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#1 2002-12-29 4:53 pm
- Mazer Rackham
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Is it supposed to be this slow?
I'm used to Seti@Home's immediate feedback, I mean it's got the little percentage bar, the percentage stats, the big bar graph and everything.
I quit using Seti@Home once the screensaver stopped working, I think somewhere around or before Jaguar. (By the way, if anyone knows about this, please help. I'm running 10.2.3.)
I opened Folding the other day and walked away. A couple hours later I came back and it was 1% done. I mean, that little tenth percentage doesn't seem to update, now it's just sitting at 1.0%. I've never seen it at .8%, you know?
So is the client supposed to just kind of sit there? It seems slow to me, but it is my first time using it.
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#2 2002-12-29 5:20 pm
- skymt0
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Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
Yeah, Folding does take a long time to do a work unit. Just keep at it.
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#3 2002-12-29 11:14 pm
- jkahless
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Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
If you are concerned about speed run the cl version. According to statsman, I'm averaging a little over 2 poins a day with my g4 933. All the other computers have stopped sending in results. 
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#4 2002-12-30 1:04 pm
Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
Hi,
You will rarely see decimals. Most WUs consist of 100 frames. Every time a frame gets done, the percentage is increased. A couple of WUs have 50 or 200 frames, so there the percentages change by 2 or 0.5%. So, only in the latter case the digit after the period is used.
To learn more about the protein you're folding, see
http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html
Bye for now,
Bert
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#5 2003-01-01 1:39 pm
- SwisSlesS
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Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
It does seem rather slow to me too, but I've left it on for a while and it does seem to have been making progress. It's just a complicated process so it will take a long time.
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#6 2003-01-02 2:16 am
Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
I too have come from other distributed computing efforts, and the slowness worried me at first.
It's interesting, but I think I might start running the background app version instead of the GUI, just because it's not too much fun to watch 
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#7 2003-01-03 12:42 pm
- mrchicken
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Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
yeah, i downloaded the graphical interface and started it up. It stayed at loading...., benchmarking... for like 3 hours. So I quit the app and restarted it. It then went to working but after another long wait, it hadnt gotten any progress.
I tried installing the screen saver too but I got an error installing.
I guess I'll just have to wait.
My computer is quite slow...
Powerbook G3 266mhz.
196MB RAM
8gib HD
cat + --;
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#8 2003-01-03 5:15 pm
Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
I guess I'll just have to wait.
My computer is quite slow...
Powerbook G3 266mhz.
196MB RAM
8gib HD
I run folding on a beige G3/266 DT, so your Powerbook, technically is not too slow. I use the text client though.
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#9 2003-01-03 5:41 pm
Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
Hey Artemis G3,
Isn't it time for you to pay a visit again to the AMC? They have been doing great reaching place 30, but now apparently they don't turn in units anymore.
Bye for now,
Ber
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#10 2003-01-03 5:47 pm
Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
Isn't it time for you to pay a visit again to the AMC? They have been doing great reaching place 30, but now apparently they don't turn in units anymore.
Yeah, I ought to, but it's 3 hours away and I just haven't had time lately. Production only stopped about a week ago.
Oh well, I'm about to break 700 points myself! 
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#11 2003-01-05 1:58 pm
Re: Is it supposed to be this slow?
Hi ArtemisG3,
According to the rumor sites, it may well be worth to go by Tuesday or Wednesday. ;-)
Bye for now,
Bert
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