Daily Update.

[Arcturius]

Originally Posted by Groth

These big protein like memory bandwidth. An old PC100 using box has slowed 50% or more from the last protein; my top cruncher (with PC3200) has only dropped ~20%.

That's interesting; I thought I had heard before that df was *relatively* indifferent to memory bandwidth.

Things do seem to be picking up for me at least--over the last 2h11m, my machine is now averaging 7.84 gens/hour; versus the running average of 6.6 gens/hour between gen 7 and gen 143(current)...so that's looking much more like the 20% drop that was expected.

[satanicoo]

Originally Posted by ftjandra

Satanico, after exactly 72 hours, my A64 3000+ bufferd up 602 generations. Keep in mind though that this machine is not only dedicated to folding.

--Ferdi

Could you tell me what you normally do with it? Something heavy on processor?

Done the same now, with this new protein wich, acording to groth, is a bit slower.
NF7 +xp2500 @2410 MHZ: 526
A7m266 + 2*2800 @ 2246: 446
502

This was in 75 hours +-.

The NF7 one is a web server (low load), the other dual processor one is my main rig
(normally browsing, some cs, some diablo 2).


One thing i noted, these 3 days: my output is as low as 50k/day.

Before i had these ones and 3 P1000.
Now, only 3 P1000.

So the 3 P1000 make 50k? WTF? They are WAY weak for this i think?


EDIT: WOOPS sorry, had 2 of my P1000 "stuffing" ( ) also.
ONE HAD 218 buffereds, the other 225.

[ftjandra]

Originally Posted by satanicoo

Could you tell me what you normally do with it? Something heavy on processor?

Nothing really heavy on the processor. The most intensive was probably some Photoshop editing, but I didn't do much during those three days.

--Ferdi

[Blackeagle]

My systems keep reporting a error and the need to shut down. Have lost a lot of output.

Anyone else having this problem?

4 times so far sence the change in protien.

[satanicoo]

Mines dont give a error. i check them and they are just not running.
I must keep checking them, almoust once a day one stops.

[jaydee]

All 4 of mine have run flawlessly. :shrug:

[Arcturius]

If mine die, they die quietly. I have the NT service setup to automagically restart the service when it dies anyway, so I wouldn't notice. :shrug:
When I get around to getting my devel box back up, I'll let you know if the process dies on there...

[jaydee]

We been slaking off lately or what? :shrug:

[MadHacker]

Originally Posted by jaydee116

We been slaking off lately or what? :shrug:

Guilty as charge.
although the program only works on idle cycles.
it still uses memory bandwidth. and i was finding some programs didn't perform as quickly...
what is the point of overclocking to get that extra little bit out of the machine when you have a program taking away that extra little bit. :shrug:

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by MadHacker

Guilty as charge.
although the program only works on idle cycles.
it still uses memory bandwidth. and i was finding some programs didn't perform as quickly...
what is the point of overclocking to get that extra little bit out of the machine when you have a program taking away that extra little bit. :shrug:

Errr, whats the point of overclocking to get more power and it not be used by a program? :shrug:

[MadHacker]

Originally Posted by jaydee116

Errr, whats the point of overclocking to get more power and it not be used by a program? :shrug:

what is the point of having a fast machine when you want to play a large clip 720p (1280x720 24fps) and it lags because the folding is taking memory bandwidth. after shutting down folding it played fine.
I do a lot of video compression... sizes as high as 1080i(1920x1080 30fps)
got me thinking about other applications that is getting slowed down due to memory bandwidth.

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by MadHacker

what is the point of having a fast machine when you want to play a large clip 720p (1280x720 24fps) and it lags because the folding is taking memory bandwidth. after shutting down folding it played fine.
I do a lot of video compression... sizes as high as 1080i(1920x1080 30fps)
got me thinking about other applications that is getting slowed down due to memory bandwidth.

LOL, what do you want? A program that doesn't use any resources? How would it get anything done? Just don't run folding on that comp. What happened the the other comps you had?

