Now use 4 cores in VMware player

[oatey4519]

Had problems with FAHMON not loading etc..

But none with VMWARE.
Works well - so far for daylight production

[Bork_Bork]

I reinstalled Notfreds and it's now running 1 instance using 4 cores but it is only using 65% of the CPU?

[oatey4519]

sounds about right to me..
2 x will give you 100%

[leexgx]

@others
change the workgroup in reconfigure to match your workgroup on you pc (not had an issue yet with not been able to connect to my notfreds clients)

@Bork_Bork
is it running A1 or A2, make sure its set to 4 thread in notfred (under reconfigure) you may be able to use 8 (i test it later on see if it start) as it can only use A2 cores with 2 or 8 threads
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one thing i have seen that AMD VM notfred is bit better then Intel CPU VM notfred haveing opera open on my intel CPU makes me lose close to 800-1000 PPD, but my AMD PII loses none (apart form when when i start checking/decompressing downloads)

[leexgx]

Originally Posted by chin913

This spec as follows
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Microsoft Windows 7 (6.1) Ultimate Edition (Build 7600) 64 bit edition
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz
4 gig of ram
Running 1 gpu client in high priority
2 Vmwares low priority this morning vmware is getting as from the pics vmware 1 2999.78ppd
vmware 2 1949.33 ppd

On my other q6600 i get 2500 each vmware thats only clocked to 2.7

Memory is set to 1500 per vmware

i am assuming that you had them Folding running for 1day 6hrs

your in fact getting 1800 PPD there look at the logs (View/show FAHlog) the times are likely to be way off if you had it running for 1 day (i can see its been running for 1day 6 hrs it should only take around 11-13 hrs to do each work unit on your CPU)

only run one VMware notfred on quad or dual core cpus

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=12042

As Stanford prefer to get work back as fast as it can it is better to use 1 VM Notfred at an time (as i found 2 VM are likely going take 1.5x longer to send the work back)

Ok do not run 2 notfred VMs as it takes a lot longer to complete each work unit 11hrs on one VM (thats 2 per day) on 2 VMs it takes 33hrs (thats about 2 per day and an half, so 20 hrs is wasted)

do not be fooled into that your getting high PPD when running 2 VMs, its FAHmon is been miss lead, in this case due to the fact that each VM is running at 2x slower Time speed so it says its 10 mins per frame but its really 20 mins real time but FAHmon thinks its 10 mins as its only looking whats in the folding logs

[Unicorn]

I'm sceptical about that, my Fahmon PPD always said x PPD when I was running VMs on my Q6600 (not at the moment because that rig is down) and EOC stats always reflected that PPD estimation. I think the clocks in the VM are fine, a quad can run 2 of them no problem.

[leexgx]

how long does it take to complete an work unit it should take around 12 hrs to do each work unit if its taking 1day 5hrs your wasting project time and getting lower PPD you get the points for the work unit but it take 1day 5 hrs or more for each work unit or 2 per day if under 1 VM,

i really could do with you checking it make sure time is not drifting, as it did this on both my AMD PII and intel QX6850 3.3ghz

other stuff i have seen when folding
the NV cores (1888 pointers) on both my systems AMD and intel, really did mess up the PPD at one point i was getting less then 4000 PPD per GPU but i was getting an extra 600 PPD on the SMP notfred, going to add to my guide PriFinitty 2 (going to make it bit more complicated)

[Bork_Bork]

I am running 2 VM's as running 1 only uses 60-65% of my CPU, PPD shows as 3200 which is just over what I was getting with 2 VMs with 2 Cores.

Is there a way to make the VM use all of the CPU, it's definitely set to 4 cores and 4 threads.

[spunkymonkey]

whilst we are on vm,is there anyway to lock down the ip address? i tend to shut down my routers for an hour at night whilst i have a quick online frag session,so when i switch them back on vm reassigns new ip address's.
cheers spunky

[saspro]

Spunky, just log in to the web page & set it a static

[leexgx]

@spunkymonkey
press reconfigure on the notfred web page and put in IP address in (gateway and DNS must be used as well)

@Bork_Bork
make sure its using A2 work units (under reconfigure) make sure big and adv options are ticked

[Bork_Bork]

@leexgx - I was looking through the logs and realised the problem was A1 cores, it seems to be getting A2 cores now, so I've killed off the second VM. I can't remember if I reconfigured or not I think the big and adv options are ticked, will check tonight.

[leexgx]

if the A2 core server is down after 4-5 failed connects it goto the A1 core server (it only does about 70% total CPU used but it only takes 13hrs to do it)

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I tested again running 2 vms results in the 2 VMs time service running 2x slower
FAHmon will be reading the frame time incorrectly and reporting good PPD like mine now says i am getting 7000 PPD running 2 VMs when in fact is more like 3500-3000 PPD (1VM gets me 4100 PPD) i log the times again when i get back tonight but its all ready off the time on the VMs by 30 mins and its only been running for an hr

[leexgx]

nudge

(just noticed that the effective rate in FAHmon stil shows the correct frame time as its reporting 18mins 46sec per frame that must be using local time for total time running time not remote time)

I had 2 VMs with 2 cores each, on 4 quads. With Player 3 I run a single 4-core VM on a quad. If you're trying to run two 4-core VMs on a quad, you WILL run both at half speed.

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.ph...118461#p118419 basicly what he posted