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Originally Posted by GAM
:rofl:
Now I see why you said you think I shouldn't get that cheap A64 system, you don't want me pulling ahead even more :D
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Originally Posted by GAM
:rofl:
Now I see why you said you think I shouldn't get that cheap A64 system, you don't want me pulling ahead even more :D
:rofl: NO! I don't! But... nevertheless, it was still sound advice :cool:
I'm not going to be touching on your points in any forseeable future :sad:
Hehe well I agree with you on that advice though, I'm gonna save for that watercooling setup. But don't think I won't be watching my rearview mirror, in case you throw another system or two online to try and sneak up on me ;) :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by GAM
Hey embeejay, you awake? :poke: Your PPD has crashed man, what happened?
AngryPickles is back! :woot:
Thought you disappeared on us, glad to see the numbers coming in again :toast:
Its good to be back :woot:Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
So what happened that you disappeared for a little while, if you don't mind me asking? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by AngryPickles
Hey great to see you again AP :wave: :D
:toast: :YIPPIE: Angry Pickles overtook me again... :brick: I should really put my rigs on, but I got now the new Swiftech-wc goodies... just need some more parts... freaking shops here keep the stocks low :nono:
...my alucase project comes on... in the near future :shakes: :weapon:
Good job overtaking me in the dailies Windforce :clap: :moon: It's likely to stay that way until I've re-overclocked my main rig e6400, and that box spends a lot of time gaming at the weekend too anyways.
And props to the team as a whole, we're punching out over 50K a day recently, we've gone a nice shade of red :up: :banana:
Thanks! I would have been cruising at 6-7 k in the dailies, if it weren't for 2 rigs that died on me, and my main one ( x2 4800 , 2 GB OCZ Gold XTC, on phase at near 3.0Ghz ) is crashing like mad since i installed Vista Ultimate on it:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by jimwah
On another note, just got my hands on a nice E6700, and i expect to put this one on water in a few weeks :D
Great numbers going up for the team guys :thumbsup:
Unfortunately my numbers are about to crash :( I'm still having so many problems with my system, so now I am going to RMA my motherboard and my X1900XT. I don't know which it is that is causing trouble but some of the symptoms have been pointing to one or the other, so I'm RMA'ing them both to make sure I get the problem.
Yeah i had to pull the plug on my c2d box here at home since it started behaving oddly... actually have been batteling with this machine for a while now and i am afraid i somehow messed up my cpu through OCing :/Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
Regular operations are fine, but anything that has to do with encryption and/or compression has something like a 2% failure rate all of a suddon (down from close to 15% when i was still OCing/running F@H).
I have completely disabled all overclocking on the system now, and even had to raise the vcore from the default to make it run close to stable... somehow the cpu just feels a bit too much like pentium 90 these days :(
At first i thought it was a software problem, but the problem persists across win xp and linux and is giving me heeps of trouble since a lot of encryption and compression goes on on my system... try to think how you'd feel if every time you use an ssl website there is a chance your browser crashes, or that everytime you try to unzip something there is a chance you have try unzipping it 20 times before you computer doesn't choke on it.... trust me it's no fun :(
crc32 and md5 checks are no longer reliable on my system... nothing is really, and it is killing me *starts crying like a baby*
Problem is... i have no clue if it is actually a hardware problem, and c2d's aren't really cheap so i'm afraid of wasting the money on a new one just to find out it doesn't fix the problem *sigh*
Wow man that sucks :( Do you know anyone else with a 775 mobo that you could test your CPU in?
Damn that sounds annoying, we've all been through it man, sometimes computers can make you want to live in the woods & eat berries & go back to simpler times eh :bsod:
Have you tried running memtest86 in there, and some Orthos maybe - I find the various Orthos tests can be useful in finding the where the problem lies, RAM or CPU, or maybe mobo, if neither big fft or small ffts runs properly. You've probably had fun trying all these things already, but I thought I'd mention 'em.
It got busy at work and the noise of 3 computers going 24/7 got annoying so i decided to scale back a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
Then my 3rd rig died with some sort of toxic ooze bubbling out of the motherboard, and I did a reformat of my moms computer and forgot to reinstall f@h as a service, so I went 4 weeks with out any points.