[MadHacker]

Originally Posted by jaydee116

LOL, what do you want? A program that doesn't use any resources? How would it get anything done? Just don't run folding on that comp. What happened the the other comps you had?

one was my wife's...
she beleived it was causing her machine to crash....
so i removed...
it was still crashing....
after a windows reinstall... it works pretty stable... IE still crashes though
never put it back on...
one was my son's machine... curently disconected from the net...(he is only 4)
the last one was my step daugters machine... she has so much stuff loading right now that it takes 5 min just to boot her computer...(dual 550).
my server is curently down... have to figure away around the win2003server 30 day activation crap.
add on top of that.. by the time i get the kids to bed (4yr & 14month) .. i'm ready to die.... no time no energy...
i have my current project (watercooled) that has been sitting on the shelf for 3 weeks because i don't have the time to work on it..
maybe this weekend... maybe

[ftjandra]

Originally Posted by jaydee116

We been slaking off lately or what? :shrug:

I've got a lot of stuff buffered that I'll upload hopefully this weekend, if I have time. I am amazed how fast this new dual p3 1133MHz is running (serverworks chipset).

--Ferdi

[Boli]

My main machines GFX card died... and I can't OC the chip as altering the voltages causes the temp. PCI Graphics card not to work *shrugs*.... My Dad had to remove the service from his 2000+ as it cuased major hangups with his burning.

So I'm dfown to 1x1800+, and 1x2000+ roughly half my output... So YES I am "slacking".

~ Boli

[Blackeagle]

Originally Posted by jaydee116

Errr, whats the point of overclocking to get more power and it not be used by a program? :shrug:

LOL! ! Good one JD!

Mine hasn't hung in several days now, (fingers crossed).

[satanicoo]

Originally Posted by Arcturius

I have the NT service setup to automagically restart the service when it dies anyway, so I wouldn't notice. :shrug:

A guy learn everiday...

How do you do that?

[iggiebee]

Originally Posted by satanicoo

A guy learn everiday...

How do you do that?

Easy as pie. If using Windows XP:

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Services and Applications -> Services

Right click on the Distributed Folding service, Select Properties, Click on the Recovery tab. There you will find various options to automatically restart the service when it fails.

Beware, that setting an automatic restart could easily cause an infinite loop of stopping/starting cycles if the application has bugs.

[satanicoo]

Thanks. Maybe now it will keep me a bit away from insanity.

Another thing:
-If anione here know how to make a program that will do something if it detects that a x program opened, please pm me. I need a software and really dont want to say here more.

[Arcturius]

I thought I had the service configured to restart, but I didn't--I apparently forgot to enable that on this install of XP. Mine must be stable.

[Groth]

Go ftjandra! Nice to see that I'm not the only one running the backend-beta. I certainly couldn't have taken down OCworkbench or Asylum Research on my own.

(Before anyyone gets too excited, this beta is just a test of the new backend/gen-verification scheme. The points from it don't count for the regular total. Plus it's really buggy.)

[imagex]

Arcturius I see you trying to sneak by, I'll have to kick it up a notch to give ya a run for your money,

[ftjandra]

Originally Posted by Groth

Go ftjandra! Nice to see that I'm not the only one running the backend-beta. I certainly couldn't have taken down OCworkbench or Asylum Research on my one.

(Before anyyone gets too excited, this beta is just a test of the new backend/gen-verification scheme. The points from it don't count for the regular total. Plus it's really buggy.)

It actually hasn't been buggy for me at all. I am uploading my last results right now before going back to the regular client (gotta keep satanicco away )

--Ferdi

[Arcturius]

*shneaky shneaky*

It should be interesting, though. I plan on getting a 4-way Xeon 700 any day now (replacement devel machine, have to 'stress test' it, having come off eBay and all... ), and there will soon be some more 2-way HT Xeons at work that need 'breaking in'. 8-D

[ftjandra]

Actually, on second thaught, I will keep two of my machines on the beta client, just so we get first place even though it doesn't count for anything...

--Ferdi