notfred wrote:There's no easy way to set bigadv on my diskless stuff currently, you would need to run with the shell prompt enabled, stop the current client and restart with -bigadv by hand. I thought Stanford were pulling the bigadv WUs from the Linux boxes and giving them to WIndows these days anyway.
Sorry I haven't replied sooner. As
notfred points out, you can't run the -bigadv work units in Linux for the time being. I forgot about the change, which is supposed to be temporary while they fix a bug, but even so you should still be able to get better output using
notfred's software. It should automatically detect that you've got multiple cores and automatically run using the -smp switch. You choose the number of cores it uses per instance in the setup page before downloading his software.
What you put in the previous post looks like the init file, which isn't the config file I meant. The file you want to edit requires you to do some things to get to and change it.
You have to have enabled a login shell. Then you login as the username "root", and "cd" to "/etc/folding". And then it varies depending on your setup. If you have a quad running one instance of folding on all 4 cores, you'll see a directory under there by using the list command, "ls", called "1". Change your location to that directory by typing "cd 1" and then you should be where you need to be. If you have a 6 core machine, I'm not sure what
notfred's will do, but it may have an instance for 4 cores and one for the remaining 2. Assumedly, the latter will be located under /etc/folding/2. If that's the case, I think it would make killing the running folding processes a bit more complicated.
Anyway, you have to stop the folding client before you edit the client.cfg file (which is the config file I meant for you to edit in my prior post), otherwise the folding client will replace what you've changed the next time it updates the file with the current count of WU's completed. To do that you type "killall fah6", and then you can edit the client.cfg file. A problem is, I don't know how to make it easy for you to edit, but hopefully someone else here recalls the best editors available for you. The one I use is "vi", but it's old and was originally from back in the days when low bandwidth terminal connections to Unix machines were common, and therefore uses one letter commands and in general is a bit of a pain to pick up when easier options are available. I
think "nano" may be available, and it's fairly commonly recommended as an editor for new *nix users, but I'm not sure. Anyway, under the [settings] heading, at the bottom of the listed options you can add the line "extra_parms=-verbosity 9". You can also add more than one parameter, each separated by a space.
Until
notfred tells us how it divides things up, and hopefully the best way to stop the folding clients individually, I'd leave your 6 core 1055 alone for the time being.
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