duallies and DF

[Anarchy99]

why is it over the last week I have had 10+ lockups on clients run on duallies?

one client runs fine and the other just stops, it doesn't error out it just stops running. the gui says its running but the task manager shows nothing happening on one clients foldtrjlite.exe (?spelling) try to stop gui cant stop client shut gui down doesn't stop the exe in task manager?

I have had to wipe the the client folder clean of protein files and error txt progress txt and file txt and start from scratch just to get it to work

it only happens on my duallies

they are in separate folders and are named differently?

no other protien ever gave me trouble on duallies just this one?

any suggestions or similar probs for anyone else or do I just medicate up so I don't smash these $#@%^&^%# computers and live with it?

I hate anything that doesn't do what it is designed to do and I mean HATE

thanks :)

[IronBits]

Create two folders
mkdir \distribfold1
mkdir \distribfold2
extract the client into each folder
make sure you put handle.txt in each folder
make sure autoupdate.cfg is in each folder

edit foldit.bat in each folder, look for the line that looks like this
.\foldtrajlite -f protein -n native

change it to this (windows OS - need 256mb ram)
.\foldtrajlite -f protein -n native -rt -qt

You should also edit foldit.bat in each folder to add DFPTEMP variable to point the swapfiles someplace different from each other.

for example...
set DFPTEMP=\distribfold1\TEMP (in the first case)
set DFPTEMP=\distribfold2\TEMP (in the second case)

then
mkdir \distribfold1\TEMP
mkdir \distribfold2\TEMP

This prevents each client from stepping on each others temp scratch files, which has happened before when using duals.

open a cmd prompt
Then
cd \distribfold1
foldit

open a cmd prompt
cd \distribfold2
foldit

There is no way that I know of to dedicate each client to a different processor.

[Anarchy99]

thanks IB

I only had to do the temp files deal cause I already had everything else setup the way you had it

we will see if it works or not?

[IronBits]

I knew that :p ;)

The rest was for the benefeit of any others who might be wanting to run duals :)