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Billy,
Ive got most of my dual core rigs running the SMP Client on Ubuntu.
Now Im not having any problems at the moment (becuase its winter), but all the PCs are overclocked and I was wondering if you know of a system monitoring utillity that works with Linux.
I have installed Ubuntu and Windows XP as dual boot op systems on each PC and I can periodically check out everthing whilst in Windows, but I would prefer not to have to do this in the future.

Im not sure if you were planning on adding installation of the SMP Client in your Set-up Guide, but after installing it on half-a-dozen PCs I could help with the trials and tribulations Ive gone through.

Ubuntu (aka Linux) is very fussy with certain ATI(AMD) graphics cards, as Ive found out and needs to be installed using the "Alterative CD"

On some of my PCs ive been able to install v.6.06, whilst on other PCs Ive had to install v.6.10 and had to download the 32bit libs in order for the Client to work.

So if you know of something which will monitor the CPU temps it would certainly help.

Tom. :)
 
I have used this in the past (not running any linux at the mo, however the smp is intruiging me :) )

linky

I think it requires some compiling, but was fairly easy.

Can not offer any advice on installing tho.

Dunc
 
Nothing sticks out in my mind right now. I'll look around and see what I can find. More to report later. :)

I have an X850 which is one of the fussy cards yet I've never had any problems with it; not in the LiveCD installer using open-source drivers nor using the proprietary driver. I'll see what I can do.

If people crunching on SMP systems are using this as FAH-only it might be a clever thing to do to roll our own distro based on Slax that runs FAH by default. Perhaps we should look into it.

EDIT: For remote monitoring a friend of mine put together a web-based monitor that uses a tiny server on each machine to update a page. I haven't played with it for quite some time. I'll drop him a line and see what his program can do and I'll see if it's useful for your purpose.
 
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Ive just tried installing v.6.06 TLS following the instructions on the page on the Ubuntu forum, the one I posted yesterday.
After typing the first line:
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
it tried to download and install a driver but failed issuing a code 404 warning.
Im assuming the network connection is not live at this stage.
I am now installing using the Alternate disk / Text Method so Ill see if that works.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
If people crunching on SMP systems are using this as FAH-only it might be a clever thing to do to roll our own distro based on Slax that runs FAH by default. Perhaps we should look into it.
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Now that would really help people like me who have no idea about linux :p I'd love to have a go with the SMP client cause of the massive PPD boost, but I've been reading both the threads but none of it makes any sense to me at all :eek:

Could you have it run from pendrives or formatted CDRW or DVDRW?

*watches thread with interest* :D
 
After lots of trying with each version Im now back to v.6.06 and have managed to get the fix on the Ubuntu forms to work so I can install it.
Once its installed I then have to reconfigure xserver again so hopefully Ive got it sussed.
Im glad I only have 2 ATI X800 series cards.
 
For monitoring I just install lm-sensors and phpsysinfo.
apt-get install lm-sensors phpsysinfo
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This takes care of temps, fan speeds and voltage monitoring pretty well and is accesible over the web.

If you want graphs of more general stuff, Munin is pretty good. I've yet to figure out how to get it graphing info from lm-sensors but it's still handy. For a demo of each see http://venus.piggott.me.uk/phpsysinfo and http://venus.piggott.me.uk/munin. (that's actually a non-Foldy box of mine :o - I might install them on my Foldy box too actually).

Hope this helps, null :)

edit - Remembered installing lm-sensors is a bit harder than that (just did so on Foldy box). Requires running of sensors-detect as root after install and then some trial and error with tweaking /etc/sensors.conf - mine still isn't quite there. Also, /etc/phpsysinfo/config.php needs telling that lm-sensors is available (but enter it without the dash - i.e. $sensor_program = "lmsensors"; ). For hard drive monitoring, install hddtemp and enable as a server, then set the relevent entry in phpsysinfo's config to 'tcp'. (i.e. $hddtemp_avail = "tcp"; ). All this assumes Debian as your distro.
phpsysinfo of Foldy box is at http://saturn.piggott.me.uk/phpsysinfo and Munin info at http://venus.piggott.me.uk/munin/piggott.me.uk/saturn.piggott.me.uk.html.
 
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Thanks null.
that looks good, I basically just need to monitor the temps, so all the other info is a bonus.
Tom. :)
 
sculptor said:
Thanks null.
that looks good, I basically just need to monitor the temps, so all the other info is a bonus.
Tom. :)
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Indeed. That looks like the way ahead. I've thrown my associate an email so I'll report back when I know more.
 
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