Now that work is quiet I had some time water cool my main rig and my 2nd comp in a different room, its much quieter, and i got a 1900xt 512meg cheap off ebay to throw in my 2nd comp, just need to get f@h back on my moms computer and tell her to leave it on 24/7 :D
Nice output AP, sounds like it's set to improve too :up:
Let us know how you get on with the new e6700 Windforce, I've got to re-overclock my e6400 (I've ditched the horrible P5N32-Sli SE for a P5N-E Sli, a much better board). I thought the overclock was making games crash, but running at stock I found it seems to have been caused by an out of date DirectX9 - so I should be back on 3.2Ghz with that soon hopefully, very close in the dailies between you & me at the moment :hrhr: :D
so much for me hoping to pass pickles :rolleyes: ;) Especially after the main rig died... blah.
Waahhh I fell down to green stats now.. :(
It's been awefully quiet over here :stick: anyone home? :poke:
I'm always about mate :p: I've noticed some relatively new names on the dailies too, Scott, mawsoccer, Firedart, shout up guys & make yourselves known :up: maybe I just missed the introductions but the names don't look familiar.
Yeah I saw them too, seems that we've got some mysterious crunchers. Speak up guys, we want to meet you :toast:
Umm......
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What has happened to the stats? Sudden crash, build back up some, then an even deeper crash! :confused: This isn't good... hmm maybe Angra's cluster is getting some more usage right now. And then I don't know what happened to mmnp or mele and AngryPickles dropped like a stone as well :(
Hopefully this is just an anomaly and things will go back to normal...
:eek: The eoc stats site is struggling to load from here at the moment... I had a look at free-dc's page
Maybe we are getting caught up with some heavy units that are making the stats spike :shrug: My stats have been up & down a lot more recently, I jumped from ~1k to ~7k for a few days, where normally I've churning out a fairly consistant 3k-5k.
regarding my cluster...I have been running the same 16 AMD64 dual-proc nodes for a while now...I did have to reboot the NFS server, and I think the compute nodes freaked out, and possibly lost all their in-progress WU after that. my production has been way down the last couple of days, but hopefully it'll spike sometime soon to average it out.
OK glad to know it is just a temporary drop.
Apparently all of mmnp's points came in all at once last night so his production is normal.
About my drop in points
My water cooling rig loop leaked on my x1900xtx :mad: so i have that rig in pieces i hope to have it back together later this week, still don't know if the card is still ok tho :(
My 2nd computer with a x1900xt randomly crashes, exits programs, freezes, corrupts files and programs, and eue's gpu work units. I think/hope its the mobo and i can just replace that if not i can throw both cards in one box.
Yeah I know what you mean... is this phuking team dying :confused:... oh well... I haven't been around myself...Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
...but folding is what counts, right? Production appears to be constant.
Yeah production for the most part has been good except for some rough spots here and there. Would be nice if there was more chit-chat going on though, like in the WCG section.Quote:
Originally Posted by sc00p
I've been crunching some for WCG as well, as a thank-you for their help near the end of our race. I've thought about it and decided that I think I'll keep a few systems over there since they are in a long drawn-out uphill struggle to #1. It's kind of nice to crunch for both groups actually. But this summer will determine whether I stay crunching for both or if I move back over to F@H totally - the electric bill at home is definitely higher when I have all the systems running there. At school it doesn't matter but home it does. Depending on my income over the summer I may or may not be able to pay for the extra, and if I can't I'll have to shut several systems down (not all of them though). If I have to shut several down I will most likely put all the systems I can run on F@H. Depending on how many I keep running I may leave one on WCG.
Guess we'll have to wait and see.
Heya guys, I'm still here but I haven't been visiting XS so much recently, caught up on preparing worklogs and a forum post building program over at OzCaseMods and OCAU.
Sorry I haven't taken the time to check in and say 'hello' ;)
My output should be consistent except for the odd day when my wife forgets to plug the ethernet cable back into HTPC! I went away last weekend and noticed HTPC was trying to get new work for two days!!! Doh.
L8r
Well GAM in case you haven't noticed you have a chance to try and pass me since my main rig is down, and I'm on spring break so most of the dedicated crunchers are offline until next week ;)
In case you didn't see this, check this thread out - I think you deserve to be in the XC group! Hey, if I got in, you can get in, no doubt about it :)
Cheers mate, enrolled. ;)
I had noticed your current pitiful effort, but as much as I'm whipping these bastard machines, they're not going any faster ;) Stay this way for another 2.5 months are we may have a show down.
