Posts by doomie22

What do you mean when you say run as a root? Sorry but I am a Liunx noob.

I found the follow but got a file not found error when running the "mount..." command. Code: cat /proc/stat | awk 'BEGIN { TARGET_NCPUS=12 } ; { if ($1 == "intr") { for (i=NR-2;i<TARGET_NCPUS;i++) print "cpu" i S...

Quote:Originally Posted by ugotd8 Similar, yes. You do have to trick an OS into thinking you have 12 cores, but not windows or Vbox. The linux OS in the VM needs to be tricked. Lots of places on the interwebs to find the corehack...

Isn't setting the machine to 12 cores similar to how one would use the core hack into tricking the OS into thinking you have 12 cores when you actually only have 8 cores? That's what I was thinking since the guide mentioned "I7 quads"...

Quote:Originally Posted by ugotd8 You only have 8 cores, why did you set it to 12 ?So I can get bigadv WUs.

Unless I missed something; I grabbed the "Linux64_FAH-1.4.1.7z" file from the linuxforge link, downloaded VirtualBox 4.1.14(I even tried the newest version 4.1.16), created a new machine Linux 2.6 (64-bit), set ram to 6GB, pointed the...

This isn't working as great as I thought it would; I am getting half the pdd I usually get when running vmware w/ ubuntu 10.10. Thanks for your guide but it looks like I'll be switching back and since I am, maybe I'll give the newest...

Quote:Originally Posted by ugotd8 It's somewhere here in the thread... Find your VirtualBox.exe process in Task Manager and set the priority to low. EDIT: added to OPThat did the trick. Thanks!

Hi guys, frequent reader here and this thread caught my eye. I followed the guide but I am experiencing major computer lag when the folding client is running. Does anyone else experience any lag?