What OS's are being used for folding?

[obujordan]

I was just wondering what OS's people are using for folding?  I tried Ubuntu, but I the machine to DSL because of the low overhead and RAM demands (it looks like I can fold with 32 MB of RAM).

[Ravage]

I'm currently running Ubuntu, but with quite a bit more ram than 32 megs.  It works great with either an smp client or gpu clients, but not so hot with both.

[jackrabbit]

32MB of RAM? That may be enough for the OS, but your folding client will find that greatly lacking.

To answer your question about the OS's: currently Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. Used to fold on Slackware, Debian and Windows XP.

[BrokenWolf]

I use Centos 5.x for most of my systems.  1GB of ram or more normally.

BW

[susato]

I have two systems on Snow Leopard, one on Tiger, a PPC G4 and G5 on Panther (my husband's computers) and two running Ubuntu.  I had two running Win XP for a while... should get them back up and running but life's been very busy lately.

[gannett]

I have Ubuntu 9.04 on the main folding machine - recently moved on to new i7 - 930 hardware. I had a go at GPU folding on Ubuntu 9.10 but gpu folding failed out of the box, probably a drivers issue. I can reboot same machine into win7 if needed.

Also running a Leopard Mac Mini & G5 but have stopped folding on G5 as it is quite slow and now sleeps and wakes up without crashing.

Looking at http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2979/bigadvppd.png you can see that Ubuntu is a popular choice for SMP and BigAdv folding. Getting multiprocessors to work together is a bit harder under windows but there is some beta work going on over in that space.

If the machine is of the vintage where 32MB was a normal memory size its processor speed may be a bit too slow to get much folding work done within deadlines.

Cheers

Gannett