Whip marks are creating a nice case effect though. :hrhr:
Well I got an email from Asus today saying that they shipped my board so I should have that soon. Now, just to get my GPU back too... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by GAM
Sorry mate, I neglected to console you too, as much as I appreciate the opportunity to catch up. I hate it when hardware fails. I was a few weeks without my DQ6, early in the piece, and I hated it. I've had two drives fail recently. A 200GB Seagate 7200.8 SATA full of audio and video (out of warranty) and 1x250GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA2 that has been replaced (nothing lost as I had only just backed up to it). I just have to go and collect it now (45mins each way, driving!).
But, them's the breaks. Good luck with the new board.
GAM on Sparky... how on earth you didn't fix that board yourself :D
Re-overclocked my e6400 to a fairly sedate 3200mhz last night - VMware frame times down from 20mins a frame to ~14mins a frame on the biggies (2604/5 iirc) :D
It's looking pretty tight around the 100k to 200k mark at the moment, great to see so much good production & battles kicking off :p:
Congrats Jimwah on taking 3rd place on the team. :toast:
Thanks Big Deel I appreciate that :toast: I've been pretty busy here & there on the folding front recently...Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Deel
I've actually cut down the number of boxes running this week - a suspect P4 2.66 has been taken off (found it stone dead, possible PSU gone) and my howling Opty 144 (powered by the antec psu with 80mm & 92mm fan at full tilt in it). The noise reduction from taking off the Opty was amazing, that thing was loud! I've also migrated most remaining boxes to Fedora linux, regardless of SMP CPU or not. Oh & I put my little Sempron back on.
Currently in the works is a rebuild of my PD805, 1gig DDR2, P5N board, 6200LE graphics. Testing the power consumption will decide whether this goes back on at home with SMP, or I try to blag it at work as some kind of 'development' box & get it folding 2 normal clients there :p: Either that, or I buy something a little more power efficient :hrhr:
@Sparky & GAM & AP! how are your repairs going? shame about the Seagate's dying GAM, I got a few duff Maxtor's recently, and I understand they are the same company now iirc. Although I'm lucky with spare parts, if something dies I pick up a new one at work & put it on my tab.
Keep folding guys, after a bizarre points crash yesterday we've come back fighting with 61k done in the last 24hrs :up:
My replacement mobo came back from Asus, they sent me a new one instead of trying to repair my old one which is good. Now I'm just waiting on newegg to send me the replacement gfx card. They no longer had any X1900XT 512MB cards so they upgraded me to a X1950XT with an accelero X2 preinstalled. Once I get that I'll be putting better numbers up again. Also once spring break is over I'll have my dedicated crunchers running again as well.
JIMWAH! :stick:
YOU HAD 3RD PLACE AND 500K... YOU SHOULD MAKE MORE NOISE OF YOURSELF M8 :mad: (englishmen ;)) :slapass: :clap: :wtf: :D :party:
And Sparky... I had in dreams I could run away from you but seems tough task :)...
...lets see I'm going to try... prob no success cause I've ~week sudden delay :brick:
I got my windows smp client running project 2651 and its not on that list...whats the dealio?Quote:
Originally Posted by jimwah
Update fahmon with the latest unofficial built, and download the seperate SMP psummary as described on this page :toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by TopherTony
:lol: Thanks for making a noise sc00p :up: :D Good to see your blue stats again too, the black & grey didn't suit you :p:
Here's the stats on the Win SMP units Tony:
Project 2610: 1523 points, deadline 4 days
Project 2651: 1760 points, deadline 4 days
Project 2652: 1148 points, deadline 3 days
Hopefully they will appear in the points page soon.
Pff I made this post but forgot to add the link to it :slap:Quote:
Originally Posted by MartianInvader
http://fahmon.fahinfo.org/
thx for the link MartianInvader ;)
If the stats are working properly now, I'm still hanging on to the top 20 producers by the skin of my teeth - I'm 20th :p:
Hang on in there Sparky! :) The stats are still a bit borked, I think I read upates might on a 6 hourly basis, rather than 3 hourly, from Stanford's servers now :( I'll check that when I get a minute...
