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I'm running 2 GTX460's, one with shaders at 1732 and the other at 1735. Both on the same Q6600 which is also running the smp client under XP32 on a dedicated folding pc. Driver is 258.96
I'm running the GPU3 client and regular getting between 14,000 - 15,000 ppd on fermi projects.

If you install Vmware tools onto Linux, there is a synchronize time with host option. - JP VMtools won't install on notfreds nor the bigadv slackware client. I think you need a full blown linux distribution for it to install. When I was running Ubuntu 8.04 under VMware I had vmtools installed and i...

But the -passkey requirement irks me, and I'm going to have to do power calculations which will be difficult to find accurate figures for in order to compute them. At least I'll get an estimate of whether it's worth the effort and what the electrical costs or savings would be (because I might retir...

I have a script running periodically to do the backups, I could throw in some time sync stuff of some sort in to that. I think that would help a lot of people out. From what I see it's rarely the hardware clock that drifts, just the system clock, so hwclock -s would seem to be a good approach. I ru...

Yeah, it is screwing up measuring the ppd big time I can see. I am seeing it now in FahMon. Another weird thing is that the interval from one % to the next may not be constant. I am getting some % taking 12 minutes and then another take>1hr. :o This is seriously screwing up any measurements. I move...

Question: if I just want the VM to fold and not for measuring stuff, do I really need to care about the drift? Just let it quietly chew up the WUs being thrown at the VM is good enough? I've seen no effect on folding itself. It just screws up the monitoring programs from what I can tell. I have 15 ...

There's been some discussion in the fah forums about clock drift. While the problem isn't solved, it can be circumvented with the suggestions in this thread: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=12535 Which lead to this wiki being created: http://fahwiki.net/index.php/VMware%2C_Linux_Fol...

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 shou...

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 ...

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 d...

Has anybody been experiencing GPU crashes in Windows 7 64bit? My video card is 9800GTX and the driver is current. The CPU clients are working just fine and my computer has been up for at least 24 hours now. I am certain it is not overheating and is not overclocked. I've just started folding under W...

What a delicious farm you have there weedacres! :P Is weedacres anywhere near "Green Acres"? Is it a place to be? :lol: Are you folding for Team TR? :o Not hardly jeffry55, it's rarely green around here. I'm folding for my own team, and we're working hard to overtake Team TR but we've got...

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. I have an old X2 6000+ and it did not re...

Krogoth wrote:

In my experience, GPU F@H Client is rather flaky. It works for a while, but a buffer overload kills the application and you have to reset it. It is slightly annoying, not I would not recommend using the GPU client for headless boxes.

I'm running 9 of them, 7 in headless boxes with little problems.

Has anybody been experiencing GPU crashes in Windows 7 64bit? My video card is 9800GTX and the driver is current. The CPU clients are working just fine and my computer has been up for at least 24 hours now. I am certain it is not overheating and is not overclocked. My experience is that the console...

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 tel...

New kernel will support more hardware (especially more recent motherboard onboard ethernet controllers), it's not really a performance change. The VM time offset of 0 should help new installs in a VM work with the correct time zone to make monitoring in FAHMon (or similar) a lot easier - may not ha...

Yesterday I noticed a new VM Appliance out 8 November 09: Updgard to kernel 2.6.30.1 and add VM time offset of 0. I loaded it up on a dual core machine and got it folding with no problem. I don't see any change or difference in performance and wondered what the new version should by us? I was also w...