machines:

2 threads => 2 NCI WUs
4 threads => 4 NCI WUs
6 threads => 6 NCI WUs
8 threads => 6 NCI WUs
12 threads => 6 NCI WUs
16 threads => 6 NCI WUs

Help?
zombie67
11-04-10, 07:39 PM
Something weird is going on, and probably with the project server (what else is new?). Sometimes I get 8 sometimes 6, like you.

Still, I will put up with the idiosyncrasies so long as it isn't breaking anything on my machines. 12k+ per day in free credits.
Maxwell
11-04-10, 07:53 PM
Something weird is going on, and probably with the project server (what else is new?). Sometimes I get 8 sometimes 6, like you.

Still, I will put up with the idiosyncrasies so long as it isn't breaking anything on my machines. 12k+ per day in free credits.
Agreed - not complaining about the credits I'm getting. Just found it weird and would like to get more free credits if possible... :cool:
STMahlberg
11-04-10, 11:27 PM
I really need a memory upgrade; 4 Gigs just isn't cutting it on my main system. :(
c303a
11-05-10, 10:03 AM
I get anywhere from 1 to 4 units on my Q6600 quad. Must be the server. Of course the server has always been a little funny. I just let it run. If it works ok, if not well......
Beerdrinker
11-05-10, 02:58 PM
I donīt even notice how many I run at a time...And frankly...I donīt care...Itīs anywhere from 500 to 1000CS per day I would not get anyway..
joker
11-05-10, 04:08 PM
Itīs anywhere from 500 to 1000CS per day I would not get anyway..

Ill drink to that!! <:-P