graememk Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 So does setting the affinity on VMware instances improve preformance? is that the point to this app? to make that easier? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
personancog Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 wow i have wanted an affinity manager for months but i had no luck on google. thnxies!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 I don't know if the VMWare stuff is of any use, I don't have my Quad anymore, but as far as I remember, it's not dual instances of VMWare, but dual instances of Ubuntu in one VMware instance, unless you run it differently AJW. As for the regular clients, with each WU it downloads, the affinity of the cores is reset. Now this would normally not be a problem, but for whatever reason, if for example a regular CPU client is allowed to run on both cores, it will use 100% of one core, but also ban the other folding instances from about 20-25% of the other core. The affinity setter fixes this problem Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomOWL Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 I don't know if the VMWare stuff is of any use, I don't have my Quad anymore, but as far as I remember, it's not dual instances of VMWare, but dual instances of Ubuntu in one VMware instance, unless you run it differently AJW. I added the dual VMware support for ppl who run 2 VMware machines (Like me). Each VMware machine uses 2 cores, so run 2 & it makes use of 4 cores. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 Are you running two times VMWare, or one VMWare with dual instances of Ubuntu? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
graememk Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Are you running two times VMWare, or one VMWare with dual instances of Ubuntu? Im running two virtual machines in VMware ie two seperate operating systems, each running with one smp client. would it be useful to run the first instance on core 0 and 1 and second instance on 3 and 4? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 would it be useful to run the first instance on core 0 and 1 and second instance on 3 and 4? Assuming that core 0 and 1 are on the same die, yes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Yea, the question here is whether this program can go into VMWare and run one of the Ubuntu instances on core 0 and 1, and the other on 2 and 3? Cause I'm *thinking* this affinity setter is meant for running VMWare #1 onto core 0 and 1, and VMWare #2 on core 2 and 3. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomOWL Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Each VMware virtual machine has it's own 'vmware-vmx.exe' process. If u have 2 Virtual Machines running then there will be 2 'vmware-vme.exe' processes. So all my program has to do is set the affinity/priority of these processes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Alright then, that makes sense. I haven't run VMWare in a while Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Smith Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 Works great! Thanks I need to use it to set a higher affinity to my GPU2 client in order for it to not be slowed down by the SMP clients... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted February 12, 2009 Posted February 12, 2009 I'm still running it 24/7, very nifty little program AJW! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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