Anyone had a WU5102 - 3340 pointer

Happy · 4 May 2009 at 11:19

Got them of both my quad clients, it's killed my PPD. I've lost a total of 3200PD and there ETA is just over 48 hours per WU on my Q6600 @ 3.7Ghz

MikeTimbers · 4 May 2009 at 11:31

They're not common, thank Gods. Only one of my rigs has had one but yes, it halved its PPD.

ChrissyT88 · 4 May 2009 at 11:43

Had quite a lot on Linux VMs when the A1 units were common a few weeks back - with only two cores able to process the WU (and my sporadic uptime + low OC) they tend to take quite a large part of a week to complete. Not good ppd wise!

MikeTimbers · 4 May 2009 at 12:13

There are ways to avoid A1 units.

ChrissyT88 · 4 May 2009 at 12:32

Aside from Linux VMs with advmethods on? I sure someone has probably written a script to delete non-A2 units, but its not a great idea if you ask me.

verbal · 4 May 2009 at 13:07

MikeTimbers said:
There are ways to avoid A1 units.

Well thanks for sharing!

He's probably thinking of selecting to receive only small WUs. I have a 5101 WU at the moment and it's worth only 2165 points

Fahmon says it will take 1 day, 16 hours in total and I'm getting under half the ppd I would get for a 1920 point WU.

I wonder which is worse 5101 or 5102 anyone got both in their current benchmarks list?

ChrissyT88 · 4 May 2009 at 13:22

5102s were worse - im sorry i dont have the benchmark data since a format a few weeks ago (its saved somewhere... although where im not sure!). There was not a huge amount in it, but the 3000 point units were a bit worse for me.

Happy · 4 May 2009 at 13:39

That sound far worse than a 5102 since for another 8 hours work you would be getting over 1000 more points.

MikeTimbers · 4 May 2009 at 14:20

ChrissyT88 said:
Aside from Linux VMs with advmethods on? I sure someone has probably written a script to delete non-A2 units, but its not a great idea if you ask me.

verbal said:
Well thanks for sharing!

See first quote for why I didn't. It's frowned upon but the scripts are out there if you look. It can result in a lot of downtime if there are no A2 units to get as the scripts just constantly delete the A1s and try again and again. When there are A2s it's what you'll mostly get anyway so the benefit of scripts like this are marginal.

Senture · 4 May 2009 at 14:21

Had quite a run of these before my PC was shipped over. PPD dropped from 2600 to 1100 :\

FreeStream · 4 May 2009 at 16:47

MP got a few A1 cores, PPD halved too.

How did they judge the points for these!? No system seems to be able to keep up :/

Happy · 4 May 2009 at 17:57

What's your MBP got i7?

Happy · 6 May 2009 at 22:40

Son of a ***** one of them just finished and the client hung on 100%, so I restarted the client and it said corrupted WU deleting and continuing. That's about 2 days wasted :mad:

!

ChrissyT88 · 6 May 2009 at 23:53

Happy are you running Linux VMs...? If so, if it hangs, follow this guide here:

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=3889&sid=e8cb0b32acf0cc82f7bbbaa44af8e5e7

You need to get qfix and follow the steps (pretty sure its all listed in this guide). Basically follow the steps and restart the client and the WU should submit. I lost a couple before i found this guide - its damn annoying!

Happy · 7 May 2009 at 00:26

OOH nice one

Is this a once only thing or would I have to do it each time a WU hangs (this being the 1st)?

VVV Thanks

Snapshot · 7 May 2009 at 06:25

Each time. There's a Windows version too.

FreeStream · 9 May 2009 at 00:34

Happy said:
What's your MBP got i7?

No, my Mac Pro has a 2.66Ghz Core i7.
My Macbook Pro (which doesn't fold) is a 2.4Ghz Conroe.

The MP folds ~ 3-4 times faster.

MBP does 1600-1800
MP does 6400-6600