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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)
[ lamy + pilot ] [ arch64 | wmii ] [ ati + amd ]
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@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.
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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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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Welcome to the team superrad. Every CPU helps.
Pudge
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joined, waiting for my first percent...
Is it okay to suspend with f@h running?
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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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First percent after 1h and 15 min
Leaving compy on tonight.
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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
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
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Updated stats, now just add them to the first post:)
added a second compy.
Last edited by hatten (2009-04-16 15:05:25)
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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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F@H-smp on my AMD Phenom 9500, went to 1% in 10 mins
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KDE4 user
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F@H-smp on my AMD Phenom 9500, went to 1% in 10 mins
*is jealous
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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.
Registered GNU/Linux user #140607.
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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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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.
Registered GNU/Linux user #140607.
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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 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!!
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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?
Last edited by hatten (2009-04-23 20:39:46)
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hatten, Welcome to the team
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
Last edited by dmartins (2009-04-26 19:06:16)
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hatten, Welcome to the team
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
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!
Last edited by hatten (2009-04-26 20:08:04)
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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 .
Last edited by nebri (2009-04-26 22:11:59)
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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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REALLY!? never would have thought that, well I'm definitely gettin on board then .
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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
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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.
I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
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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!
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