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03-15-2007, 11:03 PM
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FaH on a dual boot machine
Hi all,
I've been folding away for a couple weeks, and just gave in and installed Ubuntu Linux....I spend about half my time in Windows, half in linux, and that's unlikely to change, so I was wondering, what does that mean for folding? I know that the program and progress that I have now are stored in windows; if I get the linux client and run it separately, will FaH get mad that I've got two projects going on 1 processor? Thanks in advance!
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03-16-2007, 01:46 AM
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Good question... I would think that if you were to run under Linux as well, you'd be installing a different client in a different directory. You'd have two different folds going on alternately, I guess. The worry would be that you might not meet the deadline on one fold if one of your OSes were to become neglected or less used.
If it's a 24/7 machine, you might be best served to reboot into Windows each time you finish with Linux, and let it do the heavy lifting overnight or something.
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i would agree with Kov on this one. the faster the work can get back to Stanford the better. maybe you could run the windows folding via WINE while in linux? i dunno if it would work or not.
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03-16-2007, 07:02 AM
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Ok. I'd forgotten about the deadlines; you're right, this would slow things down.
I DO have NTFS read/write support, so I may be able to run the linux client out of the same directory as the windows one, and have them working on the same WU.... If not, I'll reboot for the 'heavy lifting.' Thanks guys! |
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03-16-2007, 01:01 PM
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I confirmed on the folding forums that the data is different between the Windows and Linux clients. Eric's idea of running a Windows folding client under WINE would be a work-around, but I have no idea how big a pain that might be to set up.
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