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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Rick,
Please tell us another story about tollbooths and tractor-trailers and cars. That last one was good. night, night, dreplogle |
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Former Member
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Thank you Mycroft (Sherlock's smarter brother, of course).
What you're saying makes sense - I couldn't quite grasp how it could be how the OS (Task Mangler) reports the Intel threading, 'cause it would mis-report every app, not just some. And you're idea of running a virtual environment is an excellent one - already running Virtual PC 2004 SP1 on this box. While writing this, I installed the WCG client on that VM, so I could set the affinity for that process to the VM, but I didn't have to; both 'processors' are running at 100% now.  I've got another question, although this might now be the right forum to ask - please let me know which might be better: On every machine I've installed this today, from a PIII 550 up, with drives of 8 GB to 250 GB, all report only .98 Storage (Main page, Device info). Is this normal, have I misconfigured something, should I be concerned? |
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Former Member
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Hello Steerpike_ca,
Wow, you really are busy! The 0.98GB is easily explained. So far our projects seem to use no more than about 50 MB per work unit. By default, the standard installation authorizes the WCG to use no more than 1 GB of disk storage, though you can change that maximum authorization in your device profile. However, the programs running on the server have different units. The authorization program asks for 1,000,000,000 bytes (1 GB). The status reporting program uses the official 2**30 bytes = 1 GB, so it reports that you have authorized 0.98 GB (which is 1,000,000,000 bytes). Since we use far less than this authorized maximum, it is just a peculiarity, like the different round-off algorithms used for computing points on the client and the server. |
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Former Member
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Ah! Again, that makes some degree of sense.
Thank you again Mycroft!!! |
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