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#301 2009-04-04 03:35:06

elmer_42
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Gah, I've got to stop folding for a little bit. The fan on the HSF for my processor has a crack right across the center and makes an awful noise when it has to cool a loaded CPU. Stupid Cooler Master!

e:My Freezer 64 Pro came in yesterday and I'm now folding. Yay.
e2:On my Windows partition I have my HD4850 folding for the Arch team.

Last edited by elmer_42 (2009-04-09 19:36:46)


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#302 2009-04-10 02:18:28

chestr
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

whaevr wrote:

@chestr

There is a wine package for x86_64..its bin32 wine

But you had that installed already..? Now your losing me.

What exactly did you do?

It was saying it coudnt install because of a failed 'wine' dependency.  But you are right i already had bin32-wine installed. So i ended up just editing the pkgbuild to take out wine of the dependency list.

But On the 2nd pc i tried it on it worked fine, so go figure!.   Also i cant rememeber the specifics but i had to copy one cudart.dll to one of the lib dirs.  After that i all worked. Once again on the 2nd pc it all worked first time from your aur package. 

I did however have to modify it a bit. As i have a pc with 3 9800gx2's, which needs 6 clients obviously. So i just changed the daemon init script to support all 6. ALso had to add a sleep 1 after each client was started. When all 6 were started up at the same time i would often get errors saying a process is already active. But adding the small pause inbetween starting each client fixed that.

Oh and while i think of it, one last issue i had with it is when setting up multiple gpus it just copies the client.cfg from the alpha folder. But that means all clients end up with Machineid = 2.  So you have to manually edit each config so they dont have same id's.  Other than that it seems to work perfect.      Here is 4 gx2's over 2 pc's running on arch.
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On another note i did a pacman -Syu last night and noticed the nvidia drivers are updated to 180.44.  Well this hosed all my gpu clients and made them EUE straight up. Going back to 180.29 fixed it.

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#303 2009-04-10 23:18:28

whaevr
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Alright thanks for that info!

I have never actually tried using the multiple gpu option as I only have 1 gpu to test it against..

Looks like I need to change things around some more.

Thanks!

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#304 2009-04-14 12:30:41

superrad
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Just setup F@H-smp on my AMD Phenom II x3 720, joined the arch team abviously

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#305 2009-04-15 00:32:33

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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Welcome to the team superrad.  Every CPU helps.

Pudge

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#306 2009-04-15 19:46:09

hatten
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

joined, waiting for my first percent...
Is it okay to suspend with f@h running?

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#307 2009-04-15 20:09:30

evr
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

hatten wrote:

joined, waiting for my first percent...
Is it okay to suspend with f@h running?

yeah f@h works fine for me after resuming from a suspend

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#308 2009-04-15 20:23:25

hatten
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

First percent after 1h and 15 min big_smile
Leaving compy on tonight.

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#309 2009-04-16 15:04:27

hatten
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

crouse wrote:

Time to try to recruit more help for the Arch Linux F@H team. Currently #135 we are slowly moving up the ladder, we need YOUR help big_smile  One machine or a hundred, they all help us move up the ladder and it's for a good cause !!

Now on 04-16-2009
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57        Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere #11298
82        TeamUbuntu #45104
135        Arch Linux #45032
157      KnoppMyth #50975
166      Team Firefox #39299
185      The PCLinuxOS Folding Team #50619
239      FedoraFolders #37988
257      Centos #48721
771      LinuxQuestions.org #12776
1059    openMosix #12355
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Updated stats, now just add them to the first post:)

added a second compy. smile

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#310 2009-04-19 14:21:45

elmer_42
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

I find it interesting that even though Ubuntu has a huge percent of the Linux distro market and Arch has a relatively small one, the Arch Linux team is only about 50 places down from the Ubuntu team. Great job, everybody!


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#311 2009-04-19 17:40:12

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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

F@H-smp on my AMD Phenom 9500, went to 1% in 10 mins


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#312 2009-04-19 18:06:13

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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

detox332 wrote:

F@H-smp on my AMD Phenom 9500, went to 1% in 10 mins

*is jealous sad

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#313 2009-04-20 23:43:30

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Registered: 2007-07-19
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Hi all,

My 64 bit client seems to be stalling after completing the work unit....

[20:56:19] Completed 250000 out of 250000 steps  (100%)     

Writing checkpoint, step 11250000 at Mon Apr 20 20:56:19 2009

Writing final coordinates.

Average load imbalance: 8.7 %
Part of the total run time spent waiting due to load imbalance: 5.8 %                                                         
Steps where the load balancing was limited by -rdd, -rcon and/or -dds: Z 0 %                                                 

        Parallel run - timing based on wallclock.
               NODE (s)   Real (s)      (%)     
       Time:  98029.000  98029.000    100.0     
                       1d03h13:49               
               (Mnbf/s)   (GFlops)   (ns/day)  (hour/ns)
Performance:     32.609      4.929      0.441     54.461

gcq#0: Thanx for Using GROMACS - Have a Nice Day

[20:57:21]
[20:57:21] Finished Work Unit:
[20:57:21] - Reading up to 21126384 from "work/wudata_06.trr": Read 21126384                                                 
[20:57:22] trr file hash check passed.                         
[20:57:22] - Reading up to 4502944 from "work/wudata_06.xtc": Read 4502944                                                   
[20:57:22] xtc file hash check passed.                         
[20:57:22] edr file hash check passed.                         
[20:57:22] logfile size: 183778                               
[20:57:22] Leaving Run                                         
[20:57:24] - Writing 26080690 bytes of core data to disk...   
[20:57:24]   ... Done.                                         
[20:57:29] - Shutting down core                               
^C                                                             
Folding@Home Client Shutdown.   

