It's not just debian/ubuntu either. I've seen reports of it on Fedora Core and Arch as well. I think I recall Suse having problems too. The issue seems to be that the kernel and gcc have both progressed significantly and the folding client hasn't been updated (or at least recompiled) to keep up.
It's not just debian/ubuntu either. I've seen reports of it on Fedora Core and Arch as well. I think I recall Suse having problems too. The issue seems to be that the kernel and gcc have both progressed significantly and the folding client hasn't been updated (or at least recompiled) to keep up.
Indeed. The worst part is that F@H is a relatively simple program. It probably literally just needs to be recompiled with the new version of gcc so that it is linked with updated libraries properly.
Finally back up to my normal production levels (or at least I should be starting today). My workstation was in dire need of reimaging.... mostly because I'm too lazy to go through and selectively clean up the things I've broken/tweaked resulting in poor performance. Installed Arch instead of Ubuntu. Oh look... F@H works under Arch still.
I can't believe I raised my PPD. I updated drivers on server and it reset settings for SLI and shit and I spent a good couple days with it not working then my 465 kept hiccuping on WUs. Meh.
Edit: maybe that occurred outside of the challenge period. derp
I gave up trying to get my laptop to fold. Lately, I've had the SMP client lose all of its progress on a WU after I shut it down and restart it (with no acknowledgement in the log at all). On my laptop, I have to do that regularly, so it wasn't worth losing WUs that take 2 days to finish on an older C2D.
Turning on the GPU client on my home rig made up for the points loss, though.
That is weird. I can shutdown/restart on my desktop (which I do every few days) without any issues on WU. I would say maybe it's a data write delay issue, but you shouldn't lose all progress. Very strange.
The weirdest thing is that it's not like the computer crashed and the WU fails integrity checks. It's just the next time it starts, it starts at 0% without saying anything out of the ordinary is going on. Happened on my desktop once, too.
Oh well. Both of my desktops are stable now and rarely need to be restarted, so no big deal I guess.
The only guess I would have would be possibly permissions related (though that still doesn't make sense). You could try moving the client into a public folder and running it from there as a service then seeing what happens.
Just wanted to inform everyone that in just under 2 weeks I will be going away for 2 whole months and because my house is going to be rented out, I will not be able to leave my desktop folding for the time I am away (sorry ). If anyone below me wishes to overtake me, that time is your best chance! As when I get back I will hopefully be able to get a overclock on my cpu.
Challenge 10: Runs November 22th, Monday, to November 30th, a Tuesday. This challenge will be to add a folding client to your number of currently active folding clients as tracked by stanford(example). I will be using the number of active clients within 7 days. I will create a list of active clients at the start and end of the period.
Again this will only be done for the top 20 producers, I do allow write-ins by means of posting here that you accept the challenge stating your folding name for Icrontic or PM me your folding name and that you accept the challenge. We are drawing near to the first year of folding hero challenges, only two more left after this month.
Ack, only one more day to get in on this. I failed the borging of the office comp, which is just as well as the P4 in it probably wouldn't produce enough to make it worthwhile to burn even someone else's electricity. Working on an alternate strategy...
Hey, I loaded clients up on 3 P4s. They made a nice compliment to a 2.33GHz core2 that I threw an SMP on, 1k+ plus for the core2 and about 450 across all the P4s.
Yes the P4s are horrible at folding now with the current WUs but I look at it more in the sense how much production can I pick to cover me playing video games or doing programming work so my production dips are equal to my old high production days.
Challenge 10 is done: Leonardo, Enisada, Lordbean, Gargoy*BW*, Wei_Yang, vid, drasnor all completed the challenge. They all only increased their active clients by 1, while I rocked it hard with adding 4 clients.
Our top 3 folders with the most clients are: DanG(26), Leo(16), and _k_(13). Chew on that for a bit.
A minor challenger . It's sad that ATI has such terrible production (for now, at least). One day, devs will release the openCL version of F@H and their production will go up (dramatically?).
A minor challenger . It's sad that ATI has such terrible production (for now, at least). One day, devs will release the openCL version of F@H and their production will go up (dramatically?).
True. I just got this one to match the identical card I have at home so I can Crossfire them one day. I was afraid that this particular model would go out of production soon, so I got it while it was on sale.
It seems like they promised an OpenCL version a long time ago, now. And according to the FAQ, none of the clients work on the 6000-series Radeons at all right now. ATI needs some love too, guys.
Challenge 11: Show your dedication by having a folding client under your Team 93 folding name turn in 300 WUs without being restarted or shut down. You can do this using HFM.NET, it will track how many units a client has turned in since it was started(pausing does not affect this count). To get credit simply post/PM a screen cap of it during the challenge period or PM me that you have done this and current count of completed WUs. This is on the honor system. Challenge period is December 25th to December 31st.
This is the second to last challenge boys and girls, remember you need to complete 6 folding challenges out of the 12 to get credit for the year and get a free t-shirt. Check out this thread in regards to this.
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It's not just debian/ubuntu either. I've seen reports of it on Fedora Core and Arch as well. I think I recall Suse having problems too. The issue seems to be that the kernel and gcc have both progressed significantly and the folding client hasn't been updated (or at least recompiled) to keep up.
Indeed. The worst part is that F@H is a relatively simple program. It probably literally just needs to be recompiled with the new version of gcc so that it is linked with updated libraries properly.
Edit: maybe that occurred outside of the challenge period. derp
Turning on the GPU client on my home rig made up for the points loss, though.
Oh well. Both of my desktops are stable now and rarely need to be restarted, so no big deal I guess.
Again this will only be done for the top 20 producers, I do allow write-ins by means of posting here that you accept the challenge stating your folding name for Icrontic or PM me your folding name and that you accept the challenge. We are drawing near to the first year of folding hero challenges, only two more left after this month.
Ack, only one more day to get in on this. I failed the borging of the office comp, which is just as well as the P4 in it probably wouldn't produce enough to make it worthwhile to burn even someone else's electricity. Working on an alternate strategy...
Yes the P4s are horrible at folding now with the current WUs but I look at it more in the sense how much production can I pick to cover me playing video games or doing programming work so my production dips are equal to my old high production days.
Our top 3 folders with the most clients are: DanG(26), Leo(16), and _k_(13). Chew on that for a bit.
Should be good for a couple thousand PPD.
True. I just got this one to match the identical card I have at home so I can Crossfire them one day. I was afraid that this particular model would go out of production soon, so I got it while it was on sale.
It seems like they promised an OpenCL version a long time ago, now. And according to the FAQ, none of the clients work on the 6000-series Radeons at all right now. ATI needs some love too, guys.
Well damn. I'll be in touch if I get a board that can do 3-way Crossfire
This is the second to last challenge boys and girls, remember you need to complete 6 folding challenges out of the 12 to get credit for the year and get a free t-shirt. Check out this thread in regards to this.
Right hand side of the screen cap it says "Complete" and "Failed", you need to the complete number to be 300 or better.
Welp, I won't be getting this one. I restarted my rigs last week to do some Windows updates.