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[p2501]

I wasn't even getting this ppd on a single windows smp using four cores

Sooooo... how did you put that VM together? Care to point me the right way, is it notfred in a VM or....

[Sparky]

OOO I'm so excited I think I got the ATI GPU client working again!

[catawalks]

Sooooo... how did you put that VM together? Care to point me the right way, is it notfred in a VM or....

p2501, check out this: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=197751

Somebody posted it in the "WU 5748 GPU?" thread.

OOO I'm so excited I think I got the ATI GPU client working again!

What was wrong?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Sooooo... how did you put that VM together? Care to point me the right way, is it notfred in a VM or....

Already posted in the 5748 wu thread I think. The Barnacle has a guide as well somewhere, both of didn't include any pictures and I explained what I done using a trail version of vm workstation but Shadowtester linked below that to the free version of vmware player so I would use that. You can still use my step by step explanation though I think, worked for me

[Sparky]

What was wrong?

Beats me Had a set of windows updates that had been nagging me for over a week to get installed so I finally said fine, and when I rebooted the client went into hissy fits and refused to work. As soon as it would engage the core it would spike the CPU to full usage on that core and crash the core, then blame my machine for being unstable and sulk for 24 hours

After a few reinstalls and file deletes and screaming at it, the client finally started normally and the CPU usage gently bumped up to 10% like it should when the core engaged. I have no idea what it's problem was but I hope there are no more windows updates for a while

Now all I need is to fix fold6's PSU and I'll be back firing on all cylinders again.

[[XC] 4X4N]

Just got home and see 4 of 5 cards with 5748 wu's. Drops my ppd from over 26k to just under 19k

[Sparky]

I still have no sign of these 7548 units....

[catawalks]

I still have no sign of these 7548 units....

LOL. Stop sounding so disappointed. Be glad that you haven't run into them yet.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

That's not being dissapointed that's him being relieved and wondering wth we're all complaining about with those wu's he just aint getting

I had one, thought I didn't but picked one up anyway, still just one in the past days it seems

[p2501]

p2501, check out this: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=197751

Somebody posted it in the "WU 5748 GPU?" thread.

Thanks man, looks easy enough..

OOO I'm so excited I think I got the ATI GPU client working again!

I'm glad to hear that, fold on!

Already posted in the 5748 wu thread I think. The Barnacle has a guide as well somewhere, both of didn't include any pictures and I explained what I done using a trail version of vm workstation but Shadowtester linked below that to the free version of vmware player so I would use that. You can still use my step by step explanation though I think, worked for me

Thanks Marvin, I'll, try. 2500PPDx2 SMP is defo better than 1600x2..
I am so going to try this.

[DAK1640]

Looks like a photo finish horse race between WFO & RR...

[DeanZ]

I think I got an A2 on my E8400 at 3.0...cause its doing more ppd than 2smps on a 3.6 quad lol...instaling vmware now to fix that

[WFO]

Looks like a photo finish horse race between WFO & RR...

It better not be!!! I've put up more points every day but one. He has closed the gap in 24hr average. Hopefully that's fixed.

[MikeB12]

reminder: check your gpu temps on 5748's and adjust fans accordingly.. I've noticed about a 6-10c temp increase on mine with these new wu's... luckily all mine were in the 60's on 55xx's, so these 5748's only puts me in the 70's...

[road-runner]

It better not be!!! I've put up more points every day but one. He has closed the gap in 24hr average. Hopefully that's fixed.

I am letting him win anyway...

[DAK1640]

I was referring to today, not overall points

[MikeB12]

showdown at high noon with the big guns

[catawalks]

GO! GO! GO!

One day I hope to be up there with you guys.

[MaK2000]

Mike you may want to slow it down. The Bobs will come after you hard for that extension cord to your shack out back. They don't take stealing electricty lightly.

[p2501]

I wasn't even getting this ppd on a single windows smp using four cores

Marvin, how did you set your priorities to make everything work so well together?

I set the GPUv2 priority to normal manually and that of both VM's to idle in task manager, still I get a points hit on the first GPU...

