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[Gorgon]

39 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

This is on ubuntu server 22.04.

Interesting. Your running the Server variant and a one-month old release. Riding the bleeding edge I see I assume this is on your Threadripper and was done for specific reasons?

 

When I tried running the Server variant on 18.04 I got stuck in dependency hell as by default it runs without X but NVIDIA drivers require portions of X for coolbits support.

 

This implies that F@H might have changed their install script, and hopefully their startup scripts. Which Client version

FAHClient --version

did you install?

[RollinLower]

1 hour ago, Gorgon said:

Interesting. Your running the Server variant and a one-month old release. Riding the bleeding edge I see I assume this is on your Threadripper and was done for specific reasons?

 

When I tried running the Server variant on 18.04 I got stuck in dependency hell as by default it runs without X but NVIDIA drivers require portions of X for coolbits support.

 

This implies that F@H might have changed their install script, and hopefully their startup scripts. Which Client version

FAHClient --version

did you install?

this is on my F@H server, so thats a EPYC 7401P and some Nvidia cards.

I chose 22.04 because we're running a few apps at work that require atleast 20.04, and i want to test them out at home on non-mission critical hardware. i figured if i'm upgrading i might aswell go all the way.

FAH version is 7.4.4.

[Kilrah]

I usually always install the desktop-minimal version and then change the target to multi-user so it doesn't load the graphical environment when running headless, but that way I have fewer dependency issues and the GUI is there and can be turned back on anytime if needed.

[RollinLower]

17 hours ago, Kilrah said:

I usually always install the desktop-minimal version and then change the target to multi-user so it doesn't load the graphical environment when running headless, but that way I have fewer dependency issues and the GUI is there and can be turned back on anytime if needed.

that's pretty smart! if the server version kicks my ass i guess this is the better way to go.

[Fyaz Manknojiya]

I have started folding at home on my gaming laptop and after couple of days my laptop start showing major problem from battery. It get to be repair now, my bad luck. Hope so their is no major repair to do. I love doing this work even I do not know how much we have come accross till now.

 

Regards

[Pezui]

So yesterday was my grandfathers funeral. He never understood the F@H things that I would tell him were being worked on, but he liked to hear about it. He was an awesome person that I really appreciated. While at the funeral I think I finally passed 6B points and I feel like he would have liked that. His passing was not from any of the things we work on, but I at least don't really do it trying to help a specific person anyways. Felt like sharing this today, its been a rough week where normally the milestone weeks are highlights, this one is a lot more muted. 

[RollinLower]

36 minutes ago, Pezui said:

So yesterday was my grandfathers funeral. He never understood the F@H things that I would tell him were being worked on, but he liked to hear about it. He was an awesome person that I really appreciated. While at the funeral I think I finally passed 6B points and I feel like he would have liked that. His passing was not from any of the things we work on, but I at least don't really do it trying to help a specific person anyways. Felt like sharing this today, its been a rough week where normally the milestone weeks are highlights, this one is a lot more muted. 

Sorry for your loss, but at the same time great to hear you had such a close bond with him. That's not something you should ever take for granted!

[IkeaGnome]

Swapping a 1070 for a 3070 did me well!

[jctappel67]

On 4/22/2022 at 5:10 PM, GOTSpectrum said:

-snip-

 

I only did it during the initial few months of craziness. Was using some cloud folding rigs, and forgot to input the team name. Those 150,000 points still haunt me to this day. Think of what might have been...

[LAR_Systems]

Version 2.0 of Folding at Home in the Dark has hit the Chrome Extension Store and is PUBLIC!

Someone needs to let Linus / the LTT writers know that it's ready for the next sleeper PC with the new "Monitor" selector in addition to the LTT RGB Lambo theme.

[Gorgon]

@RollinLower @Kilrah I've been upgrading my systems from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop to 22.04 so I took a look into why

service FAHClient stop

doesn't work. After much mucking about I discovered that the /var/run/fahclient.pid file specified in the init.d script never gets created. Some Google-Fu found this post and adding the suggested change to the init.d script and a

killall FAHClient
systemctl daemon-reload

has fixed the issue.

[Gorgon]

Getting Coolbits Working on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for Fan Control & Graphics and Memory Overclocking

1. Disable Wayland
2. Disable nvidia-modeset
3. Configure X-server
4. Reboot

Note - I am running headless - if you use the desktop on your system this may break it.

sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

uncomment: #WaylandEnable=false

sudo nano /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-kms.conf

change: "options nvidia-drm modeset=1" to "options nvidia-drm modeset=0"

nvidia-xconfig -a --cool-bits=12 --allow-empty-initial-configuration
sudo shutdown -r now

[RollinLower]

4 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Getting Coolbits Working on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for Fan Control & Graphics and Memory Overclocking

1. Disable Wayland
2. Disable nvidia-modeset
3. Configure X-server
4. Reboot

Note - I am running headless - if you use the desktop on your system this may break it.

sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

uncomment: #WaylandEnable=false

sudo nano /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-kms.conf

change: "options nvidia-drm modeset=1" to "options nvidia-drm modeset=0"

nvidia-xconfig -a --cool-bits=12 --allow-empty-initial-configuration
sudo shutdown -r now

you're a wizard! thanks for this one. 

[Kilrah]

On 4/29/2022 at 1:34 AM, jctappel67 said:

I only did it during the initial few months of craziness. Was using some cloud folding rigs, and forgot to input the team name. Those 150,000 points still haunt me to this day. Think of what might have been...

A whopping ~35 minutes of running a 3080

[Gorgon]

43 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

you're a wizard! thanks for this one. 

I don't pretend to know what I'm doing but I'm persistent

 

Apparently there are two issues:

 

1. After 18.04 Ubuntu moved from the X-org to Wayland X Server. (I had already figured that one out)

2. Somewhere about NVidia driver 460 the mode-set switch got flipped which meant X runs as a user rather than root which breaks nvidia-smi access.

