how am i only averaging 250ppd with a 3.0ghz P4 and a 1.7Ghz C2D running 24/7?

3/7/2008 7:53:25 PM

no idea, you should get 750ppd from the C2D alone, are you using the SMP client on the C2D?

3/7/2008 7:57:40 PM

yep and its been running for at least 3 days, halp

3/7/2008 9:04:24 PM

Joined with my PS3

3/7/2008 9:05:37 PM

i just checked my task manager and the core isnt running anymore even though the FAH service is...

???

i dont know how to get it started again, i cant just click on the core application

3/7/2008 9:09:06 PM

i reinstalled, i ran the console myself, nothing worked, it just froze at "loading queue" indefinitely

so im running the single core version on my c2d for now...

3/7/2008 10:56:35 PM

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F@H Links
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3/7/2008 11:01:49 PM

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"how am i only averaging 250ppd with a 3.0ghz P4 and a 1.7Ghz C2D running 24/7?"

Quote :

"yep and its been running for at least 3 days, halp"

first off the smp on that proc will take 2.5-3 days to complete work units. also have you been running both of those clients for a full 7 days? Thats how long it takes for your PPD numbers to stabilize.

Make sure you're running FahMon on each computer (or one for the whole network) to monitor the true PPD numbers and the log so you can tell when the client stops and what errors it throws up. any post the errors/log info here
http://fahmon.net/

Quote :

"i dont know how to get it started again, i cant just click on the core application"

if you're running the service go into services.msc to stop the service and restart it. i even have .bat files on my desktop to stop and start the services by just clicking the icons.

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"Joined with my PS3"

Welcome! If you have any questions about installing the clients on your PCs just let us know

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"i reinstalled, i ran the console myself, nothing worked, it just froze at "loading queue" indefinitely"

wait a little while to see what happens and post your log file. either get it through the FahMon
program or look for the text file in whatever directory you're running the client in.


^ good looking out yo

3/8/2008 7:16:11 PM

normally when its running its running 4 programs in the background like Fahcore_a1 or something like that but i couldnt get them to start at all

it works using the single core client without any problem

3/8/2008 8:37:38 PM

^Are you running under Vista?

3/8/2008 10:36:01 PM

yep

3/8/2008 10:43:47 PM

Vista has issues with installing the client as a service. It won't work.

Uninstall the client ... reinstall it ... but this time, DO NOT install as a service. Also, make sure when you run the installer that you right-click "Run as administrator". Once installed, go into the installed directory and run the "install.bat" file, once again, make sure you right-click "Run as administrator" for this as well.

3/8/2008 10:48:27 PM

thanks ill try that

although like i said, it did work for 3 days

[Edited on March 8, 2008 at 10:57 PM. Reason : f]

3/8/2008 10:57:00 PM

still didnt work

3/8/2008 11:15:31 PM

What's the log say?

3/8/2008 11:26:55 PM

Quote :

"Vista has issues with installing the client as a service. It won't work."

i have not one but two smp clients running as services under vista. i was getting some FILE_IO_ERRORs but I think those are gone now that I reinstalled


^ yeah post some of the log where it shows the errors or whatever is happening

did you follow these instructions? http://www.ncsufolding.com/?page_id=4
did you turn off UAC? does your account have administrative rights?

3/9/2008 11:09:24 AM

ttt

&

im finally in the top 50

3/9/2008 2:00:52 PM

Damned power outage on campus today reset all of my gorilla folding machine.

3/9/2008 7:13:51 PM

it doesnt give an error message, it does however sit at this screen for hours

Quote :

" [04:03:11] - Ask before connecting: No [04:03:11] - User name: thatgoodlock (Team 59) [04:03:11] - User ID: 397179C4391FFF71 [04:03:11] - Machine ID: 1 [04:03:11] [04:03:11] Work directory not found. Creating... [04:03:11] Could not open work queue, generating new queue... [04:03:11] - Preparing to get new work unit... [04:03:11] + Attempting to get work packet [04:03:11] - Connecting to assignment server [04:03:11] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.64). [04:03:11] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home [04:03:11] Loaded queue successfully. "

yes, UAC is off, and yes i'm the administrator

and i like i said it worked perfectly as a service for 3 days and then all of sudden never showed up again, i didnt change anything...in fact ive only had the computer for a week

3/9/2008 7:34:53 PM

I got my gorilla folding machines reset. The power outage cost me ~7000 points for today. I've got to stop folding on hardware that doesn't belong to me.

3/9/2008 8:25:35 PM

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"I got my gorilla folding machines reset."

yea!

Quote :

"The power outage cost me ~7000 points for today."

damn!

Quote :

"I've got to stop folding on hardware that doesn't belong to me."

plz no

3/9/2008 8:38:10 PM

i kinda want to make that my new status name

yeah, damn, plz no

3/9/2008 8:50:49 PM

Quote :

" YEA! DAMN! PLZ NO "

3/9/2008 9:51:08 PM

so i got sick of the FILE_IO_ERRORs on my Q6600 and installed VmWare Server + 2 copies of Ubuntu each running a SMP client. It doesn't look like I can monitor those clients with my vista based FahMon, and also sounds like to install FahMon in LInux you need to download the source and compile...something thats beyond my skillset in Linux since I haven't used it much.... I guess I'll just keep an eye on frame times to figure out PPD. I'm hoping for 4,000 PPD out of it. I also set the affinity on each windows process of vmware to only use 2 cores, i read that helps too.

3/10/2008 1:37:18 AM

grrr, looks like I'm getting ~3100PPD according to the frame times. guess i don't have something set up right. but considering the FILE_IO_ERRORs I was getting under Vista I guess thats more points than I was getting...

3/10/2008 8:05:29 AM

that still ain't too shabby

3/10/2008 10:08:32 AM

yeah its not bad, but I was getting ~3600 with the 2 Vista clients (not counting the IO errors and related downtime for one of the clients.) i guess i'll be happy if the linux clients continue to run error free at 3100PPD, I was just hoping to experience this ~4000PPD+ i read about in other threads

3/10/2008 10:49:26 AM

^and that's on a Dell right?

just to take a poll, does anyone who is getting the "FILE_IO_ERRORS" have memory that's above the DDR2 spec of 800mhz @ 1.8v?

i have 1066mhz @2.3v memory and while i've tweaked the voltage and timings a million times, my client still locks up after finishing a unit and whenever i initially start the client.

3/10/2008 3:03:38 PM

i've got my ddr2 1066 running at 1.95V stable with my q6600, no more errors on vistax64 since the very first WU

it is kinda weird that i had 3 WU's finish and submit by 3pm today and the stats are always behind for me.... oh well, work is getting done that's all I really care about.

[Edited on March 10, 2008 at 7:53 PM. Reason : 1]

3/10/2008 7:52:32 PM

yea, the EOC stats are about 60 min. behind, so if you submit anytime within an hour before stats processing it won't show up until the next update in 3 hours, so it can take up to 4 hours to show up

3/10/2008 8:00:06 PM

Quote :

"^and that's on a Dell right? just to take a poll, does anyone who is getting the "FILE_IO_ERRORS" have memory that's above the DDR2 spec of 800mhz @ 1.8v?"

yeah its a dell inspiron 530. my memory is ddr2 800 1.8V, and not that it matters for FaH, but evidently I can't use anything higher voltage than that (f u dell).

^ yeah your points will hit, just wait it out

3/10/2008 8:13:55 PM

I hate it when this happens....

[02:17:47] Writing local files
[02:17:48] Completed 500000 out of 500000 steps  (100 percent)
[02:17:48] Writing final coordinates.
[02:17:48] Past main M.D. loop
[02:17:48] Will end MPI now
[02:18:48] 
[02:18:48] Finished Work Unit:
[02:18:48] - Reading up to 1899289 from "work/wudata_03.arc": Read 1899289
[02:18:48] - Reading up to 1783092 from "work/wudata_03.xtc": Read 1783092
[02:18:48] goefile size: 0
[02:18:48] logfile size: 17309
[02:18:48] Leaving Run
[02:18:52] - Writing 3704090 bytes of core data to disk...
[02:18:52] - Could not write to results file.
[02:18:52] - Error: Could not write out results to file
[02:18:52] - Shutting down core
[02:20:52] 
[02:20:52] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FILE_IO_ERROR
[02:20:52] 
[02:20:52] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FILE_IO_ERROR
[02:20:58] CoreStatus = 75 (117)
[02:20:58] Error opening or reading from a file.
[02:20:58] Deleting current work unit & continuing...

3/11/2008 8:49:10 AM

in happier news we just had a 21,169 point update

3/11/2008 9:44:11 AM

Damnit! I have 3 gorilla folding machine that won't submit their completed WUs. That's 7000pts I can't fucking get.

3/11/2008 11:20:02 AM

i take it its been a while since they were supposed to submit...

3/11/2008 11:50:01 AM

Yes. They should have submitted last night. I'll reset them later today. I'm out more than 14,000 points for the week because of the power outage and crap like this.

3/11/2008 12:12:28 PM

that blows

gl with it though, if you find a better live cd or something let us know

3/11/2008 1:08:23 PM

yeah, i'm out 4 SMP units cause of the damn power outage... i don't know why the checkpoints wouldn't let it start over again.

oh well

3/12/2008 6:15:56 AM

Well at least your point loss was involuntary. Last weekend I accidentally put my user as y, as in yes to the questions in the setup. I didnt catch it untill my ppd dropped a bunch and I started investigating why. Check the user y to see wasted points if it will make you feel better. Ahhh, I hate it when im a tard.

3/12/2008 2:06:59 PM

^ damn. i was about to say that I would rather it be my fault than theirs, but that is pretty bad happens to the best of us

3/12/2008 2:31:05 PM

I guess its good I at least got Team 59 right

[Edited on March 12, 2008 at 2:35 PM. Reason : ]

3/12/2008 2:34:11 PM

that helps

3/13/2008 7:23:17 AM

^^haha - http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=327539
y is in the top 40% already of our team...

also i just took over #4

[Edited on March 14, 2008 at 2:23 AM. Reason : .]

3/14/2008 2:22:08 AM

Quote :

"also i just took over #4"

congrats, but don't get too comfortable there

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_overtake.php?s=&u=237862

3/14/2008 7:54:43 AM

i should reach #3 before he overtakes me though, making me #4 again ... also I may be in a house in 4 months which whill add 3 more computers to the mix.

[Edited on March 14, 2008 at 10:17 AM. Reason : .]

3/14/2008 10:09:30 AM

Yeah, congrats on #4. jk

3/14/2008 10:38:01 AM

i'll tell you what, with all the new users cranking out 1,500k+ ppd, it's tough just to stay in the top 10

3/14/2008 3:00:03 PM

This looks like a decent deal for a desktop to help out with production:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=770431&referrerid=38051

3/14/2008 3:42:43 PM

aye, any C2D puts 1,000+ ppd on the board.

3/14/2008 4:24:33 PM

3/15/2008 8:26:08 AM