VMware Linux bigadv

Maybe try it at 4GHz? All D0 chips do it. My memory is running slightly faster at 1528MHz as far as I'm aware.

Is it a dedicated folding system or have you been using it as well?
 
Haven't been using it for anything else - and both GTX260 aren't folding

I know I'm going to regret fiddling with my overclock settings but I might as well give it a go
 
I'm all up and running with the vmware now, TPF is 36min on a 2684.

How do you know if you need to do the Langouste client fix? Does it error on start up or only when the unit trys to upload? Cheers.
 
dekez said:
I'm all up and running with the vmware now, TPF is 36min on a 2684.

How do you know if you need to do the Langouste client fix? Does it error on start up or only when the unit trys to upload? Cheers.
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Good to hear, I'm still waiting for the WU to finish on FoldingOne. :rolleyes:
 
When moving from Windows to Linux - do you have to do the initial 10 units before being able to get the bigadv's & bonus credit?

Just trying this out and the first unit I got is a GRO-A3 (Project P7148) - PPD=2871.8 according to HFM
 
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loudbob said:
When moving from Windows to Linux - do you have to do the initial 10 units before being able to get the bigadv's & bonus credit?

Just trying this out and the first unit I got is a GRO-A3 - PPD=2871.8 according to HFM
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Are you sure it is a BigAdv unit though, make sure you have the right flags. As far as I'm aware it is per account, so once you've done the 10 units it doesn't matter which platform you use.
 
Have got the bigadv & smp 8 flags - but also had the advmethods flag.

Have removed the advmethods flag - will see if it makes a difference.
 
Thanks - rebooted the client and ppd jumped to 23k.

Never had a 7148 unit so no idea on what the average ppd should be.

Guess it's not bigadv - estimated time to completion 4 hours (2:55mins tpf)
 
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Guess it was the advmethod flag - after removing flag and completing current unit it's next unit is a 6901 with a TPF of around 29:30mins - not sure what the ppd is as it's not registering the bonus factor.
 
Yeah that will mess it up.

But sometimes you just get a normal smp WU, especially if you have had a few bigadv failures. I think you have to return at least 80% of all bigadv without failure or you will start to get normal smp's again.
 
Almost forgot......

Thanks Biffa, I never ventured into Linux before - and this is a very easy way to utilise it.

Having switched over the i7 930 @ 4.3GHz (with relative ease) - I think I will do the i7 860 @ 4.0Ghz after work.
 
Well I'm up and running on FoldingOne, unfortunately it picked up a P2685 which will make it hard to judge the increase until I get a P6900.

Are the Tools worth installing? I downloaded them when it asked but have not installed them yet.
 
Ok cool. Is there a way to see the active log of the progress like you can under CMD in Windows? I find it a bit odd remoting into the system and seeing nothing moving lol.
 
Well just had a bit of an issue, totally my fault but thought I'd mention it so others don't do it. In the power options I had it set to balanced which is the default W7 power setting, this means it goes to sleep after a set amount of time idle, with folding using CMD this wasn't a problem.

However using VMware it is, I guess it doesn't take into account resources used when the process is virtual so make sure you have it set to performance before starting or at the very least sleep set to never. I'm sure many of you do this anyways and so do I but it was a clean SP1 install and I forgot, so just a headsup!
 
Biffa said:
There is a fix for the Langouste error. It involves defining the USER variable before Langouste loads

At the console window:

root@FAH:~# _

Type: pico /etc/rc.d/rc.M

Then scroll down until you find the following lines:

Code: 
# Start Langouste if enabled
. /etc/rc.d/rc.fah.conf
LPORT=8080
etc
etc

And before the first line add:

Code: 
# Hack to define USER variable for Langouste
export USER=fah

So in the end it looks like this:

Code: 
[B]# Hack to define USER variable for Langouste
export USER=fah
[/B]
# Start Langouste if enabled
. /etc/rc.d/rc.fah.conf
LPORT=8080
etc
etc
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Question:

Do I need to enable Langouste?

Running two systems:
WinXP Pro (64bit) & Win7 Home (64bit)

When I check the Langouste log on both WinXP is ok but Win7 has errors:

Mon Apr 4 16:37:09 2011 Langouste3 0.15.6 (compiled Thu Feb 24 18:59:29 MST 2011 by root@Build)
Mon Apr 4 16:37:09 2011 Langouste3 comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
Mon Apr 4 16:37:09 2011 see `COPYING.txt' file located in source directory
Mon Apr 4 16:37:09 2011 ERROR: USER variable is not set; please report this issue.
Mon Apr 4 16:37:09 2011 ERROR: sanity_check() failed; address the issue(s) and try again. Shutting down.
Mon Apr 4 16:40:12 2011 Langouste3 0.15.6 (compiled Thu Feb 24 18:59:29 MST 2011 by root@Build)
Mon Apr 4 16:40:12 2011 Langouste3 comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
Mon Apr 4 16:40:12 2011 see `COPYING.txt' file located in source directory
Mon Apr 4 16:40:12 2011 Default Langouste helper temp directory: /tmp/langouste-fah/
Mon Apr 4 16:40:12 2011 Listening on 127.0.0.1:8080
Mon Apr 4 16:40:12 2011 Going into backgound...


I have tried with both Langouste enabled & disabled - even put in the USER=fah fix - but still no luck.

Realy don't want to loose any work with this :(
 
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