It just sits there until I stop it.

I am running version 6.02.

Any ideas?

All the best,

Diesel1.


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#314 2009-04-21 00:12:29

Pudge
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

diesel1;

I was having the same problem with F@H smp clients ALL failing.  Upgraded to the 6.24 Beta smp client, all problems disappeared.

My advice is, all 6.02 smp clients should be updated to 6.24 Beta, and all Windows GPU clients running on WINE should be updated to 6.23.  I haven't had a work unit fail since doing so.

Anyone running single core clients should probably also go to the Stanford site and see if newer clients are available.

Pudge

Edit:  BTW diesel1, I stopped work units in progress, upgraded to 6.24 Beta, restarted them and they all finished, sent back the results, and downloaded new WUs.  So upgrading in the middle of a WU does not appear to be a problem.

Last edited by Pudge (2009-04-21 00:15:35)

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#315 2009-04-21 07:36:22

diesel1
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Pudge wrote:

diesel1;

I was having the same problem with F@H smp clients ALL failing.  Upgraded to the 6.24 Beta smp client, all problems disappeared.

My advice is, all 6.02 smp clients should be updated to 6.24 Beta, and all Windows GPU clients running on WINE should be updated to 6.23.  I haven't had a work unit fail since doing so.

Anyone running single core clients should probably also go to the Stanford site and see if newer clients are available.

Pudge

Edit:  BTW diesel1, I stopped work units in progress, upgraded to 6.24 Beta, restarted them and they all finished, sent back the results, and downloaded new WUs.  So upgrading in the middle of a WU does not appear to be a problem.

Thanks Pudge,

I didn't even realise there was a new client.  I will upgrade at the next chance I get.

Many thanks,

Diesel1.


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#316 2009-04-21 20:12:34

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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Hi fellas, I have installed F@H on my server box now as finally I have a new heatsink/fan that can take care of my cpu properly it while it goes wild big_smile Very excited to contribute. I am going to install on my desktop as well so it runs whenever I'm not using, this is great!! smile

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#317 2009-04-23 20:37:38

hatten
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Hehe, i will never become a "good" folder, after 8 days with folding for 100 hours i have reached 71% xD (50 000 steps)
My other comp is worse, i calculated that it will take it about 600 hours to finish >_< (150 000 steps) That's a month running 24/7, and it doesn't >_<
I think at least i will stop folding at that one, but i may let it finish, how long is the deadline in most cases?
After calculating more, i realized my second pc is only half as fast as my main...but it is still slow =P
I told my main to use bigpackets (bigpackets=yes) (a mistake, i know) but not the other (bigpackets=no), but why did then the second get a three times bigger workload?

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#318 2009-04-26 19:03:17

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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

hatten, Welcome to the team wink
the options bigpackets in client.cfg are small, normal, and big. If you have bigpackets set to no, it might default to something other than small or be ignored all together.

And colbert: welcome as well smile

Last edited by dmartins (2009-04-26 19:06:16)

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#319 2009-04-26 20:07:33

hatten
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

dmartins wrote:

hatten, Welcome to the team wink
the options bigpackets in client.cfg are small, normal, and big. If you have bigpackets set to no, it might default to something other than small or be ignored all together.

And colbert: welcome as well smile

then the wiki needs editing!

bigpackets, defines whether you will accept memory intensive work loads. If you have no problem with Folding@Home using up more of your RAM, then set this to yes (at least 512MB of RAM recommended).

I'll maybe do that later


100th post, go me!

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#320 2009-04-26 21:16:02

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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

This looks awesome, and I'm all for the distrubuted computing power idea. But I do have a few questions on the computing part of this, particularly towards bandwidth usage..

just wondering how much in data size is each WU worth? I'm sitting on an AMD Quadcore Phenom 2.2 ghz on each core, so I have a lot of spare cpu cycles to push out, but at the same time I can see it being bandwidth intensive as well, just dont want to go past my cap tongue.

Last edited by nebri (2009-04-26 22:11:59)

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#321 2009-04-26 23:25:22

dmartins
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Hi nebri, the Folding@Home client only connects to the internet when it needs some more work to do, it's not always connected & passing data around. On a quad core, I would guess you could complete ~2 work units a day. You're maybe looking at 20MB a day in network usage.

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#322 2009-04-27 01:43:15

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REALLY!? never would have thought that, well I'm definitely gettin on board then smile.

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#323 2009-04-27 04:07:29

colbert
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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

I want to renice f@h to a low priority on my box just so that when myth is playing on a frontend, the playback isn't disrupted/laggy. What do I renice? the /etc/rc.d/foldingathome daemon or something else? I see in htop it's a fahcore_a0.exe or something. Thanks a lot smile

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#324 2009-04-27 06:52:40

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Is it worth it to run the GPU folder on a 8600GT?

If so I might set it up to run when my computer at work is busy with cpu-intense tasks.


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#325 2009-04-27 13:30:38

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Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

colbert, the client should already run at the 'nicest' setting of 19 unless you changed the core priority in the config to something other than 'idle'. You could try to renice fahcore_a0.exe, but I suspect it will already have a 19 in the NI column in htop.

Zeist, I have two 8600 GTs I tried using for a while. They can crank out some serious points compared to a CPU, Although a newer high end card could probably do more, an 8600 can still make a pretty significant contribution. I found my whole computer was lagged when folding on a GPU so I gave it up, but I'm pretty sure it was just a problem with the drivers/client at that point in time. You should give it a try! smile

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