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Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have a somewhat related question, Do you have any recomendations as to how long the hard drive should be left on? Right now my hard drives shut off after 2 hrs. Is there a recomended time to preserve the hard drive? This machine is mostly idle (accept for running WCG). If you are running the Agent all the time, your hard drives will likely never go idle because we periodically write checkpoint files to the disk. The time between disk writes can range from minutes to hours. If you set the time short enough, it will go idle, but will wake back up again when we need to write. If you have more than one hard drive, the agent only writes to the drive it was installed on. The other will go to sleep (assuming nothing else is running that writes to that disk).
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I had better add that when I was wondering about multiple hard drives while dealing with an earlier query, I got a sudden flurry of advisory posts telling me that this was really a BIOS issue, and that most BIOS implementations treated all hard drives the same way. If one gets woken up, then all spin up together, even though it is unnecessary. Still, this really depends on your particular system.
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UNiRAC
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JD-icus,,, I feel yer PAIN....don't ask... no answers either way...
----------------------------------------we said earlier ...[ Re: UD.exe as a service + firewall ?I stop the UD.exe service and start the WCG agent from the Start menu, Sygate allows the connection Reply to this Post Reply with Quote [Delete this Post] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I [we] use Zonealarm [not Sygate] and have a router Firewall to-boot and ....I get this and worse restart ERRORZ w/ UD.exe on my REMOVABLE Drv., BUT my wifes' [USERid/install] 'install on the C: drv. never gets ANY errorz.! WTF! I have posted this B4.... BTW: I have a spare Linux machine to 'Heat up this cold house..... And... DARN... out of time to post or I'll loose it ! ps ALL fillez are on my flash drv and runs great until switchin' UserIDZ.... pss: Dial Up is the most pain/minutes that ya'll gotta live with. Keep-on-Computin' [or (60's) Truckin' [Dec 17, 2004 3:10:18 AM] .. But to get to my point... if I could go back to Win95 and make a SUPER-FAST-Ram-drv of about 1/2 gig FOR: virtual/paging/swap file ....And run on a cheap Flash-drv [$25/128MB] , , , whut say you ? ? ? {No More Stupid Slow/MS HD acessez}   Are You REALLY Computing?  |
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