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notfred wrote:

No, there is nothing there yet. I could add a parameter that would allow you to specify what domain they should go in (default "Diskless"). Would that help?

Hyperlife wrote:

I'd like to fold on a laptop using a USB drive, but I'm a bit concerned about image persistence from the screen being on and not changing for days at a time. (In theory, LCDs don't suffer from burn-in, but there have been reports of ghosting I've come across). I can't turn the screen off independently, and the BIOS doesn't include any power features for the screen.

Would it be possible to include a screen blanker, such as setterm -blank 60 or something in the boot process?

rsculthorp wrote:

I was also wondering if there is a command I can add to the isolinux.cfg that will turn off the netbios Samba broadcasting? I like being able to monitor the boxes from my workstation, but I am not fond of the "diskless" domain showing up in my network neighborhood.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

Could you just not have them listed at all? That seems to be what I gather he was asking.

theMASS wrote:

rsculthorp wrote:

I was also wondering if there is a command I can add to the isolinux.cfg that will turn off the netbios Samba broadcasting? I like being able to monitor the boxes from my workstation, but I am not fond of the "diskless" domain showing up in my network neighborhood.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

Could you just not have them listed at all? That seems to be what I gather he was asking.

Do you want the ability to disable SAMBA... or just not have the boxes listed publicly?

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

Disabling samba would prevent him from 'being able to monitor the boxes from [his] workstation" so I don't think he wants that, but rather the option to just not having them publicly listed and browse-to-able by anyone on the network.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

Could you just not have them listed at all? That seems to be what I gather he was asking.

theMASS wrote:

NF- If you do decide to add the option... how about the choice to display the fahlog.txt in the console window as one of the options?

notfred wrote:

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

Could you just not have them listed at all? That seems to be what I gather he was asking.

I'm not sure that Windows networking works that way. I could just not start nmbd and only run smbd, but then I think you might have to specify the IP to connect to them. I'm also rather concerned if this is a request to hide them that maybe these are not authorised folding boxes or authorised use of network resources. I can understand a request to allow the workgroup to be changed to match that of some other machines, but hiding them totally sounds sneaky to me.

theMASS wrote:

NF- If you do decide to add the option... how about the choice to display the fahlog.txt in the console window as one of the options?

I used to have it running that way, but if you are running multiple instances you can only have one outputting to the screen. Also you loose visibility of what that particular machine's IP address / name is, so I'm inclined to leave it with the information there. Implementing a screen blank option is pretty easy, I'm not sure that getting the screen back once it has blanked is quite as easy though - I don't load any keyboard or mouse drivers and I don't know if it just needs input or if it actually needs the input to go anywhere. I'm going to look at it anyway.

Just thought it could kinda work as a screensaver, and avoid the getting the screen back issue. Losing visibility of the IP / Network Name would be an issue, but still better than totally blank screen I prefer it the way it is currently, although with samba support now the IP address isn't as crucial as it used to be since the boxes are nicely grouped in the diskless workgroup

I'm actually in the middle of updating to newer versions of the kernel, glibc and busybox. I've got busybox done and it gave me the web directory listing fix for free. As I do the kernel I'll take a look at the screen blank thing and also the possibility of an "official" VMWare folding appliance.

RAH wrote:

I have come up with a question. Might just me to tired to find it right now.

I have been using the USB. Decide to set up disk less. My server is an XP machine, which will be folding GPU when new
client arrives. Got everything set up, without to much problem. Then the last machine (the USB one), an ABIT AS8, I
can't get to boot correctly via LAN.
I get:
Client Mac Address XX XX XX XX XX XX GUID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
PXE-E51: (Then this) - No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were recieved

PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot Failure, insert system disk and press enter

I would go back to using the USB, but since I shut of DHCP on my router, it won't work.

Any help?



OOPS! For some reason the server wasn't staying on. Tftpd32 that is. Got it set.

But anyway. How would you run a USB stick with this set up?

RAH wrote:

I would go back to using the USB, but since I shut of DHCP on my router, it won't work.

Any help?

OOPS! For some reason the server wasn't staying on. Tftpd32 that is. Got it set.

But anyway. How would you run a USB stick with this set up?

theMASS wrote:

I do have a new request and will make it properly @ SF but I'll also mention it here... CPU temp?

theMASS wrote:

I do have a new request and will make it properly @ SF but I'll also mention it here... CPU temp?

notfred wrote:

That's actually pretty tricky as there is still no standard way of reading temp. The most standard is probably ACPI Thermal Zone, but I'm running a Q6600 on a P5K-VM and it doesn't support it. I could add it in with the proviso that it may not work everywhere.

theMASS wrote:

rsculthorp wrote:

I was also wondering if there is a command I can add to the isolinux.cfg that will turn off the netbios Samba broadcasting? I like being able to monitor the boxes from my workstation, but I am not fond of the "diskless" domain showing up in my network neighborhood.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

Could you just not have them listed at all? That seems to be what I gather he was asking.

Do you want the ability to disable SAMBA... or just not have the boxes listed publicly?

theMASS wrote:

Highly recommend the GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3P if anyone is thinking about a mobo in the US$150 range

rsculthorp wrote:

I have heard some good things about this board and the -DS4 version in general. I have been looking at the G-EX38-DS4 for my next quad core over the -EP35-DS4 only because it boasts the 1600 FSB and DDR 1200 native, opposed to overclocking. But regaurdless, both are killer boards.

Rod

- Is it fine to run two (or more) instances of the diskless folding suite (on separate virtual machines) on one computer?
- If it is, can Machine ID's be set?

notfred wrote:

I believe running two instances in different VMs on the same computer will be OK as I think they end up with different machinedependent.dat files.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:

On a quad, wouldn't 2 SMP clients be better than 4?

flybywire wrote:

You're saying that you can install 4 smp clients on 1 quad?

flybywire wrote:

None of my quads are clocked that high, and now with warm weather approaching, it's not going to even be a consideration.

cob wrote:

Would I need a separate USB drive for each VM, or would each VM be able to use the same drive?

cob wrote:

flybywire wrote:

None of my quads are clocked that high, and now with warm weather approaching, it's not going to even be a consideration.

At 3.5ghz I found that it took roughly 35 hours to complete every 4 work units. That meant that there was over 50% of the usual 3 day 'preferred deadline' left. Thus the tighter 2 day preferred deadline work units that appear every now and again were also met with no issues.

Ofcourse you would have to experiment with your own system, but with the steady flow of 1760 pointers that systems set to 2 CPU cores seem to get (VMWare only allows 2 CPU cores per VM [hence the need to run two VMs on a quad]; I'm not sure about the Diskless Folding Suite), I was averaging 4700-5000 ppd running 24/7.

notfred wrote:

cob wrote:

Would I need a separate USB drive for each VM, or would each VM be able to use the same drive?

You're going to need a separate USB drive per VM, and note that it can get tricky under Linux hosting to get the VM to pick up the drive so that the guest VM can use it. I don't run Windows so I don't know if it suffers from the same temperamental behaviour
I am working right now on an "Official" diskless VMWare image that will use a .vmdk virtual disk to run from and save and restore the WUs, keep your eyes open for the next release.

theMASS wrote:

And Yes getting multiple USB sticks working under VMWare...not something I was able to get working.