I've had this e4300 sitting around for too long now, got to get a BIOS update sorted then hopefully get ~340fsb out of this nf4 board for another >3Ghz C2D on for XS :D
Yeah the stats are still screwed up. Looks like the overall team stats are working OK now, but it hasn't registered the 2nd WU I submitted yesterday and the one that uploaded early this morning. Something still isn't right.
sometimes one or two of the WU servers are slower to update and become part of the stats than the others, i have noticed this myself on a number of occasions, where a wu i have returned didn't show up in the stats until many hours later, although others did
Somehow I doubt though that you haven't submitted results today either ;)
exactly my point :) Loads of peoples WUs from today are part of the stats, but ours aren't - so we have probably talked to a few of the laggy servers today ;)
I have no doubt i'll see my WU's from today in the stats tomorrow - i am pretty used to it being that way tbh
EDIT: uhm seems i might have been way off - the teamstats are updatiung the individual stats aren't it seems - must be another statsserver problem then.
I just got fold3 back online. In a new form :D Got tired of fold3 crashing all the time so it had been down for about 2 weeks. Now I just replaced it with an A64 2800+ which should perform better I'd think. I repaired a 3000+ which went in someone else's system, and that 2800+ from there came to me. I'll have to watch it though, this asrock board it is in has some trouble - the AGP slot is totally dead, if I put an AGP card in it the system won't even power on. As long as that is the only problem though that is fine, I just put a PCI card in there anyway! If the rest works, I get the board for $10....
Now a question, currently it is running in open air and load temps hit 56C. This is a 130nm newcastle CPU, and I know once I get it put in the box where it belongs it'll run a few degrees warmer and may hit 60C. Is this OK for these 130nm chips? If not I can spend an extra $10 and get a stock cooler from an FX-70 with quad heatpipes :D Currently it is on the same cooler that the celeron was on - I don't know why, but asrock had put this strange bracket on the board that had socket 478 heatsink mounting along with the standard socket 754/939 nubs :confused: But hey, if this cooler is enough for it then it saves me $10 :p:
I'd invest in a propper cooler if i was you... $10 is pretty cheap to keep your cpu alive if you ask me :)
On the other hand the cpu should be able to do 60C, but then i always try to err on the side of caution.
Yeah that is kind of what I was thinking. You'd think that this heatsink from the celeron could keep it cool enough since it looks to be roughly the same size as the stock A64 sink but maybe it isn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by embeejay
My folding output seems to have fallen by about 200+ points a day. I don't understand why because I'm using the same hardware at the same operating frequencies.
Awhile ago I used to get 1800 PPD. Look at my stats now, can you believe that? Granted my main rig isn't at full speed right now because I'm lacking my X1900XT. But that only accounted for about 700PPD, where did the other 500 go?Quote:
Originally Posted by IanY
Different projects, that is where it went. Certain WU's give better PPD. The 212x WU's are notorious. 1166, 1167, 1495-1499 are all good ones, although they cut a hunk out of the original pointage of the 1495 and 1497.
So right now what I've been seeing come through are the 212x and 303x projects, with a scattering of other random things. That is why the PPD is lower.
Long winded way of answering lol :p:
I'm back up and running! :woot: Got my mobo and my new X1950XT put in. Crunching full steam now :D
Excellent. Hey that MaSoccer has been whipping up the charts. I noticed he has very few work units relative to overall score. How do you think that happens? I know part of it is no EUE's but geez.
Also, for 5 hours I am getting this. I can;t keep my cores busy.
[13:13:09] + Attempting to get work packet
[13:13:09] - Connecting to assignment server
[13:13:15] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[13:13:15] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[13:13:16] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[13:13:16] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[13:13:16] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[13:13:16] - Error: Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[13:14:09] + Attempting to get work packet
[13:14:09] - Connecting to assignment server
[13:14:22] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[13:14:22] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[13:14:23] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[13:14:23] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[13:14:23] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[13:14:23] - Error: Attempt #5 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
Chas: it's because he only runs the smp client - check out my daily score - i run 3 smp clients, on 2 * c2d and 1 * p4 with HT (it has emt64 and runs linux, otherwise it'd be too slow for the smp client). the smp clients give alot higher ppd than the normal clients.
Regarding that assignment servers... that sucks, i have no clue why you have that problem..
Oh no.... came back from class to a BSOD :( PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA - now what?! Some ATI file was listed, I'm running the catalyst 7.3's on my X1950XT, anyone have any trouble with these drivers?
If it happens again I'll take a pic with my camera and post it so you can see everything it said - and so I don't have to write it all down by hand :p: Bummer, I was hoping my troubles were gonna be over :(
looks like a ram-error to me... whats your OC?
