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ArtemisG3 wrote:

otsep wrote:

I do have F@H on my Intel iMac, maybe it's helping the numbers. I have the Xserves running from 1700 to 0700 every day.

By the way, are you able to allow your Xserves to run full-time on weekends? That is what I am doing with my workstations. My points get a big boost on Sunday and Monday. My crontab looks like this:

0       18      *       *       1,2,3,4,5       cd ~/Library/.FAH/; nohup ./fah5 -local -advmethods -forceasm &
0       7       *       *       1,2,3,4,5       killall fah5

This common sense change has really helped my numbers. Thanks again!

It appears that Team production is settling in at 60,000 per day, but watch out on weekends with Otsep's production around 35-40,000 "normally".


Otsep's average protein is worth 210 points with 180 proteins completed per day.  (some adjustments made, as well as rounding.)

I'm wondering if some proteins are not making the deadlines.

Also, some proteins have been known to crash, and once in a while, Folding must be re-installed.   

So, a logfile inspection once in a while is worthwhile, but on 417 CPUs ???    There's got to be a way to get the last line of each Folding logfile to see what's going on and put it all into 1 file.  Example line:  Xserve Intel CPU # 177 :   28 % complete.

All in all, ggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat.

Nefarious wrote:

Otsep's average protein is worth 210 points with 180 proteins completed per day.  (some adjustments made, as well as rounding.)

Don't forget the first week or so I had problems getting everything installed on ym servers properly.

otsep wrote:

Anything I could do to help output, i'll try.

tail -1 FileNameHere

The command above will give you the last line of the log. Then I'll capture all the outputs from each server and "cat" them together. Is there anything in particular I should be looking for?

I'm not sure if that is the best way to monitor your clients. If f@h crashes, there may or may not be any indication in the FAHlog.txt. One idea is to simply get the modification date of that file. If it is older than a day, you will know that something is not right.

Every now and then, f@h will not be able to connect to stanford's server, and it will write those errors to the log. If it can't connect after so many attempts, f@h will shutdown. Assuming that the connection error is with stanford and not local to your machine, then when f@h launches again on its next cron cycle it will try to connect again, hopefully successfully.

I looked through some logs and figured some stuff out. Most machines never peak above 80% CPU with 120% available. Going along these lines I'm going to have fah running on 1 processor full-time and only on the second during the previous schedule. What do you think?

Last edited by otsep (2007-09-28 12:04 pm)

It's worth a try. Maybe just do that to a couple machines for a day or two before changing all of them.

It'll be interesting to see how your stats increase.

A quick reply at Folding Support Forums confirms Artemis' suspicion.

http://forum.folding-community.org/fpos … tml#200028

ArtemisG3 wrote:

Check this carefully because you may have to tailor it to your own installs.

Nod. I no longer curl from Stanford servers. With proxies and all that jazz in the mix, I decided to keep the files on an internal web server. Basically, my script changes are very similar, and it seems to be working. When I get  the chance, I'll send my new single file install script that I'm using.

Nefarious wrote:

Otsep has 434 processors within the past 7 days.        Nice.

44,000 points per day average !

Nefarious wrote:

OTSEP IN A STATISTICAL DEAD HEAT FOR 10TH PLACE FOR ALL USERS DAILY OUTPUT 7 DAY AVERAGE.

Goals:
1. Be in the top ten donors for daily output.
2. Break into the top 500 in the next few week.

So I'm trying to get more machines into the mix. Hopefully, I should get a big bump in the next week or so.

Last edited by otsep (2007-10-08 7:58 pm)

Otsep has a production dropoff.
(As did I)