my 'old' PC - a P4 1.6 with about 800MB ram - has suddenly gone very slow.

All it does is fold! I never use it for anything else and all it has on it is Norton and folding.

It's been working on the same WU for a couple of days now... yesterday it was taking about 90 mins per 'bit'; today it's been taking about 4 hours per bit! And as I say, it's the same WU.

I've run a virus check and that's not come up with anything.... anyone got any ideas what it might be?? :confused: ??

My XP2200+ has been going 5 days on one.... :(

I think that FAH has recently handed out some seriously BIG units. :thumbdwn: and my machine isn't coping well with it.

at this rate, it would take my pc 400 hours to complete this one WU!! And I don't think that's right somehow, as the WU is 'only' worth 404 points.... prior to this sudden slow down it was working through it at about 1% every 90 mins or so. now, it's 1% every 4 hours or so!

Thing is I can't find anything 'wrong' that would explain why getting up to 13% took 90 mins per %, and then 13-14 took 240, and 14-15 took 240, and 15-16 took 240! :confused: :confused: :confused:

tried a reboot?

yup, tried a reboot, twice...

is there anything anyone can see in the taskmanager that shouldn't be there??

Looks fine

Overheating CPU?, full of dust maybe?

guess it could be overheating, now that the warmer weather is here.... having said that, there are about 5 fans in the case, and I've stripped out a lot of 'unnecessaries' in there (2 redundant CD writers, one redundant HDD, one redundant RAID card) so there should be a lot more room in there now which should in turn mean the airflow should be a lot better?

Guess I'll just have to leave it be for a while - if it doesn't get any better I'll stop it folding, delete the WU, and see how it gets on with a new one

Another good thing that EVERYONE should have as part of their task manager...

CPU time....

go to view menu and select colums.. choose the cpu time.

This gives a good indication if theres something munching a wee more cpu cycles than they should..

the FAH should be the biggie..

yup, just looked and FAH is 25:34:54... next closest thing is svchost.exe on 00:02:15

maybe it IS just a massive WU then..... :confused:

Another good thing that EVERYONE should have as part of their task manager...

CPU time....

go to view menu and select colums.. choose the cpu time.

This gives a good indication if theres something munching a wee more cpu cycles than they should..

the FAH should be the biggie..

Never seen that before in task manager

Most things around 2 or 3 minutes, internet explorer about 20 minutes.... FAHcore.... 60 HOURS!

How do you join the folding team at briskskoda.

I have a large farm of DualCore Xeons doing nothing for the next week

EDIT: worked it out, but it seems like a complete pain to set up multiple clients on multiple multi core machines. ph well havn't got time to be doing that at the moment.

How do you join the folding team at briskskoda.

I have a large farm of DualCore Xeons doing nothing for the next week

EDIT: worked it out' date=' but it seems like a complete pain to set up multiple clients on multiple multi core machines. ph well havn't got time to be doing that at the moment.[/quote']

Follow the link in my signature. If you need any detailed info on setting up the FAH as a service in windows XP - drop me a PM.

Edit: And as a service its easy peasy - You just need to have two clients running, and in the command prompt setup, 1 machine is given ID 1, and the other ID 2. Alternatively just download the graphical client and run at 50% of total capacity (every little helps.

well you have two 4 way boxes running at 50%, one all the time the other when it's on Should hopefully have that fora week or so

Can't you forget to uninstall?

Can't you forget to uninstall?

I'm currently "Stress testing" the cooling on the boxes... see how long it takes

At some point a small farm of about 10 of these will need to be tested, however I wouldn't think it would be me doing it, but somebody who is actually part of the test team

Look forward to seeing you crack into the overclockers team user list.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=42567

The GUI currently claims 7.3s per frame.

Now the better question is does anyone work in an university department. The one i used to work in was doing the cancer folding, had about 1000 new machines running it at idle, 24/7 365. THe amount that churned out

We've yet to find that magic Briskodian who has hundreds of machines to dispose spare CPU to our cause.