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Hmm after a few hours of folding now, something strange has happened. The GPU clients on my main PC have dropped from about 4000PPD down to around 2000PPD after switching to the SMP clients.

Would it be worth dropping one of the GPU clients to see if everything else runs better ?
 
Mattus said:
Doo it, we need the points :D

Off-topic, but Yeggstry... what temp does the TRUE keep your Q6600 at? Which fan do you have on it? This heatwave has pushed my load temp the wrong side of 70c, which I'm not too pleased about - Freezer 7 may have to go!
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Woah.

I just noticed, I'm now up to 87/86/80/80 :( I may have to up the fan output. GPU is at 64 atm.

I'm using the Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000. Should keep the temp down, not sure why its that hot at the moment :|

EDIT: Brought the fans up to high and the temp is now 82/80/73/73. Slightly better.
 
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booyaka said:
i would consider checking that the heatsink is fitted correctly. No overclocks and it's hitting 80 i would be concerned!!
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I hope you're not talking to me here :)

I know I'll probably have to lap this at some point, but the temps are fine in the summer when I have the fans on full :)
 
Yeggstry said:
Woah.

I just noticed, I'm now up to 87/86/80/80 :( I may have to up the fan output.
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Hmm, that's surprising. I suppose 1.475v is high-ish, though - is that 1.475 in the BIOS or as measured in Windows? On my Freezer 7 I can't go above about 1.35 before the temps start to get out of hand. Probably going to buy the Noctua cooler in an attempt to push a bit further. My case cooling will probably be the limiting factor since I have to sleep with the thing so I keep the fans on low.

Anyway, back on-topic... TheKnat, sounds like your GPU clients are fighting the SMP clients for CPU time. You need to raise the priority on your GPU clients slightly to ensure that they win :) You can do this from the config screen assuming you're running the systray client, as below:

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Mattus said:
Hmm, that's surprising. I suppose 1.475v is high-ish, though - is that 1.475 in the BIOS or as measured in Windows?
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1.475v in BIOS. I upped it a while ago from 1.45 as the overclock was a bit unstable, but its behaving itself recently so I will bring it down a bit more.
 
Mattus said:
Anyway, back on-topic... TheKnat, sounds like your GPU clients are fighting the SMP clients for CPU time. You need to raise the priority on your GPU clients slightly to ensure that they win :) You can do this from the config screen assuming you're running the systray client, as below:
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Thank yee kindly sire. Strange thing is on PC2, the GPU client is still coming up as 5000PPD even though it has 2 SMP clients running as well. I disabled one of the SMP clients on the main PC for now, but when I get home I'll make this change and see what happens.

Work computer is now switched over, so lets see what I can get going on.
 
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Welcome to Team 10:) With all that ppd you'll be keeping the postie busy bring you yr tiffy's:D Note to self "Check rear-view mirror in a month or so"
Not sure if you can use FahMon but by deduction EOC should show up WU = points or go to projects page to get a rough idea http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html
anything ending PS3 is relevant. Hope this helps or wait a bit & a guru will be along with a dollop of enlightenment.
 
Last time I checked the PS3 is of the order of 900ppd when working 24/7. Not high by today's standards they may need to look at that if they continue to want those Cell flops.

Although people who actually care are moving to GPUs. It's a dynamic environment. What works now will be considered inefficient in 18 months time.
 
I've noticed that they like to encourage the latest thing by giving out more points (like the nvidia GPU's) but I don't think I'll be in a position to custom make systems for folding for a while.

I'll just stick with what I've got and see how many points I've accumalated in the next week. Might be able to adjust some stuff to make it more efficient.
 
Thanks :)

Still having problems getting production up to full capacity as well. Had 4 clients stop one night when the lightning took out my internet connection and then last night both SMP clients on the main machine locked up for some reason, destroying all the processing they had done :(

Hopefully after me tweeking it a bit, I'll get some more stability. I've stopped using the -forceasm flag for now, as the clients wouldn't even start this morning using it.
 
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Oh great and now I just destroyed all the processing done on my work computer by trying to upgrade to the latest client >.< . Wanted to make sure its not going to expire, because I'm going away for a few days and thought it wouldn't get any more work to process.

Think I'll leave my home ones till they finish their latest WU.

BTW does anyone know if i should be using the -deino flag as well, as I can't figure out what its for.
 
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Did you download the MPICH version of the SMP client or the Deino version? If it's the Deino version, you might want to try adding the -deino flag. If you're on the MPICH version you could try switching if you have any more problems (but don't fix what ain't broke. :p) The Deino version won't work on 64-bit Windows though.
 
I downloaded both to be sure, but installed the MPICH one. Seems to be running OK, apart from the 1.5 days lost work.

Whats the difference between the two clients ?
 
They use different methods of communicating between the core processes. The MPICH one is a bit faster, the Deino one is a bit more stable.
 
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