T4rd
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I hate making new threads cuz I'm sure this has been covered before, but I failed to find it, so here goes:
Here's my VM setup: Win7 64-bit, i7 @ 3.36 ATM, 6GB RAM, running one VM with 4 threads/cores configured for it.
Issue 1: For some reason, after running the VM for a while, it starts killing my internet connection by maxing out my upload ISP cap constantly. I can see this because I have a custom firmware on my Linksys router (DD-WRT) that shows all LAN, WLAN, and WAN bandwidth usage. My ISPs upload cap is 512 Kb/s and my WAN outbound traffic stays there until I close or disconnect my VM, then immediately goes down to 0 outbound traffic. This is not happening while uploading a completed WU because FahMon shows it's still in the middle of working on a WU. It's also not CPU usage because priority on it is "Idle" and I can ping my router with 1ms times constantly (as was the issue with someone else that recently had this issue). Why is this and is there anywhere I can cap the VMs connection usage? I don't see the option.
Issue 2: Notfred is only using 2 or 3 cores sometimes, about 70% of the time it seems to use all 4 cores/threads as I've assigned to it through the folding.vmx file in Wordpad and also through WinAFC. Is this normal? Also, what's really the point in using WinAFC to set the affinity to specific cores/threads? As long as you set the priority low in the task manager, I see no problem with letting it distribute the load across all 8 threads. Care to enlighten me? Here's my config:
folding.vmx config: "numvcpus = "4""
WinAFC affinityinput.txt config: "*\vmware-vmx.exe := ALL [assign=4,priority=idle]"
I'm seeing around 4150k PPD from 4 threads @ 3.36 GHz. That's about on-par, right?
Issue 3: About once a day, the VM stops and gives me some errors. I've gotten two different ones so far, I keep forgetting to get a screenshot of it, but one of them I just got about 30 mins ago. It was giving me an error that pretty much said "not enough memory" even though I have "1024" configured for the VM in the folding.vmx file and I have no less than 3GBs of physical RAM left at all times. I wish I had gotten the exact error for this, but will post back with it if it happens again soon.
Edit: One of the errors says
"attempt to access beyond end of device
hda1: rw=1, want=2096304, limit=2088387"
But it seems to still be folding after this error, so I don't know if I should worry about it.
Thanks for any help you all can provide .
Here's my VM setup: Win7 64-bit, i7 @ 3.36 ATM, 6GB RAM, running one VM with 4 threads/cores configured for it.
Issue 1: For some reason, after running the VM for a while, it starts killing my internet connection by maxing out my upload ISP cap constantly. I can see this because I have a custom firmware on my Linksys router (DD-WRT) that shows all LAN, WLAN, and WAN bandwidth usage. My ISPs upload cap is 512 Kb/s and my WAN outbound traffic stays there until I close or disconnect my VM, then immediately goes down to 0 outbound traffic. This is not happening while uploading a completed WU because FahMon shows it's still in the middle of working on a WU. It's also not CPU usage because priority on it is "Idle" and I can ping my router with 1ms times constantly (as was the issue with someone else that recently had this issue). Why is this and is there anywhere I can cap the VMs connection usage? I don't see the option.
Issue 2: Notfred is only using 2 or 3 cores sometimes, about 70% of the time it seems to use all 4 cores/threads as I've assigned to it through the folding.vmx file in Wordpad and also through WinAFC. Is this normal? Also, what's really the point in using WinAFC to set the affinity to specific cores/threads? As long as you set the priority low in the task manager, I see no problem with letting it distribute the load across all 8 threads. Care to enlighten me? Here's my config:
folding.vmx config: "numvcpus = "4""
WinAFC affinityinput.txt config: "*\vmware-vmx.exe := ALL [assign=4,priority=idle]"
I'm seeing around 4150k PPD from 4 threads @ 3.36 GHz. That's about on-par, right?
Issue 3: About once a day, the VM stops and gives me some errors. I've gotten two different ones so far, I keep forgetting to get a screenshot of it, but one of them I just got about 30 mins ago. It was giving me an error that pretty much said "not enough memory" even though I have "1024" configured for the VM in the folding.vmx file and I have no less than 3GBs of physical RAM left at all times. I wish I had gotten the exact error for this, but will post back with it if it happens again soon.
Edit: One of the errors says
"attempt to access beyond end of device
hda1: rw=1, want=2096304, limit=2088387"
But it seems to still be folding after this error, so I don't know if I should worry about it.
Thanks for any help you all can provide .
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