312x9 with a 133 ram divider to put the ram at 207.5 according to the math, CPU-Z reports 200.6 though. My ram won't OC worth a crap so I have to use a big divider. Major timings are still at default too, 2.5-3-3-6 with a 1T command rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by embeejay
not that I am a wiz on this point, but I'd try to relax the timings a bit if I was you. These days i tend to opt for stability over speed
@Sparky
Sorry to hear that mate. I've been dealing with own similar issues lately. I've been getting a lot of BSODs and other funny errors like 'Registry loaded from a recent backup or log' (corruption) and the like. After a :banana::banana::banana::banana:load of frigging around with drivers etc, I finally discovered that one of my HZ sticks was dying/dead--after testing with Memory Diagnostic I saw lots of errors. I've removed the culprit, currently running on 1x1024MB, and everything is fine again. Although because of the damage sustained while the dodgy stick was dying I've since rebuilt my OS. Had it all done with main apps and settings in a couple of hours now that I have a decent image (Ghost) and using XP's Files and Settings Transfer Wizard. This used to take a very long day or more and then nuisance installs/updates for days/weeks thereafter.
All is rosy now. This happened last Wednesday evening. I tried to get replacement RAM on Thursday but the :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty supplier duped me. They implied the courier hadn't arrived yet, but as soon as I confirmed payment (within minutes of talking to them) they claimed the courier had been and gone. I expect the replacements to arrive tomorrow.
We've just had a four day long weekend for Easter so this was a real bummer.
Anyway, run a diagnostic on memory for a start.
btw, I'm losing my grip on the rankings. 15 down to 16 now, and soon to be dropped back to 18th!!! :mad:
I've run memtest before through 12 passes and no errors.... If I have another BSOD I'll try running it again. I did tweak a setting in the BIOS.
On another note, I see that pythagoras has really pumped up his daily output! :wtf: Guess he didn't like the idea of some of these other guys coming for him :D
Are you using memtest for windows? I find that it will break there when it doesn't show a problem on memtest/dos, etc.
Lookie Here :fact:
Also sorry got no one to harass here :D
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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
Memtest for windows? I didn't know there was such a thing. I've always downloaded and burned the bootable ISO file (or the ultimate boot CD).Quote:
Originally Posted by mad mikee
Fold3 seems to be enjoying its new form :D Fold1 got a boost from 900MHz to 1.1GHz, and fold6 got a jump from the 1.1GHz to an Athlon XP 2500+ - which I found out was the golden stepping and is basically a XP 3200+ in disguise! Set the FSB from 166 to 200MHz and it took instantly and so far is rock solid at 2.2GHz :woot: It is one of my WCG crunchers so it won't affect stuff here at F@H but still it's a good thing :)
I've got some new nicknames for you Sparky, 'Swap n Go', 'Mix n Match', 'Treasure Hunter'... ;)
You're on the ball aren't ya'! Way to go mate.
sparky: wcg? Now i know why your daily ppd is so low - i always thought all your machines ran f@h and i couldn't figure out why you didn't hand in more wu's, but now i see you are partly on the dark side, which explains so many things :D
Yeah ever since our race with TPR ended I've been helping them out as a thank-you. There has been a WCG stats bar in my sig for awhile now, how did you miss that? Blind in one eye, can't see out the other? ;) :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by embeejay
If I was to put all my systems to F@H then there would probably be a decent boost in my PPD, since the WCG crunchers are fold6, fold7, and fold8, which are some of the fastest systems I have. Fold7 is built mainly from parts that I got from the spare parts thread they have so it was obligatory to make sure that one went on WCG anyway, the other two are there to keep it company ;)
Will I go completely back to F@H? Maybe, but I kind of like being in two projects at once since I have enough horsepower to do so. But F@H is my #1 project, so if I have to shut down several of the systems (I might have to due to the electric bill :() then what I still have running will be on F@H.
yeah i did notice that part of your sig, but shrugged it of as temporary insanity :D Just kidding i think it's great you are helping out on wcg as well, and when all is said and done i care a lot more for our team stats than my personal stats - the fact that mawsoccer just raced passed me meant nothing but joy ;)
Yeah it is temporary insanity to a point, but I kinda like being insane :D Two projects means two great groups of people I get to be a part of.Quote:
Originally Posted by embeejay
Mawsoccer is about ready to crunch me in a couple days, nothing I can do to stop him either. Even if I dragged all my systems back to F@H it would only put it off a couple days, if that. Shame for my personal stats since there will be that ugly red arrow there, but good for the team as a whole. Really wish that he would show up here and say hello.
