folding@home and Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere

Raoul_Duke · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 10:04 am Post subject:

Friendly *bump* to keep people interested...

bassvandijk · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 5:05 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I've been running the folding@home for a week now, but I can't see my stats on the stats page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/searchstats

/opt/foldingathome/client.cfg

Accipiter · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:59 pm Post subject: Two processors?

I want to contribute to the GLUE folding team... but I run a dual-processor system and it's only using one CPU. How can I make it use two? The Folding@Home FAQ only covers windoze machines.

lin00b · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 15

ok, i have emerged foldingathome and joined GLUE

a few questions
1. i have found a gkrellm2 plugin that monitors f@h, problem is, it dont seem to work, it dont start f@h from gkrellm and it displays ***not running even when i have manually started f@h

from my .gkrellm2/user-config

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

We made it to the TOP 100 finally. Good work guys!!!
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supenguin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Jul 2002 Posts: 95

I just joined the team. I had been thinking about doing this before, just never got around to it.
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CDLM · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject: Re: Two processors?

tomk · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:44 am Post subject:

OK. I haven't got a dual-processor (I really wish I did) so I'm not sure if this would actually work. I've written a script for dual-processor machines to run folding@home:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=119919

If you've got a dual processor box please test the script.
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gdoubleu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 80

v4.00 is out of beta. ebuild anyone?

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

Noticed there was a ebuild submitted in bugs. Haven't tried it though. Since old one still working, going to wait till it is out.
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christsong84 · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

joined the team...

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georwell · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:15 pm Post subject:

hmmm current ebuild runs the client as root. Not a good idea. I was going to submit a patch but it had already been done.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37327

You may trust the foldingathome client but do you really want a process you have no control over running as root? Maybe the ebuild should also chroot this process too.

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

I didn't worry about that too much until read a few security books on Linux.
The less 3rd party programs running as root the better.
Glad someone thought of this. Good idea.
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ColeSlaw · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject:

Holy cow, I've not been paying attention to my folding@home stats until I looked just now. I've managed to jump to number 33 on the list! This tells me that some of the folders out there are slacking a little bit... I don't fold 24/7 either!
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jimbojetset · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 67 Location: UK

Just joined the team - folding with two computers 24/7 (running gentoo naturally

) - Got my flatmate folding too

Lets start moving up this top 100....

Jim

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

ok my Servers idle CPU time now goes to this :-)

hopefully it backs down really well when my cron jobs start (thumbnail generation, etc)

pharaoh · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject:

Wish I knew you guys were down with folding@home....I found out through Somethingawful and hopped on that team :roll:

All in all I just think it's a great cause!

iswm · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:27 am Post subject:

I'm in. Although the client seems to be having trouble connecting to a work server.

Gav · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 65 Location: Surrey, UK

I'm starting to turn in a few WU for Gentoo, having been folding for Silent PC Review for nearly 6 months. Seeing that GLUE can make up some progress and that I can give something back in the form of spare cycles for using Gentoo. I'm folding as the user "CoolGav"...

BlueEar · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject:

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

You might need to send him a PM to get him to answer.
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ViperX883 · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:19 pm Post subject:

Hey fellas, if you are looking for the best folding stats anywhere on the net, then I highly recommend www.extremeoverclocking.com. The stas page there is generally agreed to be the best by justabout all the folding teams. Check it out if you're interested. We also have some great info about folding available in the forums there, so that may be interesting as well. Happy folding fellas!!!

Monkeywrench · Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:59 am Post subject:

ViperX883 · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:09 am Post subject:

Yeah, they actually run mostly PC's, so their name is really a misnomer. We are inconstant competition with them.

Monkeywrench · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:13 am Post subject: