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On Linux, you can get it to use more than one core by passing the -smp flag to the fah6 program. I'm not sure about Windows because I haven't folded on Windows in a very long time. :)
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Welcome!
On Linux, you can get it to use more than one core by passing the -smp flag to the fah6 program. I'm not sure about Windows because I haven't folded on Windows in a very long time. :)
It depends on what version you're using, but you can probably pass an option like "-smp 2" to get it to run on 2 cores. Some work units will never run on 2, while others will, from what I've seen.
Welcome Aboard!!
PS, whoops, howdy Cybertron!
Yes we have a solarwinds graph-monkey here as well. Fortunately, he sits in the office next to mine, so it's very easy for me to say "STFU" when he complains about his little graphs. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bs_texas
Its a trade off... I get 12-20Mb/s downloads, but for a view I have drunk people puking on Bourbon street. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by bs_texas
You have some beach front, want to trade for a week?
Why not do both? Set your DL queue list in the morning, live it up on the beach, your email should be done downloading by supper. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bs_texas
I guess no satellite access out there? Should be marginally better than 56k dial up.
P.S. Oh, and the reason for coming to this thread... I will have at least one box folding again so you should see activity for me again.
Supper next week!! Oh, but by then... Unit 02, 03 and 04 have passed their deadlines!Quote:
Originally Posted by trilarian
:D
No, no satellite access. I'm hoping to be back in Texas in 2011.. but that's still way up in the air.
We'll get you a Grand/Gold Margarita over at Pappasitos when you get back :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bs_texas
I understand the "how", but I keep running into dead ends. I suppose I am lucky to get it to work at all on a post 9.10 distro. I run this command:Quote:
Originally Posted by cybertron
It boots, logs me in, and runs into the legendary reallocation error. I've tried a workaround (whosyerdaddy) to no avail, so I suppose I'll continue on one core. I suppose I'm lucky to do that.Code:./fah6 -smp -verbosity 9
Hmm, afraid I'm not going to be much help with that then. I haven't run into the problem yet on my Gentoo box that runs Folding, so I'm not really sure what else you could try.
Well, I'm no expert on this, but I mostly use ./fah6 -advmethods -smp, except where I have to use that whosyerdaddy thing. And even there I use -advmethods -smp.
Looks like I'll hit 10,000,000. today.
Mike
Nice milestone! 10,000,000 points and over 12,000 Work Units. I'm not sure which is most important, but both are great numbers.
I'm still closing in on 7,000,000 Points with over 8,000 WU.
Pfft... I just broke 300k with almost 900 WU... :rolleyes:
Sad part is I'm 16th with that low rating. Need more folders for the JL team. It used to be much higher on the team pages.
Every little bit helps, I reckon.
I remember when we were on page 2 at 147 over at
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...ist.php?s=&p=3
We're holding at about 251, currently, on page 3.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=36480
I finally got around to replacing my CPU fan so I'm back folding again. I used an old one that I had lying around and it reminded me why I replaced them. My PC is noticeably louder than it was, even though I turned down the rest of the case fans that I had turned up to make sure the CPU didn't overheat while it wasn't working. Oh well. :rolleyes:
What's that you say? Eh??? Let me turn off my big box fan that I have running to drown out the sound of my 11 running computers! :D
Did I mention that it's 80 degrees in my room? (Yes, my one room BQ room). But it's only 45% humidity! :cool:
Man, did I mention my stupid 56K dial-up service? It was going really good there for a while and then there was yet another outage at the provider side, but now that it's back, I'm having a hard time again getting stuff to upload.
Watching my Ubuntu System Monitor, the Sending graphic is fluctuating between 0.0 - 1.5 - 3.0 - 1.5 - 4.5 - 0.0 - 1.5 - 3.0 - 3.0 - 1.5 - 0.0 - 0.0 - 1.5 - 3.4 - 4.5 - 0.0 - etc.... :rolleyes: Oh, and yes, that's KB/s. :( On a good day I can maybe upload a work unit in 4 or 5 hours. It's usually 6 to 10 or more. Lately, it's back to more of "Unit 4's deadline has passed." D'OH !!
(Where's that [flogging-a-dead-horse] emoticon?) ;)
I remember those days, being excited when my download speeds hit 1 kbps. Can't say I miss them. :)
Gonna hit 11m today. It looks like we have about 8 consistent folders in the top half of the list. But we're being overtaken faster than than we're conquering. We need more power. I had to back off on a few cores on my big servers so they could do 9-5 work. But even If I put them back on to folding it wont be enough to start the climb up the rankings. We need like 10 more good teammates.
BS, dude you should write a books on how to get the most out of a dial-up connection. You definately deserve an award for that. Imagine if you had to use one of these.
I'll have to check out that youtube when I get to work. Those things take forever on the dial-up system!
If we ever get the DSL we are being promised maybe things will get better. (Last I heard though, our max upload will only be 1 Mbps and it will cost probably over $50/month.)
Until then I still see a lot of this:
Although... I sometimes wonder if the problem is Stanford, or my setup? This particular machine is a Windows Vista machine:Code:[13:09:25] + Attempting to send results [April 5 13:09:25 UTC]
[13:13:30] Completed 70000 out of 500000 steps (14%)
[13:18:05] Completed 75000 out of 500000 steps (15%)
[13:22:47] Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps (16%)
[13:24:28] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[13:24:28] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:24:28] (130.237.165.141:8080)
[13:24:28] + Retrying using alternative port
[13:27:31] Completed 85000 out of 500000 steps (17%)
[13:31:03] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[13:31:03] (Got status 408)
[13:31:03] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:31:03] (130.237.165.141:80)
[13:31:03] Could not transmit unit 02 to Collection server; keeping in queue.
Fortunately I get a few of these to:Code:8 cores detected
If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working
[12:06:09] MPIexec present
--- Opening Log file [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]
# Windows SMP Console Edition #################################################
###############################################################################
Folding@Home Client Version 6.34
http://folding.stanford.edu
###############################################################################
###############################################################################
Launch directory: C:\Users\bs\Desktop\fah634
Executable: C:\Users\bs\Desktop\fah634\FAH6.34-win32-SMP.exe
Arguments: -advmethods -smp
[12:06:09] - Ask before connecting: No
[12:06:09] - User name: bs_texas (Team 36480)
[12:06:09] - User ID: 129C3D2F11F6AD59
[12:06:09] - Machine ID: 1
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Loaded queue successfully.
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Project: 7154 (Run 0, Clone 50, Gen 23)
[12:06:09] + Processing work unit
[12:06:09] Core required: FahCore_a3.exe
[12:06:09] + Attempting to send results [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]
[12:06:09] Core found.
[12:06:09] Working on queue slot 07 [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]
[12:06:09] + Working ...
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] *------------------------------*
[12:06:09] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[12:06:09] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Preparing to commence simulation
[12:06:09] - Looking at optimizations...
[12:06:09] - Created dyn
[12:06:09] - Files status OK
[12:06:09] - Expanded 1769031 -> 1957708 (decompressed 110.6 percent)
[12:06:09] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=1769031 data_size=19
57708, decompressed_data_size=1957708 diff=0
[12:06:09] - Digital signature verified
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Project: 6961 (Run 0, Clone 7, Gen 15)
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[12:06:09] Entering M.D.
[12:06:15] Mapping NT from 8 to 8
[12:06:15] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0%)
[12:11:01] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1%)
[12:15:53] Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps (2%)
[12:20:41] Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps (3%)
[12:21:17] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[12:21:17] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[12:21:17] (128.143.199.96:8080)
[12:21:17] + Retrying using alternative port
[12:22:37] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[12:22:37] (Got status 503)
[12:22:37] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[12:22:37] (128.143.199.96:80)
[12:22:37] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed April 2) to work serve
r.
[12:22:37] + Attempting to send results [April 5 12:22:37 UTC]
[12:25:28] Completed 20000 out of 500000 steps (4%)
That upload only took about 30 minutes. But it was only about 3MB. In the recent past the work units uploading have all been around 42MB and can take 6 to 10 hours to upload. One of these days I'll take the time to figure out what's going on and see if I can get to a more reliable, steady state.Code:[10:45:22] + Attempting to send results [April 4 10:45:22 UTC]
[11:18:22] + Results successfully sent
[11:18:22] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[11:18:22] + Number of Units Completed: 151
The scary thing is that 1 meg for $50 a month is about what I had up until very recently. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by bs_texas
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DANG IT ! ! ! !
Well, I hope I'm back on track. Discovered an issue with the 8 port Netgear gigabit switch I was using. But, not sure if it was the switch itself, or one of the NICs went nuts and was overloading it. I swapped it out anyway and I'll see how it goes.
:rolleyes:
Just got around to viewing that youtube video today. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by techwise
The first time I used a modem in college, it was one like that, without the fancy box. The very first text I saw that came across the wire... the guy on the other end typed, "Stand back!" :D
It was a technically awe-inspiring miracle of modern times.
(9600 baud modems were about $500 back then, or was it $300. For me in college, it was the same as being a Million dollars! ;) )
DANG IT!! Now what?!?!
(I wonder how many times I've said "DANG IT!" in this thread?)
:rolleyes:
So, maybe this is the root of my uploading troubles:
Code:C:\Users\bs>tracert 128.143.199.96
Tracing route to pmks01.med.virginia.edu [128.143.199.96]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms smoothwall10 [10.10.10.1]
2 100 ms 91 ms 91 ms 192.168.1.1
3 91 ms 95 ms 95 ms 172.16.2.1
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 313 ms 315 ms 315 ms pmks01.med.virginia.edu [128.143.199.96]
Trace complete.
C:\Users\bs>
C:\Users\bs>tracert 130.237.165.141
Tracing route to folding-collection.su.se [130.237.165.141]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms smoothwall10 [10.10.10.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 3643 ms * * 172.16.2.1
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 3936 ms * * folding-collection.su.se [130.237.165.141]
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 3226 ms 2859 ms * folding-collection.su.se [130.237.165.141]
28 * * 3938 ms folding-collection.su.se [130.237.165.141]
Trace complete.
C:\Users\bs>
:(Code:[06:25:28] Completed 283674 out of 500000 steps (56%)
[06:25:33] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[06:25:33] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[06:25:33] (128.143.199.96:8080)
[06:25:33] + Retrying using alternative port
[06:25:33] Connecting to http://128.143.199.96:80/
[06:26:43] Completed 285000 out of 500000 steps (57%)
[06:26:53] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[06:26:53] (Got status 503)
[06:26:53] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[06:26:53] (128.143.199.96:80)
[06:26:53] - Error: Could not transmit unit 05 (completed May 17) to work server
.
[06:26:53] - 19 failed uploads of this unit.
[06:26:53] + Attempting to send results [May 20 06:26:53 UTC]
[06:26:53] - Reading file work/wuresults_05.dat from core
[06:26:53] (Read 3527457 bytes from disk)
[06:26:53] Connecting to http://130.237.165.141:8080/
[06:27:14] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[06:27:14] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[06:27:14] (130.237.165.141:8080)
[06:27:14] + Retrying using alternative port
[06:27:14] Connecting to http://130.237.165.141:80/
You're on the move now! Opened up a can of whoop a#$.
SHHHHHHHHHH......................
Don't jinx it!!!! ;)
I don't know what's going on, either with the system I connect through or with the Folding servers, but just all-of-a-sudden stuff started Uploading again.
My current down tick is of my own doing, sort of. I bought a PS3 to watch Bluray's and DVD's and then, what the heck, fold with it too! The problem is, I had trouble getting it to talk to my wireless network. That was totally user error there! And I had it on my wired network. The problem is, here on this stupid dial-up system, the software updates were 125MB, and 98MB, and 33MB, or something like that. After shutting everything else off and going through a couple of nearly 10 hour sessions, I finally got it updated and got Life With PlayStation (or whatever it's called) installed and that's what runs folding.
I hope to get that into the folding mix tonight along with another machine that sputtered and died (more or less) on Ubuntu 9.10. Installed Mint 11 on it and hope to get that back to folding tonight after work also.
And the saga continues... ;)
Crud, apparently my main Gentoo box finally ran into that crash problem people were having on Ubuntu about a year ago. I thought I was folding for most of the past week, but I actually wasn't. :(
Oh, is that 'crash problem' with the folding client or with Gentoo itself? If it's that problem where you had to install a tweak involving something called whosyerdaddy on Ubuntu 10 to get folding to run, that has been fixed in some recent updates. It's also not a problem now with Mint 11, or Ubuntu 11.04.Quote:
Originally Posted by cybertron
In the mean time, " I thought I was folding for most of the past week, but I actually wasn't." That really sucks. :( That's close to my uploading problems. Everything seemed to be churning along fine until I look and see lots of failed uploads.
What's your plan to return to happy foldingness? :)
It should be running again already. I just downloaded the 6.34 client and it fixed the problem (I was still on 6.29 before). Now I'll have to watch for whether the results actually get uploaded. :)
Yesss.... 6.34 fixes all my issues too :)
I'm back in the game!!
C o o l . . .
:D
I wasn't paying attention. I just passed 10,000,000 points. Closing in on 10,000 Work Units.
:)
I should be reaching 5000000 pretty soon. Seems like just yesterday that I hit a million. :)
Looks like July 2011 was a good month for bs_texas, eh? ;)
Wow! Very impressive. I'm trying to cut the extra heat generation here in for the summer and your whoopin up on me.Quote:
Originally Posted by bs_texas
My folding has been down due to a move, but I should be able to get it back up and running again shortly. It worked out perfectly that it finished a work unit just before I disconnected my internet so at least the work I had done up to then didn't go to waste.
A cool million in one month :)
That's awesome!
Well, I'm in Honolulu again. I recently had some blood work done for a required Periodic Medical Evaluation. If you have something they don't think they can manage, given the limited medical facilities... then they fire you and kick you off the island and then, of course, you don't have insurance OR income.
Anyway, I passed that evaluation, thankfully, even though my PSA has continued to increase. It was at around 7 or 8 back in 2009 which prompted my first prostate biopsy. That turned out to be negative. Since then, in 2010, I had a PSA test again and it had gone up to 10. This time it's at 12.3. Had the biopsy today. Get the results Thursday. I've been here since Aug 1. The first good news was that the DRE did not reveal anything out of the ordinary. Then, the urologist sent me for an MRI to see if he could pin point places in the prostate to take cores during the biopsy. That did not show anything worth pin pointing. More good news. So, today he did about 20 random cores anyway... just to be sure :rolleyes: and I get the results Thursday.
I sure hope some of this folding is helping with prostate cancer research. If you don't know about prostate issues (it's a problem in a LOT of men), wait until you get to be my age. You will probably find out about it... unfortunately.
:D Woo Hoo...
PSA 12.3 (normal is about 2 or 3) (Prostate Specific Antigen blood test)
Small Prostate.
20 core samples taken.
ALL NEGATIVE! No Prostate Cancer evident!
The doctors are baffled. I'm having a beer!