Cob, a quick question :)

diogenese · 20 Aug 2007 at 01:27

I'm trying desperately to keep away from your boots :eek:

As the proud owner of a spangly new Q6600 what assortment of foldy clients are you running to get 3800 ppd? and how much do I have to clock it to keep up

I'm at 3300 according to Fahmon with one SMP on Ubuntu/VMWare and one WinSMP(using 4 threads) running at 2.7Ghz.

And I've just found out that you can't fit a thermalright ultra-120 into a coolermaster ATC210 case

SiriusB · 20 Aug 2007 at 01:34

No idea what clocks he is running, but if memory serves:

Combination #1:

Windows
2 x VMWare clients with 2 x SMP Clients per VMWare Client [total 4 SMP Clients]

Combination #2:

Linux
4 x SMP Clients

Combo #2 is what he is running now, or at least the last time I saw him mention it.

Cob · 20 Aug 2007 at 02:11

Yip Combo #2 @3.33ghz.

You could probably beat my average by running four clients across two VM's since I'm getting nothing but 3059's atm. But you'll need 4gb of RAM to do it.

diogenese said:
And I've just found out that you can't fit a thermalright ultra-120 into a coolermaster ATC210 case

Bummer.

I don't suppose it'll take 1.5 weeks to fix will it?

diogenese · 20 Aug 2007 at 07:52

Cob said:
Yip Combo #2 @3.33ghz.

I don't suppose it'll take 1.5 weeks to fix will it?

It's running with the side panel off, at least it is in a case, I did a lot of seti crunching on this :eek:

rich99million · 20 Aug 2007 at 09:21

diogenese said:
It's running with the side panel off, at least it is in a case, I did a lot of seti crunching on this

hehe - I love that pic - nekkid crunchers ftw \o/

ahh the good old days - I favoured IKEA stacking storage boxes myself

Cob · 20 Aug 2007 at 13:45

diogenese said:
It's running with the side panel off, at least it is in a case, I did a lot of seti crunching on this

What cooler is that?

rich99million · 20 Aug 2007 at 14:05

Cob said:
What cooler is that?

Coolermaster Aero 7 I believe - that's an old SocketA machine

Cob · 20 Aug 2007 at 14:23

Yeah I recognise the NF7.

Oh the memories.

diogenese · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:51

It had an XP2100 in it with a bonkers OC and ran 24x7 for years! I think Lazyblade had the chip off me and is/was still running it recently

sculptor · 20 Aug 2007 at 19:02

Cob, Ive set up a Q6600 running one SMP Client on Ubuntu, Ive manually installed the Client.
Can I download and run another Client without using fininstall.
I can manually set the second Clients directory as "cd ~/folding/FAH2" and during configuration call it "machine 2" so it will be recognised by Ubuntu as a different Client.
One thing Im concerned about is when I have used two Normal Clients on dual core set-ups previously is I needed to add a short-cut "config-only" to each Client in-order for Windows to run them. Do I need to do something similar in Linux?

Tom.

Cob · 20 Aug 2007 at 19:33

Nope no need to AFAIK.

I too set up my clients manually in Ubuntu, and all I did to differentiate them was to name the folders CPU1, CPU2 etc and allocate them a different machine number.

sculptor · 20 Aug 2007 at 19:44

Cob said:
Nope no need to AFAIK.

I too set up my clients manually in Ubuntu, and all I did to differentiate them was to name the folders CPU1, CPU2 etc and allocate them a different machine number.

Thanks mate, I wasnt sure and didnt want to mess up the install. I did have a feeling Linux was less finiky than Windows, but thought Id ask to be on the safe side.

My quad is clocked to 3.38GHz with load temps in prime 95 around 45c which seems low with what others are getting. It is on water but its only a single rad Asetek set-up. Hopefully it will clock up higher when I have more time to play.

Thanks again mate, Tom.

Cob · 20 Aug 2007 at 19:56

Are you intending to install as a service? I haven't bothered and just run them from the terminal.

45c sounds very low. Which board and what are you using to read the temps?

sculptor · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:04

No Im not using the service, never have with the SMP Client, think there was problems early on with it.

Im using a DS3 Ver. 3.3 with speedfan to read the temps. If I hold the water resovoir or the tubing it is only luke warm to touch so I would think the temps are about right.
Forgot to mention Ive got an Alphacool Nexxos HP Pro/ XP Bold CPU block on the system. I had heard they were very good on low flow systems.

Cob · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:10

I'd add an extra 15-20c onto the Speedfan temps to get roughly what CoreTemp, Everest and TAT will give you. But it's still pretty cool. I hit about 70c in CoreTemp with all four cores maxxed under water.

sculptor · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:12

Second Client up and running, picked up a 3050, the first Client has another 3059.
Just checked the system monitor and all 4 cores are still only using around 70% and its only using 248Mb of ram, surely the ram cant be right.

Cob · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:29

Linux memory use is something I'm not too sure about. The System Monitor always gives quite a low reading, but the 'top' command gives a far higher reading. Eg- atm I've getting an 818mb reading from SM, but top is saying-

Code:

Mem:   2059588k total,  2023060k used,    36528k free,   159280k buffers
Swap:  1526132k total,    45280k used,  1480852k free,  1031624k cached

Now I understand that linux does a good job of caching, but it shouldn't be eating into my swap file if I'm only really using the 818mb that SM claims I'm using.

sculptor · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:43

Yes, just checked using the top command and mem use is at around 500Mb which makes more sense as with a single 3059 it was around 240Mb.

Linux seems lacking in good reporting sofware do you know if there are any good 3rd party programs for Linux?

Ill try CoreTemp in Windows tomorrow to check my temps. My ambient temp is only around 60c, I like fresh air no matter what the weather is doing.

KE1HA · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:54

sculptor said:
Linux seems lacking in good reporting sofware do you know if there are any good 3rd party programs for Linux?

Only thing I've found is lm-sensors, but with some motherboards, specifically Intel D975XBX's ( that's all I have Intel wise), it's a real pain to get it working. It's working on my ASUS boards though.

If you find something, let us know. My only other thought was to use Wine and try CoreTEMP that way.

[EDIT]

When I went down to 512MB on my Virtual Linux settings, Linux starting to use the Swap file as well, only about 75MB or so. I checked the four Cores running and they were only using about 350 to 380 MB, all be it, I was running the Gnome desktop, I'm sure running the distribution in command line mode (Init-3) will use much less memory.

[/EDIT].

.

Cob · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:58

Gdesklets also has some monitoring bits, but again it works better with some boards than others.

And CoreTemp won't run through Wine.