Why me (more Ubuntu problems)

shadowscotland · 1 Jun 2007 at 22:07

anyone know why ubuntu would just stop folding after an hour and a bit.
Fahmon doesn't say it's stoped but taskmanager is a 0%.

Just when i type in ./folding stop it goes through a shutdown sequence - useually the 17sec and 54sec wait. :confused:

only just started doing this this week (all updates installed as of wednesday but was doing it before)

if anyone has any ideas it will save me a reinstall :rolleyes:

running the desktop version

uncle_fungus · 1 Jun 2007 at 22:47

Try running

Code:

./folding status cpus

and post the output.

shadowscotland · 2 Jun 2007 at 00:50

stephen@shadowscotland:~$ cd ~/foldingathome
stephen@shadowscotland:~/foldingathome$ ./folding status cpus

['folding' ver. 5.4]

Status of running FAH client(s) on 2 processor(s):
Status on all possible FAH client(s):
fah5 (pid 4894) is running
Status on all possible FAH cores (FahCore_a1.exe):
FahCore_a1.exe (pid 4908 4909 4910 4911) is running
Status on all possible 'FaH' scripts:
FaH (pid 4888) is running

Processes running from /home/stephen/foldingathome/CPU1 directory:
FAH client pids: 4894
FAH core pids: 4908 4909 4910 4911
FaH pids: 4888

FAH client flags: '-verbosity 9'

Current Work Unit
-----------------
Name: Protein
Tag: -
Download time: June 1 21:40:09
Due time: June 5 21:40:09
Progress: 3% [__________]

There is no /home/stephen/foldingathome/CPU2 directory.

Status of FAH client(s): OK
stephen@shadowscotland:~/foldingathome$

WoZZeR · 2 Jun 2007 at 01:39

Looks like double dutch to me.

Mine did the same thing once, fortunately I noticed and did a ./folding stop followed by a ./folding start. It hasn't done it since, although it once failed to initialise properly.

shadowscotland · 4 Jun 2007 at 10:10

Well I've found out what the problem was, or at least two of the three.

My northbridge was overheating and causing the reboot (via uguru) or a EUE.
My Abit has a heatpipe/pasive cooling system on the chipset that cooled via the ambers on the xp120 and the case. But

I've been a bit slack with my maintance, it was dust city inside, so the airflow to the chipset was massively reduced. This and the hot weather resulted in the systems instability.

Anyway its all shiny and clean but still in a warm house (27) I knocked the Oc down a 100hz and I'm 4 degrees cooler idle (41) and 6 degrees cooler load (48) than saturaday

Was running for 10h yesterday without any problems, will see if its alive when I get home today *fingers crossed*

The third issue relating to fahcore just stopping crunching dispite being active was probably related. I'm sure I'll add to this thread if it dies again.

So follow crunchers, time to get the hoover out

Trox · 4 Jun 2007 at 10:53

Check out what priority its running at, you might have to renice it.

In terminal type "top" then when it displays the list of processes on the left you will see the P ID next to the F@H process.
Press R
Enter that ID
Set it to 0
(You have to be in root for the above)

Default has it at 19 which is very low priority, which would explain why its not doing anything at times

Just in case you dont know -20 is high priority and 20 is low.

shadowscotland · 4 Jun 2007 at 12:25

I'll try, but the system monitor in ubuntu was at 0% and so was task manager in windows.

shadowscotland · 6 Jun 2007 at 09:36

after two days of perfect crunching - it eue'd at 31% yesterday on it's second wu

WinSMP wasn't playing ball either (but i was trying to set it up as a service) so it back to standard clients untill tonight.

I remember when 500ppd was a major acheivment from a single pc, not it feels like I'm short changed