Edit: I think that's solved, I'm using ProcessLasso to assign priorities and cores, both GPU's back to normal. You said you have two SMP VMX instances running, did you set both up to use 4 or 2 cores (not cores affinities, but in the setup of the VM's)? I'm just asking bc the cores are not 100% loaded, they are varying around 92-100%.

[DeanZ]

hmmm I cant track through FAHMon...all i have folderwise is "564db2aa-948c-3ee9-a534-20ae233d39d3.vmem.lck" "folding.vmdk.lck" and "folding.vmx.lck" as the folders in there...yet cpu usage is 100% and its showing no problem...any ideas?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Marvin, how did you set your priorities to make everything work so well together?

I set the GPUv2 priority to normal manually and that of both VM's to idle in task manager, still I get a points hit on the first GPU...

Edit: I think that's solved, I'm using ProcessLasso to assign priorities and cores, both GPU's back to normal. You said you have two SMP VMX instances running, did you set both up to use 4 or 2 cores (not cores affinities, but in the setup of the VM's)? I'm just asking bc the cores are not 100% loaded, they are varying around 92-100%.

That's Linux, it's doing more work while requiring less cpu usage. I think you're running a1 core wu's btw then as they always used about 40% here per vm but the a2's were abit higher. Still had enough to even run mj12 next to gpu folding.

I set both to use 2 cores, but even if you said four it wouldn't matter because the vm only exposes dual cores. What I should do is use that program Afc and set up each vm to use two cores on the same die ( which atm I don't know if it's two on one die or two spread over two dies causing heavy fsb usage. If rr or you pick up a 2669 we can compare ppd abit and if any of us have considerable higher or lower points the core logic is a logical thing to look at ( pun )

Btw if you set gpu2 priority manual in taskman it will reset itself on the next work unit ( you did change the fahcore11 or fahcore13 right? not the client itself? ). I set the priority to 'low' in the config options, still got abit of a point hit but not much and most of it is due to mj12.

hmmm I cant track through FAHMon...all i have folderwise is "564db2aa-948c-3ee9-a534-20ae233d39d3.vmem.lck" "folding.vmdk.lck" and "folding.vmx.lck" as the folders in there...yet cpu usage is 100% and its showing no problem...any ideas?

Network\FOLD-%random string%\etc\folding\1 ( for first instance if set to smp per 2 cores and you run it on a quad core ) or \2 for second instance.

Enable network discovery if you didn't have that on, and during vm setup be sure to leave windows networking enabeld

[p2501]

That's Linux, it's doing more work while requiring less cpu usage. I think you're running a1 core wu's btw then as they always used about 40% here per vm but the a2's were abit higher. Still had enough to even run mj12 next to gpu folding.

I think it "cured" itself, unused cycles are now around 3-7% added up for all cores, so I guess it's okay.

I like this a2 core, 2k PPD more....



(96GSO has less points because it's running on 1.19.... again.)
I don't know who came up with the idea of VM folding, but thanks to the guy/gal. And thanks to Marvin and the_barnacle too.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Credit should go to the Barnacle not me, for putting it up here on XS. Or if you really want to go to the source, thank Notfred over at 'The Tech report' for his iso creator and vmware appliance apps.

Though we could use some updates in his config thread, and an easy explanations of the steps required to clone the vm to run two instances. Think that didn't happen then because we had an argument over the ppd drop on the gpu2 clients. Dual vm's and my single low end gpu2 client is worth the hit, but if you run two high ppd gpu's it's diffrent. And iirc he wasn't running vista so he needed a core for gpu alone but I'm entirely unsure about that I think me and The Barnacle had some arguments over it, and I think I should be considerd the guilty party in that as my communication skills are less then stellar. As I remember it we had some diffrences in how it should be explained but that was only because we both had only our own configs in mind, atleast I think that was what happend with me.

Anyway, The Barnacle brought it up here, he should get the credit. I just hope he will update his guide to consider more options then currently in there. I'm not that comfortable with writing guides for people

[MikeB12]

Windows updates last night for vista.. and they were a reboot update... FYI