Folding Forum

It appears that every time I reboot my debian 12.9 bookworm rig with a new kernel, "Machine ID" changes, which invalidates or suspends any WU in progress. Probably they get mothballed indefinitely. Log shows errors for a WU in progress, how it "does not belong" to a certain Clien...

On a debian stable 8.4.9 client for CPU WUs, I've unfortunately managed to have the folding service lose track of a couple units in progress. It looks as though they still exist in the ~folding/work/[unit ID] area, but may have been subtly defeated somehow, by a system irregular shutdown or the like...

Interestingly, the checkbox for anonymous folding was clear in the interface, so I couldn't tell it was giving me guff. When I checked/unchecked it, that's when it started downloading core blobs and enabled WUs to start. Happy now, so I can put the nondebug package back. Thanks much!

Ok thanks, I removed the 5GiB of useless GPU packages to let early missing library errors be benign. Afaict, the permissions of client.db ought to allow writing by UID fah-client, though it's possible the GID setting is wrong; unsure how to check that. Installed the debug build and here's what it sa...

On a debian bookworm & bullseye AMD64 4-core rig, I installed v8.1.18 beta; even though there's only a low-watt incompatible GPU, and I haven't configured for GPU WUs, it appears to require package nvidia-cuda-dev for a library, and ocl-icd-opencl-dev for OpenCL. 5GiB of senseless installed bloa...

Maybe this reply ought to be a new topic. Suggest a subject line? I'm considering installing beta 8.1.x client to see if it's more agreeable. It sounds nearly stable enough to end beta test, maybe at least for nonGPU. Something I should know beforehand though: are there critical incompatibilities be...

Thanks for the info . From what I can gather, v8.1 is maybe more hospitable or efficient.

On debian bullseye and bookworm systems both, I've installed the 7.6.21 fahclient as a systemd service, so it can automatically launch at boot time. So far so good- have racked up loads of points on this config. I've dug through system journal seeing no messages offering clues as to why the explicit...

Care to share your result in case someone else would like to do it? Pardon the delay, but it's embarrassingly trivial: telnet localhost ... finish exit voila: exit brings you back from the telnet to your shell. Incidentally, someone finally built an update of the fahcontrol package that works on de...

How about comparing Odroid benchmarks for an exploratory sense of how viable the idea might be. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=odroid-n2 Do let us all know how your follow through goes. Whether Odroid clusters could work well for folding is out of my depth, however, what about this al...

Thanks for the response. Nothing unfortunate in wiping completed WU files, that was the point of stopping between units, to make a snapshot free of queue ephemera that'd clog the works if restored. Sorting out telnet protocol & FINISH without documentation or working command line help was not so...

Good day all. I'm (mostly) a debian-based (buster 10.2 now) folding work unit donor of years standing, thousands of units returned for substantial total score. Client 7.5.1 runs as a system service ofc, so there need be no interactive login for folding work units to launch and progress once system b...