A quick question for the folks with more systems folding then they have displays... how do you monitor the systems.
I have an old Celeron which could be added to my folding array, but I do not have enough displays for it. A KVM switch isn't really practical here, so what can I do?
Is it a case of set it up with display, remove display, then leave it be?
If it is XP you can log in remotely with RDP. Linux has a similar system for the console. I dunno about all the GUI's. No need for a monitor on a machine these days.
Yeah RDP is a straightforward choice for XP, anything older & I use VNC - usually RealVNC, although I think there are a few variants of it. You can also set up a shared folder on you f@h directory & use a program like FAHmon to monitor the progress across the network from another machine :)
Does RDP require XP Pro? This machine is running Pro, but my Celeron box is running XP Home. I'm hoping it is that straightforward, because my networking knowledge/ability is rather bare minimum.
I have of course overlooked the fact that my Celeron box has no network connectivity. I'm running a wireless network, and don't have a Wireless adapter available to hand, so I'd have to get that sorted.
I'll look into the alternatives mentioned in the mean time, thanks for the help.
You can't use remote desktop to log into XP Home unfortunately.
I hate my PC. My system froze last night when I touched the case :( What the heck could it be? New case, new PSU, new mobo, new gfx card... Maybe my CPU is to blame? I did remove the IHS, and there is some arctic silver stains on the top of the chip around those little chips from an accident. Could that be a problem, and if so how do I remove it?? it won't wipe off with alcohol. But how would a small static discharge to the case affect the CPU? Or RAM? I'm at my wits end :(
I haven't been having much luck with sorting my network out, so I've abandoned it temporarily.
I'm now trying to get GPU folding working on my new system, and am wondering if someone could answer a quick question for me.
The Stanford FAQ implies that GPU folding is not intended to be running 24/7, making installing it as a service seeming like a bad idea. How do people use it? Is it a case of manually start when you turn on, then leave it minimised until you need to do something graphically intensive?
As a side note, what about SMP folding? My current processor is a Pentium D, but I'll soon be upgrading to a Core 2 Duo. Is SMP folding a more appropriate route to take at this point in time?
Thats pretty much how I run all clients, including the GPU client, no problems here. I understand using ctrl-c in the fah window is the cleanest way to stop the client when you need the GPU/CPU to be free :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by mk5652
Simple answer imo, yes :) I am hoping to balance an SMP client & a GPU client on my main rig soon, which is not something I have tried yet - or read a great deal about, but at the moment I just run SMP on my C2D's. But consider that SMP is still in its infancy, has big units to upload (half decent internet speed req'd), & currently has tight deadlines; if these things are alright then go SMP.Quote:
Originally Posted by mk5652
Oi! Windforce! ease off! I'm sad enough about mawsoccer dropping me in the dailies, without you sneaking up & out-folding me! I'd better hoof this P5N32 out the window asap, get this lovely P5N-E installed, and get some overclocking done :D
LOOL...I should have been there a while back, but i had 3-4 rigs where clients unexpectedly shut down on me, just noticed it a few days ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimwah
I also added my brand new C2D E6700. It's on water and running @ 3.2 since the day i installed ( yes, this chip has not seen stock in its life ) so i wouldn't call it overclocked. If i have time this week-end i'll start overclocking it correctly :D
Finally, i have 2 more rigs waiting ( 3.0 Ghz HT with 1 GB ) to be installed this week , so you better hurry...;)
You'd better keep an eye on Mawsoccer too Jimwah, he's gunning for you! ;)
Side note: System been fully stable (games, F@H, everything) for over 24 hours! :D
Woo hoo, finally back in the red for a change!!!