 

So I have all my rigs working as before under 18.04. Now I just have to write it all up. First I have to finish the last part which is to upgrade my TrueNAS moving from a SuperMIcro X9-SCL e/w a e3-1240v2 & 16GB DDR3-1600 ECC to an X10-SL7 e/w a e3-1231v3 & 32GB DDR3-1800 ECC. The hard part is having to backup the 12TB Pool first.

[RollinLower]

1 hour ago, Gorgon said:

I don't pretend to know what I'm doing but I'm persistent

 

Apparently there are two issues:

 

1. After 18.04 Ubuntu moved from the X-org to Wayland X Server. (I had already figured that one out)

2. Somewhere about NVidia driver 460 the mode-set switch got flipped which meant X runs as a user rather than root which breaks nvidia-smi access.

 

So I have all my rigs working as before under 18.04. Now I just have to write it all up. First I have to finish the last part which is to upgrade my TrueNAS moving from a SuperMIcro X9-SCL e/w a e3-1240v2 & 16GB DDR3-1600 ECC to an X10-SL7 e/w a e3-1231v3 & 32GB DDR3-1800 ECC. The hard part is having to backup the 12TB Pool first.

Ooh interesting. I put together a truenas box myself yesterday. I have a little buildlog for that one here

i'm still in the process of writing up the software part of the build. You got any must-know tricks up your sleeve I should know? Never worked with a FreeBSD system before.

[jctappel67]

On 4/29/2022 at 3:31 PM, LAR_Systems said:

Version 2.0 of Folding at Home in the Dark has hit the Chrome Extension Store and is PUBLIC!

Someone needs to let Linus / the LTT writers know that it's ready for the next sleeper PC with the new "Monitor" selector in addition to the LTT RGB Lambo theme.

I have a question. How does the "Time of Use Folding" thing work? Does it let me set a time when the rig is not allowed to fold (e.g. from 15:00 to 18:00, when it's hot as balls)?

[LAR_Systems]

2 hours ago, jctappel67 said:

I have a question. How does the "Time of Use Folding" thing work? Does it let me set a time when the rig is not allowed to fold (e.g. from 15:00 to 18:00, when it's hot as balls)?

You set the hours you want to fold between, then it switches to finishing and stop at the end of that folding time window to wrap up work units so you don’t loose return bonuses paused.

 

so in your case you would want folding to start at 18:00 and stop at 15:00 which would be the next day.  Then I would recommend based on the time your gear takes to complete a work unit set it a bit earlier like 13-14:00 to give your system time to finish work units.

 

Last, the timer only works if the extension window is open and running, you close the browser window or tab the script can’t run, so that’s important.

 

 

 

[jctappel67]

1 hour ago, LAR_Systems said:

You set the hours you want to fold between, then it switches to finishing and stop at the end of that folding time window to wrap up work units so you don’t loose return bonuses paused.

 

so in your case you would want folding to start at 18:00 and stop at 15:00 which would be the next day.  Then I would recommend based on the time your gear takes to complete a work unit set it a bit earlier like 13-14:00 to give your system time to finish work units.

 

Last, the timer only works if the extension window is open and running, you close the browser window or tab the script can’t run, so that’s important.

 

 

 

That's so cool! Something I've wanted for a hot minute now, but never made the time to learn how. Thanks for making such an easy-to-use tool!

 

[CT854]

Took a break from the forums to handle some IRL stuff and coming back, I sorta realize I've felt like I've been missing a home. I don't know anyone here super well but Folding seems to have a real chill, cool community and the forums at large gave me a sanctuary to be.

 

So, in celebration, I'm folding again for a bit.   Maybe I'll even pick up a few GPUs if people start panic selling their 30 series cards for whatever reason.

[dogwitch]

6 hours ago, CT854 said:

Took a break from the forums to handle some IRL stuff and coming back, I sorta realize I've felt like I've been missing a home. I don't know anyone here super well but Folding seems to have a real chill, cool community and the forums at large gave me a sanctuary to be.

 

So, in celebration, I'm folding again for a bit.   Maybe I'll even pick up a few GPUs if people start panic selling their 30 series cards for whatever reason.

we general do. i did a small bit of folding. to test out a re wired/config  home network.

[Captainmarino]

On 4/29/2022 at 4:31 PM, LAR_Systems said:

Version 2.0 of Folding at Home in the Dark has hit the Chrome Extension Store and is PUBLIC!

Someone needs to let Linus / the LTT writers know that it's ready for the next sleeper PC with the new "Monitor" selector in addition to the LTT RGB Lambo theme.

Those are PHENOMENAL!!! Absolutely fantastic work, my friend.

[Captainmarino]

 

Both PPD and WUPD have been varying quite a bit over the past couple of weeks so I wonder which is going to happen first?

 

Who's it going to be? 1B points or 10k WU?

[RollinLower]

@Gorgon have you seen this on your 22.04 install? i seem to be making a lot less PPD now. 

[Gorgon]

6 hours ago, RollinLower said:

@Gorgon have you seen this on your 22.04 install? i seem to be making a lot less PPD now.

I can't really tell as I've also moved a bunch of GPUs over to BOINC but it does seem the PPDs are down for the GPUs. It might be the latest NVidia driver but I'm putting it down to a bunch of WUs that perform poorly. Let me check HfM ...

 

The whole Team's down for the last week or so from ~910MPPD to ~850MPPD so I expect it's just the current crop of WUs don't provide much points - but let's keep an eye on it.

 

My HfM shows the current crop of running WUs performing about the same as before on 18.04 adjusting for trimming power levels from 170 to 125W on the 2070 Supers