SMP Client

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:06 pm

http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-SMP.html

Anyone running that? I've just been running multiple instances of the regular console version.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:11 pm

https://www.speedguide.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=218665

i had a much better result running it in VMware/linux,

it will definatly make your points per week go up for sure.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:30 pm

I run it. It can be tricky at times to get it running.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:48 pm

Guess I'll give it a shot when these units get done. Sounds like it could increase the points a good bit.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:09 pm

Uh ya, look at my points now, I'm way up.

Follow the readme instructions well after the install, every time you reboot rerun install.bat

DO NOT RUN IT AS A SERVICE.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:41 pm

I don't run F@H as a service now anyhow. At least not on my main box.

Worth looking into I see.....

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:08 pm

Ok I couldn't wait.

It seems to have installed ok. If all goes well here, I'll see about adding to my dual Xeon box and see how it does.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:18 am

Seems slow. Better have some nice points at the end of this...

Current Work Unit
-----------------
Name: Protein
Tag: -
Download time: April 10 01:05:45
Due time: April 14 01:05:45
Progress: 24% [||________]

Also doesn't seem to get the CPU as hot either. Oh well.. Hope this works.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:23 am

You get like 1400-1700 poitns for each WU.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:32 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:You get like 1400-1700 poitns for each WU.

Hmm. I guess I'll see what the payoff is.

I've noticed that it says it's running at a low priority, but it doesn't like to yield CPU much. I know C&C3 loaded noticably slower with it running. Then again, it is a beta.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:39 am

it should be running 4fahcore1a priocesses and using 100% of the CPU when nothing else is using it.

Shouldnt be slowing C&C3 down, unless its eating up memory that C&C3 wants.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:43 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:it should be running 4fahcore1a priocesses and using 100% of the CPU when nothing else is using it.

Shouldnt be slowing C&C3 down, unless its eating up memory that C&C3 wants.

Well collectively it's using only 340MB. If I sort the tasks by CPU, rarely do I see any of the fahcore processes yield to another.

I'll keep messing around with it.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:35 pm

Didn't seem to do much after this first unit completed. In fact I think I fell behind some on my stats.....

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:56 pm

What CPU?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:08 am

See the result, 1100 points, they seem to update in the stats page on EOC slower.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:36 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:What CPU?

E6300 stock clock on this box.

YARDofSTUF wrote:See the result, 1100 points, they seem to update in the stats page on EOC slower.

Nice! Indeed that was the case. I was a little worried I didn't get the credit for the unit. Good thing I left the SMP running.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:07 pm

E6300, definitely worth using the SMP core on.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:39 pm

Another unit down (sometime late morning).

The SMP client doesn't seem to like my Dual Xeon box. With HT turned on, I barely made it to 6% in 12 hours. I'm going to give it a go without HT.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:24 pm

Yeah HT may be slowing it down because it splits teh work up evenly to each core and if the 2 real cores finish a step early they have to wait for the virtual ones to catch up.

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:17 pm

Well turning off HT did help. It's at least progressing now. I think I may go back to the regular FAH on that box though. The projects that teh SMP clients get seem to be tough. I read that they tend to be more cache intense (2610). Given there's only 512k on each processor.

We'll see how it looks tomorrow.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:39 pm

are there suppose to be 4 fahcore_a1.exe processes running?
they add up to 100% but just looks funny.

I'm using an e6300 @ 3.16 ghz right now.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:41 pm

Yup, it will always open 4 cores.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:41 pm

and manually running the install.bat each time sux and does not automatically start the client.

What step am i missing?

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:50 pm

I should add more to the above by stating that in Vista you can not drag an item into the startup folder, and google is failing me on this problem for now.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:53 pm

loop2kil wrote:and manually running the install.bat each time sux and does not automatically start the client.

What step am i missing?

Well its not a smooth process yet. its BETA, REALLY BETA lol

For me, right now, I have to shut it down after each WU is sent because it hangs on "Working..." if I dont and then restart fah.exe.

If I reboot I have to run install.bat, then run fah.exe.

That covers 90% of the time. Other times when a WU starts and sits on "Entering M.D." but doesnt do anything(a good hint is that only 3 cores will do anything, sometimes teh line will be repeated twice) then I delete the work folder and queue file and restart fah.exe until it fixes. Sometimes it will sit on "Entering M.D." and then repeat it and give an error, but then go on to start the WU.

So if its working, you didnt miss a step

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:57 pm

loop2kil wrote:I should add more to the above by stating that in Vista you can not drag an item into the startup folder, and google is failing me on this problem for now.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Window ... 71033.mspx

First item.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:05 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Window ... 71033.mspx

First item.

that's to the 'start menu,' not the 'Startup' folder.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:13 am

loop2kil wrote:that's to the 'start menu,' not the 'Startup' folder.

Oh... You want it to start on boot? Dont do that, you need to run install.bat first anyway

Addict · Post by **Addict** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:26 am

Just manually run it for now. At some point they will fix the bugs that are there. Or go back to the other clients. Which I'd suggest anyhow so that I don't have to worry about you passing me up.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:57 am

Addict wrote:Just manually run it for now. At some point they will fix the bugs that are there. Or go back to the other clients. Which I'd suggest anyhow so that I don't have to worry about you passing me up.

muhahahaha.