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I'm back, and some questions

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Gawd
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So after a hiatus of... longer than I care to think about, I'm back and folding again. It started with a borked gpu, and ended with telling my roommate to stop bloody shutting my computer off at night, but I think I've finally got a stable box again.

Part 2:
I'm running linux now, as I need it for one of my classes. That's great for cpu folding and all, but it pains me to see the gtx460s sitting idle. Has anyone had any recent luck with gpu3 and wine? Suggestions for where to start if not? I'm willing to get my hands dirty.

It's good to be back =)
 
Wine is fairly strait forward from my understanding. (Never did it myself)

What CPU you have? What config do yu have on the CPU folding?

Welcome back!
 
i7 920, running -bigadv with -smp 8 under linux mint (liquorix kernel)
Wine itself was easy to get running
The gpu client and cuda libs under wine... not as much
I found a foldingforum thread on the topic, though, so I'll see what that turns up.
 
Yeah, that's the one I found. I'm going to try their recommended (read: last tested) version of the driver tomorrow, but right now all I'm getting is segfaults and error codes.
 
Is that a driver that supports the 460's ? Welcome back as well, your a ways back from me now IIRC

Lord_of_Doors said:
Yeah, that's the one I found. I'm going to try their recommended (read: last tested) version of the driver tomorrow, but right now all I'm getting is segfaults and error codes.
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It's a 253.x, so it should be new enough... I'm running the latest linux beta driver right now, which is significantly newer. And yes, I am *quite* a ways behind you.
 
We are back in business. Both gpus crunching under wine (as of about a minute ago; no tpf data yet, but I suspect a significant hit). CPU doing -bigadv again, so you won't hear from that for a couple days yet. Can anyone fill me in as to whether there's more to a single-socket box under linux than just running the client with the BFS scheduler? Wrappers or anything?

Update: I really hope these pick up a little bit... first frame was an 8-min tpf. That seems high for a 460 at 725mhz, even with a wine penalty. Still waiting on cpu tpfs, but picked up a 6900.
 
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The only thing to verify is that CPU load is pushing 100%. The GPUs are wildcards, and beyond my knowledge. You may want to play with something to lock the GPUs to a single core, although others will know more than i about the best way to run GPU + CPU.
 
CPU load is all as it should be. Seems like no matter what "-gpu x" flag I specify, all clients end up on gpu 0, which obviously results in slow frames and ridiculous temps. Still looking for a good solution to that.
 
Now that I'm (briefly) back to windows, my gtx460s only seem to be worth about 6k ppd at 850mhz core... am I doing something wrong, or are there some new extra-chewy units I missed out on in the last month or two?
 
You are using GPU 3 right ?

Lord_of_Doors said:
Now that I'm (briefly) back to windows, my gtx460s only seem to be worth about 6k ppd at 850mhz core... am I doing something wrong, or are there some new extra-chewy units I missed out on in the last month or two?
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Is CPU priority set to high on the gpu clients?
 
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