How to install Ubuntu(64 bit) and SMP client

[cuog]

Originally Posted by chiefish

It worked perfect for me, once i started using a conroe core instead of my p4d945. It might be worth mentioning that you can only run this stuff on either native 64 bit operating system with 64 bit hardware,, or on a core that supports virtualization with 64 bit hardware from within windows 32 bit.

Glad it could help
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Done

[KillerBeagle]

Something to add at the end: how to monitor the SMP FAH client. (or does this need its own separate topic?)

The simplest method is looking at the FAHlog.txt file. If you are running fah5 manually in a terminal window, you can see the output already, just like running the standard client manually. If you are using finstall to run, you can run the following command in a terminal window to watch the log:

tail -s 60 -f FAHlog.txt

which will look at the end of the log file and update every 60 seconds. This is how I monitor the SMP client running under VMWare on my primary WIndows box.

Unfortunately none of the current monitoring programs fully handle SMP, because the SMP client's files and log format are slightly different. FahMon 2.1.5 is what I use, because it will at least monitor the percentage completion, and let you look at the log files. With FahMon, I run it on a Windows box, and set up Samba shares of all the fah folders on different native Linux boxes. Unfortunately I haven't gotten this to work on Ubuntu, which I'm not as familiar with; it works fine on Red Hat. Maybe cuog can give some instructions for Samba shares under Ubuntu.

There is no program at the moment that will calculate ppd for you automatically. I just look at the log, figure the approximate time for 1%. Then you take (WU points)*(24*60minutes)/(time for 1% in minutes) to get ppd.

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[cuog]

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Awesome glad I can help,

my name was spelled wrong its cuog not coug

[HotRod]

Originally Posted by cuog

Awesome glad I can help,

my name was spelled wrong its cuog not coug

Oppppps..........typo.

[Prototype]

Looks good, only one suggestion:

If you have installed the 32 bit libraries and are still getting a permission error when trying to run the fah5 file then try running "sudo chmod 777 fah5"

I would change the permission mode to 555 or 755 at best. After all you only need to execute, the write bit is no good.

[cuog]

Its already there last line or two, I will add your suggestion about 555 and 755 after a little testing to make sure they don't cause issues, but 777 is probably best for ease later on.

[GrandPrixGT300]

tried installing this on the following system:

pd820
ecs p4m800pro-m v2.0
1gb DDR2
SATA drive

Ok so here's the problem, when i first installed it and got to the desktop, the internet worked fine, i downloaded the client, but now the network has stopped working only a few minutes later. Any ideas? Hoping to get this going tonight and getting it installed on atleast one other PD system

thanks in advance


Edit: Well I tried everything to get it to connect, including reinstalling the whole thing to no avail so I'm not sure where to go from here so if anyone have any ideas at all please let me know. Thanks again

[gurusan]

K so I finally got Ubuntu 64bit and the SMP client all up and running on vmware server.

I noticed I still always have about 10% left on each core...I'm just going to fire up a standard console client in XP x64 to use up that extra 20% of processing power.

Is this a good idea or no?

got my rig stable at 1.6vcore running 3.08ghz so it should produce decent ppd...not as good as conroe but it's the best I can do and at this clock I have a solid 40% OC which isn't bad at all for a 4400x2

It's taking pretty much exactly 8 minutes per step on the 3025 protein. Does that sound about right? What are others getting for comparison?

[KillerBeagle]

The time sounds about right. You can always look up your processor on fahinfo.org and try to find a match.

The best way to figure out if adding a standard client is safe or not, is to compare your SMP times before and after adding the client. Also, make sure to run it at idle priority so it doesn't preempt the SMP client.

[napoli3]

Originally Posted by gurusan

K so I finally got Ubuntu 64bit and the SMP client all up and running on vmware server.

I noticed I still always have about 10% left on each core...I'm just going to fire up a standard console client in XP x64 to use up that extra 20% of processing power.

Is this a good idea or no?

got my rig stable at 1.6vcore running 3.08ghz so it should produce decent ppd...not as good as conroe but it's the best I can do and at this clock I have a solid 40% OC which isn't bad at all for a 4400x2

It's taking pretty much exactly 8 minutes per step on the 3025 protein. Does that sound about right? What are others getting for comparison?

Both my Optys (165) are just under 8min per step on the 3025 protein running Linux. Both are OC'd with one at 2.85ghz and the other at 2.7ghz. I would say you are doing just fine.

Also nice OC on the 4400!

[gurusan]

thanks...contrary to what most people say, even cheap water (bigwater 745) does wonders.

Once I get a 8800GTX or R600 I'm just going to buy a new block and swap this kit over to the GPU/NB and then build a custom kit for the CPU.

[DSwarP]

Double You Tee Eff?

[KillerBeagle]

It looks like you did "./finstall" instead of "./finstall smp" so now it's running 2 copies of the standard Linux client.

[DSwarP]

No sir, I did ./finstall smp

To try again, should I just delete the folders?

Aside from that, why can't I install the libraries?

[KillerBeagle]

Well maybe the failure message is just from not having the 32-bit libraries - I don't use the finstall method so I don't know what the normal messages look like.

I have seen the apt-get fail just due to temporary network issues. Try again later and see what happens. You could also use the graphical package manager and try downloading them from there.

[DSwarP]

I'll just try again tomorrow, if the libraries don't install then, I'll go about it another way. Still have 2x windows clients going on that rig right now.

[KillerBeagle]

What does Fahlog.txt say? Seems like the folding script is hiding what's really happening.

Maybe try running the command separately for now so you get more info.

./fah5 -local -forceasm -verbosity 9

[DSwarP]

I tried getting the libraries again this morning, still didn't work.

Additional Comment:

Well, I officially give up. I reinstalled the Ubuntu64 virtual machine, and I still cant install the 32 bit libraries. I don't get it.

[Taichan]

did you try using the program build into Ubuntu to install the libs?

the gui system?