S@H and G@H at the same time ?

[AMC]

As anyone ever tried this ?

[-=Narcissus=-]

I didn't try it, but from the Stanford FAQs...

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Can I run Genome@home when SETI@home and/or Folding@home is running?

Yes. Genome@home should run fine while SETI@home and/or Folding@home is running, assuming that you have enough RAM for both.
</font>

Furthermore, some people have had some better production while running two instances of g@h (some, like me, got worst too), so it should work. This puzzles me though, since one instance of a program takes up about 99% of the CPU's resources...

But if I can remember correctly, someone tried this and saw that program priorities were not the same (both submissive), so what actually happened was that S@H stayed idle while G@H was computing, running only when g@H was uploading new data units.

So, it probably will work, but it probably isn't worth the hassle.

Someone back me up here!

Fred

[Guyver]

Consider yourself backed up Fred...

Fred is correct. It would not be worth the hassle - unless you are running under an SMP OS like Win2K and have 2 processors. Then you could dedicate 1 processor to each.

Guyver

[Rattledagger]

Well, I've always run seti@home alongside Genome@home...

The way I runs it is genome as "belownormal" and seti at idle. This way seti only does significant work then genome tries to connect or it crashes, or I pause genome.

If all is run as idle, most of the time they get equal cpu-time, but VLAR-wu in combination with affinity-lock don't work if seti & genome has the same priority.