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bollix47 wrote:@Flying Fox .... my thoughts re creating a text file with the current client names would not involve having to know future names. The idea was that if a new client came out the user could change the name in the text file and notfred's kernel would read that file and re-create the links accordingly before downloading the core. It was just a thought ......
Optimum1a wrote:I'm also seeing the "not backing up message", but I'm able to do a backup tar from the web interface. What's the procedure for restoring from that tar? Can we just untar it to the USB stick and start again?
Flying Fox wrote:Optimum1a wrote:I'm also seeing the "not backing up message", but I'm able to do a backup tar from the web interface. What's the procedure for restoring from that tar? Can we just untar it to the USB stick and start again?
I would think so, but that was one reason why I set up TFTP in the first place instead of untaring it to a USB disk. I just have to manage the files on the TFTP server and it will deal with all that stuff.
I had this running on two machines with the .iso and fold64.vbx in the VMPlayer folder. On one machine all was well and on the second all was running fine except that for some reason it seemed to be reading the system clock about 3.5x faster than reality. For instance, it entered a 15-minute checkpoint about every 4 minutes. At first I just thought it was FahMon orienting itself until some time went by and it was still happening, yet the other machine was reporting correctly.
At just under a day of this and on Frame 71 of a 2653 it reported itself as being past the deadline (due to the steroids clock) and deleted the WU and tried to get another.
I'll bet you have an AMD cpu. There a CPU driver that fixes the crazy clock.
...you're absolutely right. Surprisingly, there's nothing on the AMD site other than the standard clock utilities, nothing in the forums that is showing up in a search. Is there anyone that's familiar with this that can point me? I would have thought a driver would probably be on the AMD site. Funny it's affecting the X2 4200+ and not the X2 4000+...
theMASS wrote:The 2nd quote answered it, by "driver" the poster meant the Dual Core Optimizer. They obviously haven't been on TR! I have been talking about this problem and the X2's for almost a year (hint: search for my posts and ("Audacity" or "ping"))!A member on the F@H forum posted the following issue:I had this running on two machines with the .iso and fold64.vbx in the VMPlayer folder. On one machine all was well and on the second all was running fine except that for some reason it seemed to be reading the system clock about 3.5x faster than reality. For instance, it entered a 15-minute checkpoint about every 4 minutes. At first I just thought it was FahMon orienting itself until some time went by and it was still happening, yet the other machine was reporting correctly.
At just under a day of this and on Frame 71 of a 2653 it reported itself as being past the deadline (due to the steroids clock) and deleted the WU and tried to get another.I'll bet you have an AMD cpu. There a CPU driver that fixes the crazy clock....you're absolutely right. Surprisingly, there's nothing on the AMD site other than the standard clock utilities, nothing in the forums that is showing up in a search. Is there anyone that's familiar with this that can point me? I would have thought a driver would probably be on the AMD site. Funny it's affecting the X2 4200+ and not the X2 4000+...
Anyone have any advice?
He has tried running with VMWare Server, updated BIOS, and disabled Powernow and CoolnQuiet...
Flying Fox wrote:theMASS wrote:The 2nd quote answered it, by "driver" the poster meant the Dual Core Optimizer. They obviously haven't been on TR! I have been talking about this problem and the X2's for almost a year (hint: search for my posts and ("Audacity" or "ping"))!A member on the F@H forum posted the following issue:I had this running on two machines with the .iso and fold64.vbx in the VMPlayer folder. On one machine all was well and on the second all was running fine except that for some reason it seemed to be reading the system clock about 3.5x faster than reality. For instance, it entered a 15-minute checkpoint about every 4 minutes. At first I just thought it was FahMon orienting itself until some time went by and it was still happening, yet the other machine was reporting correctly.
At just under a day of this and on Frame 71 of a 2653 it reported itself as being past the deadline (due to the steroids clock) and deleted the WU and tried to get another.I'll bet you have an AMD cpu. There a CPU driver that fixes the crazy clock....you're absolutely right. Surprisingly, there's nothing on the AMD site other than the standard clock utilities, nothing in the forums that is showing up in a search. Is there anyone that's familiar with this that can point me? I would have thought a driver would probably be on the AMD site. Funny it's affecting the X2 4200+ and not the X2 4000+...
Anyone have any advice?
He has tried running with VMWare Server, updated BIOS, and disabled Powernow and CoolnQuiet...
theMASS wrote:Flying Fox wrote:theMASS wrote:The 2nd quote answered it, by "driver" the poster meant the Dual Core Optimizer. They obviously haven't been on TR! I have been talking about this problem and the X2's for almost a year (hint: search for my posts and ("Audacity" or "ping"))!...
He has tried running with VMWare Server, updated BIOS, and disabled Powernow and CoolnQuiet...
Thanks! This sounds like what he needs. Guess he didn't look too hard on the AMD site
EllisD wrote:I run the diskless ISO inside a VM.I have tried the VMware+Linux route, but had nothing but troubles and lost my cool, so went looking for alternatives. Needless to say, this filled the void. I am only really on my PC for about 6 hours a day, and its folding the rest of the time, so this is the perfect solution that offers the best results i have seen. On my main rig, it does about 18mins per % which is leaps and bounds ahead of the winSMP client as well as the VMware route. It almost matches my server that puts out 16.5mins per WU within 64bit ubuntu.
RAH wrote:That or you can set up TFTP backup.Since they are inexpensive, would putting usb sticks in them stop this?
RAH wrote:I thought it had that. I'm running off my Windows server, using the tftpd32.
There are tons of backup folders, but if they get restarted, they start from zero.
RAH wrote:I have been getting the "Hard drive image is corrupted, not backing up" message also.
Doesn't seem to be much of a problem, except when the machines get restarted. They
go back to zero. Since I don't shut them down, no big deal, usually. Last night had a
power outage. All went back to zero.
Since they are inexpensive, would putting usb sticks in them stop this?
If so, would I need to set the sticks up with the folding on them before hand? Or just blank formatted ones.
Flying Fox wrote:RAH wrote:I thought it had that. I'm running off my Windows server, using the tftpd32.
There are tons of backup folders, but if they get restarted, they start from zero.
Is your tftpd32 set up properly? With it taking over DHCP and not your router, etc.?
I didn't have tftpd32, but Win2K's built-in one. It works.
bj0ng0 wrote:Hi, first i would like to say thanks to notfred for an easy way to pxe boot tons of clients
but after i rebooted the clients, i can see on the main page on the only dualcore in my farm, "it says "Found 2 processors"" but it only has one instance, with prior version i had two, weird...