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MasterChief1234

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Registered: 2006-05-13

Posts: 49

Folding@home will not work

I want to participate in f@h so I installed it but it is not working. I installed the foldingathome package with pacman. I then added the "foldingathome" daemon to my rc.conf file. Then I configured it an setup my username and joined the Archlinux team. Did I miss a step ?

Ole Erik

Member

Registered: 2006-08-06

Posts: 85

Re: Folding@home will not work

Do you get an error?

MasterChief1234

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Registered: 2006-05-13

Posts: 49

Re: Folding@home will not work

Do you get an error?

No everything seemed fine. How many minutes (being idle) does it take for it to continue running ? I have gnome-screensaver installed too. Will that cause a problem ?

Pick2

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From: Illinois

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 55

Re: Folding@home will not work

The screen saver should not be a problem , but FAH runs at Nice 19 , so System Sleep and the various power conserving settings will slow it down.
if you look with Top in a terminal , you should see a Core running at close to 100%.   i.e.  FahCore_78.exe   - FahCore_79.exe

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND 
16046 knoppix   28  13  121m 102m 1392 S    0 10.5   0:00.00 FahCore_78.exe                           
16045 knoppix   39  19  121m 102m 1392 R  100 10.5 421:46.17 FahCore_78.exe                           
16044 knoppix   28  13  121m 102m 1392 S    0 10.5   0:00.00 FahCore_78.exe                           
16043 knoppix   28  13  121m 102m 1392 S    0 10.5   0:01.07 FahCore_78.exe                           
16039 knoppix   25   0 26656  828  592 S    0  0.1   0:08.67 fah5

OK , you can laugh about the live boot Knoppix if you want

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