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Ragnar Dan wrote:An update on my farm: I've modified all of my SMP machines (4 in total, all dual core), and indeed all of the notfred Linux boxes have improved their speed noticeably. The Linux client in a VM on my Opteron also seems to have improved a bit, but that thing is so variable it's often difficult to tell much, though it seems to have improved less than the others for whatever reason.
Anyway, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Ragnar Dan wrote:tear's fix. I haven't seen a new notfred's.
The Linux client in a VM on my Opteron also seems to have improved a bit, but that thing is so variable it's often difficult to tell much, though it seems to have improved less than the others for whatever reason.
Ragnar Dan wrote:If I can find that site to turn things into the right stuff for VMware Player, anyway.
Flying Fox wrote:Ragnar Dan wrote:If I can find that site to turn things into the right stuff for VMware Player, anyway.
EasyVMX?
Ragnar Dan wrote:
Now the place has changed and I can't remember what I did to make it work for me last time. I also have to recall how much longer my Win 7 RC will keep working, since when it quits I'll have to find a new OS, and as good as Linux can be, and maybe people can run Wine to make GPU's fold, I'm still doubtful I can run RivaTuner under Wine (though maybe... I'm just doubtful).
weedacres wrote:Ragnar Dan wrote:
Now the place has changed and I can't remember what I did to make it work for me last time. I also have to recall how much longer my Win 7 RC will keep working, since when it quits I'll have to find a new OS, and as good as Linux can be, and maybe people can run Wine to make GPU's fold, I'm still doubtful I can run RivaTuner under Wine (though maybe... I'm just doubtful).
I played with Win 7 on a couple of my dedicated folding pc's and always end up back with XP. On both a dual core and quad core I experienced about a 11% penalty in smp performance with W7 compared to XP. I found it harder to set up and didn't particularly like the "improvements", so why stick with it if it's slower.
nonymoussurfer wrote:Notfred: Thanks very much for the brilliant folding utilities. I've got 5 c2q's running some flavor of Notfred folding. If your folding suite was not available, I'm not sure I'd have the patience to use them to fold under windows.
I check every so often for new versions & recently noticed temp monitoring seems to have been added. My question is how to use this function. I've not been able to figure out how to extract CPU temperatures. I figure there is probably a user guide somewhere explaining how to do this but if there is I haven't found it. I do see the "Processor temperatures (Intel Core and AMD K8)" link when I browse to the IP of one of my "Diskless Folder" notfred SMP clients. However when I click the link, only "Core 0 Core 1" is displayed & no temp data is present... This is true of all my machines. I remember reading somewhere (probably on this board) that a "sensors" or "lmsensors" command might be all that is necessary to get the CPU to start spitting out core temp data... Is this something that must be manually entered from the linux command line ? If so, my syntax must be incorrect...
Can someone please provide instructions to activate the temp monitoring feature? And please talk slowly and e-nun-ciate for the stupid, linux challenged people such as myself. If there is a how-to guide already written, if you could kindly direct me to it I'd be very grateful.
Thanks again for the amazing folding tools.
notfred wrote:Are you running under a VM or booting via some other method (CD, USB, netboot?) I haven't checked under a VM but I suspect that the VM may not be making the temperature monitoring parts of the processor available to the guest OS. If you are running via one of the other methods then the C2Quads should have the sensors built in that I look for. It doesn't need lmsensors, it uses the "coretemp" module to read the sensors from the processor directly and then I read them from sysfs. It's the fact that it only finds 2 processors on a C2Q that makes me think you are running in a VM.
BTW all my diskless stuff is Open Source and GPL'd. If people have things that they can fix, I welcome diffs. I'm having problems at the moment though as I've moved up to Ubuntu 9.10 for my desktop and GLibC no longer builds. I need to get some time to send an email off the the GLibC folks.
slugbug wrote:When will a new version with the new 6.29 folding client be available?
waKKu wrote:Yeah... would be easy and nice but...
This server/model has no PCI slots, so to use an additional NIC I'll need to buy a PCI-Express card.. ;/
Well... I'll try to solve this some way or another. If I do it, I let you know
Thanks anyway
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