folding@home and Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

From that page it sounds like they dropped 32bit after 6.02. You're better off keeping that old version, it should continue to work at least until they make a new 32bit release. I think all the newer one added is the bigadv SMP2 WUs (which need 64bit and tons of cores to finish within the deadline).

dalek · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:44 pm Post subject:

nomilieu · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 24

dalek: Any chance you've changed locations since last folding?
I can fold absolutely everywhere except at my dad's house, with the same computer and settings that work elsewhere, and I decided it had to do with his crappy router (which has, for example, no ipv6 support among other issues that I had to work around).

I ask because I got the same output you did.

dalek · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:40 am Post subject:

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Lomendil · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 16

So I was building a little 80 node computing cluster and tried out ubuntu server for the nodes. That was a big mistake. I'm talking random kernel panics, oddly high CPU usage, and an inability to do ACPI reboots. It's amazing what they do to such a stable OS.

I replaced with Gentoo and now it's running beautifully. Thought I'd test out the cluster and show gratitude with some folding. Posting here to bump for awareness; the GLUE team seems like it can be in pretty good shape, why not spare a few cycles, fellow users?
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Garumental · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2014 Posts: 4 Location: Western Sweden

Perhaps a bit late to the party. Only 31 active folders left on the gentoo team. Where did everybody go?

dalek · Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:11 am Post subject:

forrestfunk81 · Guru Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 565 Location: münchen.de

While crunching, my energy costs have been four times greater than normal. Due to the german energy costs, this was too much.

And imho the credit assignment is intransparent. In some projects you can earn more credits than in other projects (even if both are GPU projects or both are CPU projects). So if you want to get a high credit rank, you have to support projects which give you many credits, even if you think that other projects are more useful.
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hariskar · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jan 2017 Posts: 168

Things are quite in this topic, Gentoo team lost 2 positions the last 10 days, come on, start folding!

dalek · Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 7:35 am Post subject:

It's summer time now. To hot for that.
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flyerone · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2019 Posts: 61 Location: 127 0 0 1

Hi,

I was folding many year ago on a Q6600. The Linux version is stuck with a command line, my old setup is gone for good and wondered if it's a good idea to get folding again?

Tried foldingathome ran manually this Friday. And to the last post I'll need the heat at this time of the year so no energy is a-wastin.

I have an Intel 8700, 64Gb RAM and the Asus RTX 2070 to get me off to a good start. I ran this line for a day so it didn't run so hot:

/opt/foldingathome/FAHClient --gpu=true --gpu-usage=80

Is it possible to set it up further with a web browser to see how I'm doing so far?

Regards,

Roger.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

The web status page listens by default on http://localhost:7396/. It's already there unless you turn it off.

flyerone · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2019 Posts: 61 Location: 127 0 0 1

Got it, thanks. I don't know why I saw port 36330 on their pages.

I had it running for two days and now the web page says CPU: 0% GPU:0% - I've tried the four methods there but no Covid on the page so it must be outdated.

Thanks anyway. Guess I could put this to bed then.

Regards.

axl · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1144 Location: Romania

I've been folding too. It helps to repair the broken systemd service file (-v start/restart/stop doesn't work on my client). also add foldingathome to video group to get access to the videocard. other than that ... smooth sailing. I actually did 2 covid sets.

flyerone · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2019 Posts: 61 Location: 127 0 0 1

I've had the FAHClient running the GPU at 71C for almost two days. I took a break and when I got back to start folding with the settings I've posted - 80% on the GPU to make it run cooler - this happened:

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

This here is the problem:

flyerone · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2019 Posts: 61 Location: 127 0 0 1

Thanks, I think I've read that somewhere.. I've managed to:

Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1623 Location: U.S.A.

Has anyone managed to get the GPU working. Just my CPU is working.

axl · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1144 Location: Romania

Did you try adding the "foldingathome" user to video group?

hariskar · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jan 2017 Posts: 168

Decibels
Put spmething like this in config.xml to set opencl-index manualy

<slot id='0' type='GPU'>
<client-type v='advanced'/>
<gpu-index v='1'/>
<opencl-index v='1'/>
</slot>

Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1623 Location: U.S.A.

axl

hariskar · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jan 2017 Posts: 168

Maybe try with value 0?

axl · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1144 Location: Romania

Do you have opencl flag enabled? Could emerge clinfo and try to run that to try to diagnose opencl.