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drezha
12-06-2006, 03:10 PM
WARNING: This is still in Beta...Ie I'm testing it. Also Standford would prefer you not to.

Now I don't recommend doing this but sometimes having a queue going is the only way way to garuntee work 100% time. (Sorry standford, but it's gotta be done at times)

Now this work around means you may miss deadlines. Don't blame me. It'll take you longer to complete a unit (because you'll have it sat on you HD for a bit longer) but wont slow processing down.

It relies on a little program called UDMon.
Download (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/udmon/udmon-4.45.exe?download)
Main Page here: UDMon (http://udmon.sourceforge.net/)

Now extract it to where you want it. It doesn't require installing and it doesn't write to the system registry at all so to get rid of, delete it's folder.

When it's in the direcory you want it, start it with the udmon-fah batch file or create a shortcut to with the -fah flag added to startup
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/drezha/UDMon.png

When it's started, you'll be asked to browse to the FAH folder and select the FAH console. When thats done, your all sorted for getting things going.

UDMon has cache option but we'll not use that. It only gets deadline less units that are currently discontinued.

FAH shouldn't be installed as a service for this. If it is, uninstall it as a service.
The option we're looking for is Cache Exhaustion.
If you wish the machine to switch itself off, then select the shutdown windows option.
But if you want a clue, your going to have to select run another program.

In this we simply add a direction to a FAHConsole elsewhere on the drive.
For example download and put the FAH-Console50x.exe file into two folders

Create /FAH/Cache1
Create /FAH/Cache2

When you started UDMon you'll have poited it at

Create /FAH/Cache1/FAH-Console504.exe


now in the run a program, put in the FAH-Console504.exe in Cache2. When you confiure the clients, both must have different machine ID's and use the -local flag when starting them up.

Run both console's when you have an internet connection. Now you'll have a queue of two. I don't recommend you download more than a queue of two.
If you select "...and stop the FAH client", it'll shuit down the first instance of FAH and stop it interfering with second instance.

Is it worth being put in the sticky?