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Virtual PCs - Bare Minimum For Functional Folding

What is the 'bare minimum system configuration ' for functional folding?
Never mind the "How many points will I get?" tact.

If a decent folding system can be run with 256Mb of RAM,
then a 1Gb RAM system could easily handle 2 virtuals running
concurrently with a primary 'actual' system.

I assume a Win'98 Virtual would be a better candidate than
a W2K Pro Virtual.

[Feb 5, 2005 5:04:19 AM]

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Re: Virtual PCs - Bare Minimum For Functional Folding

What do you mean by 'Virtual' ? as in mainframe sliced-up PC's ??? lol
search UD_Monitor for power users. As for US, we got 4,000 pointz last month for 156 hrs on a Work-Unit on a cheapo PIII-1800 w/ 256MB/1 gig Mass-storage [hardly touched this] Regards, Team Z

[Feb 5, 2005 5:23:29 AM]

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Re: Virtual PCs - Bare Minimum For Functional Folding

By 'Virtual', I mean 'Virtual PC' by Connectix or MS or whoever.

So it seems that even though 256Mb is "50%" of
the baseline standard, that it's still quite useful.

[Feb 5, 2005 5:31:01 AM]

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Re: Virtual PCs - Bare Minimum For Functional Folding

Rick Alther says that the working set for Rosetta is about 25 MB. From my own experience with Task Manager, that looks like an upper limit. The actual working set is often much smaller. Depending on what else is running, I would think that even 128 MB RAM would not be too small for respectable speed. Of course, you had better allow at least 512 MB disk space for Virtual Memory. And if you are running VMWare, etc. then at least 256 MB RAM seems indicated.

[Feb 5, 2005 9:25:46 AM]