I switched just for you guys.

[mc68k]

For those of you using the SMP client, are you finding that you have to run pretty much 24/7 in order to make the work unit deadlines?

the biggest factor is your clock speed for shaving off time on each step of the WU. if you are not doing CPU intensive tasks the time for each step should remain pretty constant. say each step requires an average of 16 minutes you could multiply that by 100 for the steps and get 1600 minutes. thats 26 hours if running 24/7. the deadline is like 3 or 4 days so you could take some breaks in between there and get it done. say each step is 20 minutes then your looking at 33 hours etc

so yeah if you take small breaks no prob, but if you leave it off for a day or more you may be cutting it close.

 

[iShater]

the biggest factor is your clock speed for shaving off time on each step of the WU. if you are not doing CPU intensive tasks the time for each step should remain pretty constant. say each step requires an average of 16 minutes you could multiply that by 100 for the steps and get 1600 minutes. thats 26 hours if running 24/7. the deadline is like 3 or 4 days so you could take some breaks in between there and get it done. say each step is 20 minutes then your looking at 33 hours etc

so yeah if you take small breaks no prob, but if you leave it off for a day or more you may be cutting it close.

You're definitely haulin' on the stats, what kinda rig are you running?

 

[mc68k]

You're definitely haulin' on the stats, what kinda rig are you running?

well not hauling anymore since the job switch

but my main home desktop rig is

gigabyte p35t-dq6
e8200 6mb cache @ 3.65GHz
ddr3 @1.82GHz

triple booting 10.5
hardy heron
and XP SP3

each folding step on a SMP unit takes about 10.5 mins