F@H January TeAm record run?

mmonnin03 · Jan 11, 2025

Did you use force-depends?

Terminal installation for Debian / Mint / Ubuntu – Folding@home

foldingathome.org

Their guide has instructions for an older client. I updated the #s to the latest version for the PC I build since last year.

Markfw · Jan 11, 2025

This is what I get

mmonnin03 · Jan 11, 2025

8.3.18 is the latest version. Your file names downloaded do not match the file attempting to install. If its a remote PC, the only program needed is the client which can be controlled from from a main desktop fahcontrol

Code:

wget https://download.foldingathome.org/releases/public/fah-client/debian-10-64bit/release/fah-client_8.3.18_amd64.deb

Markfw · Jan 11, 2025

mmonnin03 said:
8.3.18 is the latest version. Your file names downloaded do not match the file attempting to install. If its a remote PC, the only program needed is the client which can be controlled from from a main desktop fahcontrol

Code:

wget https://download.foldingathome.org/releases/public/fah-client/debian-10-64bit/release/fah-client_8.3.18_amd64.deb

I am running v8 now on that box, I gave up on v7, but how to I fix it to allow "remote access" as fahcontrol says ??

mmonnin03 · Jan 11, 2025

You can edit the config.xml file in the /etc/fahclient folder with a copy from another PC. Once connected the slot can be adjusted if the PCI slot # is different. A client restart is probably needed after maybe?

Markfw · Jan 11, 2025

mmonnin03 said:
You can edit the config.xml file in the /etc/fahclient folder with a copy from another PC. Once connected the slot can be adjusted if the PCI slot # is different. A client restart is probably needed after maybe?

found another config.xml


<allow v='127.0.0.1,192.168.1.1-192.168.1.255'/>


<proxy v=':8080'/>


<command-allow-no-pass v='127.0.0.1,192.168.1.1-192.168.1.255'/>

Was the appropriate area, edited, then rebooted (I could not figure out how to restart the service)

No joy.....

Markfw · Jan 11, 2025

Here is the entire config on 9654 linux box. for some reason, I see the above added to the config.xml, but when I pasted into email, it lost the above !!

<config>

<fold-anon v='true'/>


<gpu v='false'/>


<power v='FULL'/>


<passkey v='*******************************'/>
<team v='198'/>
<user v='Mark_F_Williams'/>


<slot id='0' type='CPU'>
<paused v='true'/>
</slot>
</config>

Markfw · Jan 11, 2025

so... its not there. Everytime I reboot it wipes out the changes I make !

Edit: I did it one more time, reboot, its now in config.xml, but again, no joy.

Skillz · Jan 11, 2025

You can NOT control a V8.x client with any V7.x versions. They are NOT backwards compatible between them.

Like I told you in Discord. You need to install V8 on ALL your clients so you can control all of them using the web interface.\

Markfw · Jan 11, 2025

Skillz said:
You can NOT control a V8.x client with any V7.x versions. They are NOT backwards compatible between them.

Like I told you in Discord. You need to install V8 on ALL your clients so you can control all of them using the web interface.\

View attachment 114779

well, thanks for that. More information than I got in discord while I was there. screw V8.

StefanR5R · Jan 12, 2025

mmonnin03 said:
Configs are automatically backed up at /var/lib/fahclient/configs

I know. But are they still there if a deinstallation is performed? And since the user does not explicitly control when these copies are created, he does not explicitly control the exact state that is written to these copies.

Markfw said:
Was the appropriate area, edited, then rebooted (I could not figure out how to restart the service)

No joy.....

Markfw said:
Here is the entire config on 9654 linux box. for some reason, I see the above added to the config.xml, but when I pasted into email, it lost the above !!

It is safer, if not necessary, to shut down the client before you edit config.xml.

If you edit the config file while the client is still running, the client would have to monitor the file for changes and re-read when necessary, otherwise it would overwrite it with outdated content eventually. (There are multiple occasions at which the client rewrites the config file.) Maybe it normally does the monitoring and reading, or maybe it doesn't; I don't know. But after something went seriously wrong with the client, it's safer to assume that the client remains unaware of external changes to config.xml. Hence first bring the client down, then edit config.xml.

Note that shutdown sometimes takes very long. Sometimes it doesn't succeed, then I kill the FAHClient processes manually.

StefanR5R · Jan 12, 2025

Some commands, to be executed locally on the host on which the Folding@Home client is running.

Start and stop the FAHClient service

service FAHClient status
Query what the system is knowing of the state of the F@H client service.

sudo service FAHClient start
Start the service, obviously.

sudo service FAHClient stop
Tell the service to shut down, pretty please.

pgrep -l 'FAHClient|FAHCore|FahCore'
Look up whether there is still a client or/and core process around. Specify -a instead of -l if you want to see the entire commandline of these processes.

sudo pkill 'FAHClient|FAHCore|FahCore'
If the client keeps running even though you told the service to be stopped, send SIGTERM to the client and any still running fahcorewrapper and fahcore. Only to be done in emergencies.

sudo pkill -9 'FAHClient|FAHCore|FahCore'
If SIGTERM wasn't enough, send SIGKILL which is guaranteed to end any affected process. Only for emergencies because this will likely leave /var/lib/fahclient/work/ in a bad state. (But a full system reboot may leave this in a bad state too, as the system will first try to shut down remaining services gently, then will shut down them forcibly, same as [p]kill -9.)

Configure autostart of the FAHClient service

sudo systemctl enable FAHClient
Tell the system that the FAHClient service shall be started at boot. Personally, I don't do that, as mentioned.

sudo systemctl disable FAHClient
Tell the system that the FAHClient service shall *not* be started at boot.

