folding with terminal vs. gui client

[zen.state]

hi all.. I recently started using the terminal client rather than the gui client I used before and I notice the terminal seems to take much longer than the gui client to finish 1%.

is this normal or do I just by chance have a very big work unit?

thanks.

 

[DeSnousa]

Pretty much all WU's will have varying points and therefore different folding times, just relax and let the computer fold and when you check it next time, enjoy the points.

 

[Dreadnought]

That's strange, the console version should be a bit faster then the gui version. Especially on older/slower machines. All of the cpu power goes to crunching the WU, there isn't a bit that helps the graphics card making the picture, so the console version should be faster.

 

[zen.state]

That's strange, the console version should be a bit faster then the gui version. Especially on older/slower machines. All of the cpu power goes to crunching the WU, there isn't a bit that helps the graphics card making the picture, so the console version should be faster.

I see where you're coming from but the gui client only has a gui if you tell it to display the protein. it defaults to not showing so there is nothing to use system resources.

I have folded 8 large units on my G4 500 and all of them got 10% or so in the time it took the terminal client to get about 1-2%. using the gui client I had it set to accept the proteins above 5mb. it always took about 8-10 days to do 1 wu and I would get about 250+ points for each so they were large.

 

[Dreadnought]

Compare them now to the same WU's. Some WU's take a really long time and it sometimes even depends on the first couple of percentages, they sometimes take even longer then the rest of the percentages of the WU. I had t last week that a single percentage took more then 2 hours to process on my machine at work. That was because the extra SSE boost was off. When I restarted folding a percentage only took 50 minutes. So it could also be that your prefs with the console version aren't correct and it doesn't have a boost. Normally you shouldn't be able to see a lot of difference between the GUI or the console version and the same WU.