And on the top 20 daily's too ;). I don't think I've been there for awhile. I doubt it will last long so I'm going to lap it up for bit. :surf:
FYI, there's been no changes, no additions here. The only difference is that I'm finally getting some decent WUs this week! My main clients have been pissing around with circa 200ppd's for ages (months?). It's a far cry from the circa 500ppd's that Main can do and is doing this week. I can't fathom why there is a such a difference in PPD on the same machine from one WU to the next?!? :confused:
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Originally Posted by jimwah
Damn....power cut 3am last night. All boxen off this morning :( The P5-B wouldn't fire up & after a quick check I think it's safe to conclude that a stick of my 512mb Team Xtreem 800mhz stuff has died - thus concludes my ownership of perhaps the worst pair of 800mhz DDR2 ever made, that would barely run at their stock timings & speed. I'm off to buy a few sticks of OCZ in a minute ;)
Sorry to hear that jimwah. You know, most systems allow you to set an option in the BIOS that if there is a power loss the system will turn back on automatically when power comes back. The default is for it to stay off but you can set it to turn on (which I think makes it turn on as soon as you plug it in too) or to return to last state, so if it was off it stays off but if it was on it turns back on. That way, in case of a power failure the systems will kick back on by themselves. Just an idea.
But I dont think the SMP clients are installable as a service - but yeah you're right, these are the kinds of tasks I was trying to get sorted on all boxes this weekend. It has turned into a case of firefighting the problems that have turned up instead. My production will dip for quite some time until I can get this stuff sorted & get a decent upload speed on my connection - the whole problem of testing overclocks in linux is annoying me too. I need CoreTemp CPUz Orthos etc to test my setup, only then can I install linux64 imo - a long process on new rigs. I'm working on it :D
True they don't like being a service, but you could put the shortcut to it in your startup folder so that the system loads it automatically upon bootup.
I've been torn between whether to bring all my crunchers back here to F@H or not. I put fold6, fold7, and fold8 over on WCG in the beginning as a thank you for their help in our race vs TPR. Actually it started off with fold7, added fold6 later, then built fold8 and stuck that there as well (since the CPU and RAM came from the spare parts thread over there I felt obligated to put it on WCG at least in the beginning, CPU was a repair job). F@H is my home project, yet it is kinda nice to have enough CPU power to be a part of two teams and still manage to keep decent stats in both. I've done my share of harassment over there :D
Opinions? If I can only run one or two of the systems this summer then those few will be F@H only. If I can run them all I don't know what to do...
Stick to WCG until I catch up ;)
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Originally Posted by GAM
+1 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by GAM
Do whatever makes you enjoy all the crunching most :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
Big Battle going on down if 56th spot, NewEng... your about to freaking go down dude.
And FAH Sparky, you can't be good at everything :-)
If I can run all the systems this summer, and GAM or mele or any of the others start getting too close for comfort, I'll put all my power back here to fend them off :D
Right now mele is still coming for me, Oblie is chasing after me for passing him earlier, embeejay is after me, Chas_the_Man is really flying, and GAM is gunning for me - again :rolleyes: :p:
I can't do much about Oblie or Chas_The_Man, or probably embeejay once he gets all his systems working again, but I may be able to hold mele and GAM off. Especially GAM, held him off before (barely though!) so I should do it again. Ya know, taunt him, make him think he might be able to pass me, then pour on the heat and leave him in the dust again :D :D
That'd be right Sparky, lull me into a false sense of security and then crap all over me again :moon: :p: HAHA.
Naturally I wasn't serioius about catching you but I have noticed you on my radar again (6 months :rolleyes:). This is all due to some nice WUs for a change. As mentioned before, absolutely no changes to my systems etc and recently I've nearly doubled my PPD.
On the other hand, Scoop, my old friend... :hehe:
Currently 1.1 months till 'Poocs' day, but I'd imagine it will end up more like 2 ;)
btw, after 7 patient days, 'Server' just dropped two bundles of joy, 682pts + 755pts. Brought me near 3000pts for one day. Nice. I wish I could do that every day :rolleyes:
Well right now I'm having crazy spikes and plunges in my PPD, partly due to messing around with the systems (upgraded a couple, worked on another one, one was down for a few days, etc) and timing, seems that lately they've all uploaded on the same day a few times in a row and left me nothing for the next day.
Just remember GAM, you get too close and I've got backup firepower... :hehe:
GAM... you can eat my... poop'os ;)
I'm going to overtake Sparky anytime soon ;) :p:
yeah... you know me... I'm very delusional sometimes :D
@sc00p, delusion is often quite comforting :nuts: ;)
btw, did you like my new target day title. Once I pass you I'll be looking backwards ....scoop...poocs... :rofl: Ah ha ha, I crack myself up. :rofl:
HA, I didn't catch that, nice one GAM :lol: