Yeah, I use big WU's, but then again I have a lot of ram. AFAIK, the big ones will advance your score faster, but they can take a looooong time on an older machine.
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Yeah, I use big WU's, but then again I have a lot of ram. AFAIK, the big ones will advance your score faster, but they can take a looooong time on an older machine.
I know that, with the normal options, I can run FAH in the background without really affecting performance. I was specifically asking about the big WUs as my work machine has a P4 proc and 2 GB RAM. So I was thinking of turning on the big WUs and advmethods but it's my work machine as well so it still needs to be functional. I think I will try it out when I get back into the office after the holidays. Thanks for the advice.
Well after a hiatus I am folding again with some force. A Sempron has replaced a PII and a Barton 3200 was replaced with a AMD64 3000+. Need a new mobo for the ol' barton to get it folding again. Need to get around to giving a PIV a new hdd and reassigning an old PII to get them folding.
I am a lowlife and a spammer and I should be flogged.
Glad I got that off my chest :D
Just an update on our status:
We are currently ranked 146th out of 42383 teams.
We have over 3430016 points.
202 Active CPUs, not bad considering we only have around 40 active members! The sad part of this is we have had 103 people join and only 40 have remained active! :(
Currently we have 2 members churning out over 1000 points a day - dkeav and andermic. :O
We average roughly 229 Points Per Day.
(ssh home.net && /etc/init.d/foldingathome start && exit)
/me cracks the whip! C'mon gang! Let's take it to the next level!
How does this sound, "Top 100 F@H Team!"
I wonder if they'd give us T-shirts? :D
i cured cancer and all i got was this lousy t-shirt :D
I don't have a unintinfo.txt file. Any ideas why? Here's some info:
Looking at the points it would appear I'm still reporting, although there has been a slight drop, and top shows foldingathome is working on something pretty hard.Code:# pwd
/opt/foldingathome/client1
localhost client1 # ls
FAHlog.txt MyFolding.html client.cfg foldingathome machinedependent.dat
localhost client1 # cat client.cfg
[settings]
username=ions
team=36480
asknet=no
bigpackets=yes
machineid=1
[http]
active=no
host=localhost
port=8080
Hmmm:Code:# ps aux | grep folding
104 13408 98.4 0.0 1836 616 ? RNs Jan24 2227:02 /opt/foldingathome/client1/foldingathome
Code:# cat FAHlog.txt
--- Opening Log file [January 25 00:36:29]
# Linux Console Edition #######################################################
###############################################################################
Folding@Home Client Version 5.02
http://folding.stanford.edu
###############################################################################
###############################################################################
Launch directory: /opt/foldingathome/client1
Executable: /opt/foldingathome/client1/foldingathome
Arguments: -configonly
[00:36:29] Configuring Folding@Home...
[00:36:49] - Ask before connecting: No
[00:36:49] - User name: ions (Team 36480)
[00:36:49] - User ID not found locally
[00:36:49] + Requesting User ID from server
[00:36:49] - Machine ID: 1
[00:36:49]
[00:36:49] -configonly flag given, so exiting.
--- Opening Log file [January 25 00:40:51]
# Linux Console Edition #######################################################
###############################################################################
Folding@Home Client Version 5.02
http://folding.stanford.edu
###############################################################################
###############################################################################
Launch directory: /opt/foldingathome/client1
Executable: /opt/foldingathome/client1/foldingathome
Arguments: -configonly
[00:40:51] - Ask before connecting: No
[00:40:51] - User name: ions (Team 36480)
[00:40:51] - User ID: 7846A4AB29642002
[00:40:51] - Machine ID: 1
[00:40:51]
[00:40:51] Configuring Folding@Home...
[00:41:06] - Ask before connecting: No
[00:41:06] - User name: ions (Team 36480)
[00:41:06] - User ID: 7846A4AB29642002
[00:41:06] - Machine ID: 1
[00:41:06]
[00:41:06] -configonly flag given, so exiting.
So I ran the config once again:
Where is this -configonly flag coming from?!Code:# /opt/foldingathome/initfolding
Note: Please read the license agreement (foldingathome -license). Further
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement.
Folding@Home User Configuration
--- Opening Log file [January 26 14:26:40]
# Linux Console Edition #######################################################
###############################################################################
Folding@Home Client Version 5.02
http://folding.stanford.edu
###############################################################################
###############################################################################
Launch directory: /opt/foldingathome/client1
Executable: /opt/foldingathome/client1/foldingathome
Arguments: -configonly
[14:26:40] - Ask before connecting: No
[14:26:40] - User name: ions (Team 36480)
[14:26:40] - User ID: 7846A4AB29642002
[14:26:40] - Machine ID: 1
[14:26:40]
[14:26:40] Configuring Folding@Home...
User name [ions]?
Team Number [36480]?
Ask before fetching/sending work (no/yes) [no]?
Use proxy (yes/no) [no]?
Allow receipt of work assignments and return of work results greater than
5MB in size (such work units may have large memory demands) (no/yes) [yes]?
Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]?
[14:26:50] - Ask before connecting: No
[14:26:50] - User name: ions (Team 36480)
[14:26:50] - User ID: 7846A4AB29642002
[14:26:50] - Machine ID: 1
[14:26:50]
[14:26:50] -configonly flag given, so exiting.
/opt/foldingathome/initfolding: line 4: 6218 Terminated /opt/foldingathome/client1/foldingathome -configonly
Here are my USE flags:
I don't see a -configonly there.Code:USE="alsa apm avi asf bash-completion bitmap-fonts calendars cups dvd dvdr eds encode evo \
foomaticdb ftp gb gd gif gnome gtk gtk2 hal jabber java jpeg mozilla mp3 mpeg \
msn nptl nptlonly offensive php png pnp quicktime samba scanner \
spell tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis win32codecs xine xmms yahoo -kde \
-mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznofxt -mozsvg -qt \
-xinerama"
And this is the version installed:
Code:# emerge -vps foldingathome
Searching...
[ Results for search key : foldingathome ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* sci-biology/foldingathome
Latest version available: 5.0.2-r4
Latest version installed: 5.0.2-r4
Size of downloaded files: 243 kB
Homepage: http://folding.stanford.edu/
Description: Help simulate protein folding at home
License: folding-at-home
You got a t-shirt?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by dkeav
ions, is there something in the init script that would be adding -configonly?
If it does I'm not aware of it. My points have dropped. Even though the proc is working on something it's not folding.
tail -f /opt/foldingathome/client1/FAHlog.txt
it's folding, but probably as Anonymous for the gentoo team. Gotta fix client.cfg, I think.
Code:# tail -f /opt/foldingathome/client1/FAHlog.txt
[14:31:01]
[14:31:01] Configuring Folding@Home...
[14:31:07] - Ask before connecting: No
[14:31:07] - User name: ions (Team 36480)
[14:31:07] - User ID: 7846A4AB29642002
[14:31:07] - Machine ID: 1
[14:31:07]
[14:31:07] -configonly flag given, so exiting.
What about just downloading the binary from the official site? Not running Gentoo myself, is there any benefit to using the package from Portage?