Multiple Clients - Ubuntu SMP

[KE1HA]

I was reading the SMP Installation Guide, which is very nice by the way.

SMP Client Installation Guide

I currently have 2x Quads running Ubuntu 64-Bit with the New 6.00 Beta-1 core installed via Finstall, but there's only one directory running, CPU1. So I'm assuming all four cores are crunching the single WU = 4x FahCore_a1.exe reported via top.

Would it be advisable, aka more PPD / total points accumulation to run 2 or maybe 4 clients instead of having all four crunching one WU? Both CPU's are clocked to about 2.95 to 3.0 GHZ or there about.

I'm not concerned about using the two quad boxes for anything other than FAH.
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[KE1HA]

Here's my Mem-Free Status:

E6800 2GB native, VMware Ubuntu 1GB allocated, Running 2x Clients. I need to Fix the Swap Size, should have been 1GB.

Q6600 1GB. Native Ubuntu Install, Running 4x Clients.

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[KE1HA]

Not to mention the amount of RAM it takes to do it (on my box it looks like the WUs want 800MB each - not sure how well they run in less as I haven't tried).

PS - Don't forget you'll need to run two copies of Ubuntu due to VMWare only being able to use two cores at a time (at least I think that's still true).

My VMWare Install is not on a Quad, it's on the E6800. It's the only Hybrid box I have (except for two laptops, which are not worth using to crunch on these days), the other 4 boxes are all Native Ubuntu Installs, Makes Life Easy and keeps me aways form the WinDoze Woo's.

Re: 800mb WU's ... I dont think I've ever seen a WU that wants over 350mb or so. It may well be a Beta WU. Right now I dont have any machines doing Beta WU's.
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