Well, I finally went to the site and DL'ed the Linux client for my laptop. I started it up and it immediately took all my CPU. LOL!
My fan kicked in, and the heat went up. Wow.
So I turned on my work laptop (been sitting idle for a couple of weeks now), and DL'ed the windows client for it. It seems to work better.
So I'll let that machine just Fold while I work on my real laptop. :).
It currently says that I have about 208 days until the current Work Unit ends. :)
Unless you're running it on an XT, it probably won't take that long :-)
As far as the laptop/heat issue, yup, it will definitely increase the average temp of your laptop. I keep ksysguard running all the time on my laptop(s), and have set up the temp as one of the probes. You see a 10-20 degree increase when the folding client is running. You'd get similar results from some of the other similar projects like SETI@home or the GIMPS . My wife bought a few laptop pads with fans a while back. They really help a lot on laptops, and are good to use even if your CPU is idle, as they keep your lap from cooking. :-)
I wouldn't worry about the CPU going up to 100% usage though, as this is exactly what it is supposed to do. I've never noticed a slowdown on any of the computers I've got it running on. The only instruction that gets less priority on the box is the 'idle' instruction, so if you're doing anything else, FAH is preempted. You will notice your load average increase to at least one though, as FAH will be blocked when anything else is going on.
Note to anyone wanting to fold, turn off your screensaver! Why waste a cpu drawing a screensaver when it can be folding instead!
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You can adjust the CPU usage and I would recommend you lower it to 80-90% on a laptop. I also run it on a laptop and have no heat problems at 85%.
Just right click on the red cog and select "configure".