Monitoring, slot configuration and control, and more

nvidia-smi dmon -d 30
Only for Nvidia GPUs, evidently. Periodically show GPU power, temperature, shader utilization, and more. 30 means monitoring intervals of 30 seconds. Quit with [Ctrl][c].

tail -F /var/lib/fahclient/log.txt
Monitor the client log. Quit with [Ctrl][c].

See thread "Folding@home: FAHClient config & control manual page" for much more.

IEC · Jan 14, 2025

Brought my final two rigs online. 5700X/Radeon VII under Bitspower waterblock and a Epyc 4564P aircooled CPU-only rig are operational within the past 24 hours.

RTX 4080 Super, 2x RTX 2070 have been online pretty much since Jan 1. The only other GPU I have lying around is a Radeon 290 but not worth folding I think.

Endgame124 · Jan 14, 2025

A 290 sounds better than the dual Radeon 250X I’ve got but haven't turned on yet.

Endgame124 · Jan 15, 2025

Half Way through the month stats! We are about 2B points behind where we need to be to break the record, however the 5 team F@H competition could possibly be where we add a bunch of points, just like last year.

Daily January Peak (1/9/2025):
902,886,501

Week Peak (Week of 1/5/25 to 1/12/25):
5,733,330,395

Peak month active Users (1/6/2025):
64

Current team peaks:
Daily Peak (1/25/2024):
1,666,901,932 points

Week Peak (week of 1/21/24)
7,654,446,4125 points

Monthly Peak (Month of Jan 2024)
26,898,347,599 points

Peak month active Users (1/23/2024):
83
Peak Active Users (April 19th, 2020):
1481

StefanR5R · Jan 15, 2025

We have got 11,478 M points for January 2025 so far.
During January 1...16 in 2024, we made 11,420 or 11,430 M points, apparently.

Markfw · Jan 15, 2025

I might do better if windows would stop re-booting all my damn boxes. I purposely did not try to activate them, as some said it won't update until you activate. Well thats not true.

And its not the boxes rebooting due to problems, I get windows prompts. This time it wanted to activate backups. And Genoa boxes don't reboot due to instability, 4 of them were Genoas !

StefanR5R · Jan 15, 2025

January points, from EOC's 01.15.25 12pm CST update:

... 11,569,987,851 ...... Team AnandTech
..... 1,054,469,972 ...... 10esseetony
.......... 35,702,991 ...... [TA]Assimilator1
........ 432,594,953 ...... biodoc
........ 503,181,662 ...... cellarnoise2
........ 115,576,916 ...... Cliff_Taylor
..... 1,998,933,063 ...... crashtech
.......... 79,256,798 ...... Daniel_Trudeau
........ 131,459,060 ...... drnickriviera
........ 607,933,566 ...... Endgame124
.......... 87,548,453 ...... Familyman_19
.......... 49,884,703 ...... fhonyotski
.......... 95,289,560 ...... Hostile
........ 315,741,378 ...... IEC
........ 135,719,009 ...... Ken_g6
.......... 80,001,320 ...... King_of_Efland
..... 2,437,481,051 ...... Mark_F_Williams
........ 488,915,547 ...... mmonnin
..... 1,697,248,637 ...... Pokey_TA
.......... 72,109,992 ...... spaghettiJunction
........ 805,499,365 ...... xii5ku
................................... and *many* more contributors

I am lazy and copy+pasted only the figures from twenty TeAm mates with high 24h average. But shouts to all who were chipping in so far. Even if it was perhaps just for a couple of days or so when you could set aside some computer time for the purpose, you push the TeAm closer to *maybe* make another record F@H month!

Endgame124 · Jan 15, 2025

I just bumped up my 3080ti to a power limit of 110%. It won't yield much extra PPD, but it was getting cold in my basement and it would add more PPD than trying to fold on Raspberry Pis.

IEC · Jan 15, 2025

Looks like my UPS shut down for some reason this morning taking out my internet meaning 9+ hours of no production. Oh well, manually bringing rigs back online.

Pokey · Jan 15, 2025

It would appear we have picked up some additional Folders. We were, if I recall 50-something on the 1st and now 60+.

Endgame124 · Jan 16, 2025

Pokey said:
It would appear we have picked up some additional Folders. We were, if I recall 50-something on the 1st and now 60+.

We started with, I believe, 56 active on 12/29. Hopefully we pickup a few more by the time the 5 team contest rolls around.

In2Photos · Jan 16, 2025

For some reason I had a work unit that showed "Update Core" on the status for over 12 hours. It's going now. Don't think I have had that happen before.

Markfw · Jan 16, 2025

I just got my electric bill $1150 !! After the PG race that ends on the 23rd, all my stats are going in the toilet !

Endgame124 · Jan 22, 2025

This will likely be my last update before the F@H challenge. Peaks are unchanged from last week, and we are about 10B points away from topping Jan 2024. Will we break the record? Who knows, but it will be fun to find out!

Below are the current peak statistics

Daily January Peak (1/9/2025):
902,886,501

Week Peak (Week of 1/5/25 to 1/12/25):
5,733,330,395

Peak month active Users (1/6/2025):
64

Current team peaks:
Daily Peak (1/25/2024):
1,666,901,932 points

Week Peak (week of 1/21/24)
7,654,446,4125 points

Monthly Peak (Month of Jan 2024)
26,898,347,599 points

Peak month active Users (1/23/2024):
83
Peak Active Users (April 19th, 2020):
1481

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