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For at least the last 24 hours, my Pi 5's have all experienced delays in getting a new work unit, while my GPU hasn't.

For those of us who just want to help, could a GPU setting be set up in the 8.4 web interface to only download GPU WUs or download any WUs, with a note about reduced points.

Then, the servers could be set up to stop GPUs downloading any non-GPU WUs, if there are less than x of those WUs remaining.

Is there a reason GPU's can't do any WU? Current jobs: Project Type Public Jobs 0xa8 835,833 0xa9 4,356 0x22 1,695 0x23 0 0x24 0 0x26 47 0x27 9,611 There's a heap of FahCore_8 jobs, most likely due to toTow telling everyone you can't fold on a Raspberry Pi, unless it a 5B. My 5B's can do an 18240 WU...

enroscado wrote: ↑Tue Aug 12, 2025 2:09 am Same here, it has been happening for over a week now.

Out of 12 GPUs, 7 have been retrying to download WUs for days with no luck.

Me too (1 of 1), but it's only been a couple of days.

Thanks calxalot For PI OS use: mkdir -p newfah/DEBIAN dpkg -x fah-client_8.4.9_arm64.deb newfah dpkg -e fah-client_8.4.9_arm64.deb newfah/DEBIAN sed -i 's/polkitd-pkla | policykit-1 (<< 0.106), //' newfah/DEBIAN/control dpkg -b newfah fah-client_arm64.deb sudo dpkg -i fah-client_arm64.deb rm -r newf...

I upgraded a Pi 5 from Pi OS Bookworm to Trixie, and now fah-client_8.4.9_arm64.deb can't install due to one it's dependencies: polkitd-pkla | policykit-1 (<< 0.106) root@raspberry-pi-01:~# sudo apt install --install-suggests /root/fah-client_8.4.9_arm64.deb -y Note, selecting 'fah-client' instead o...

Thanks for all your help calxalot. I ended up doing: sudo nano /etc/fah-client/config.xml sudo service fah-client stop sudo rm /var/lib/fah-client/client.db sudo reboot Which fixed the error, and after rebooting, I removed the account token from config.xml sudo service fah-client stop sudo nano /etc...

calxalot wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 6:34 am Yes, that was the thought.
Make sure the account token is in config.xml

I don't see the options of deleting the client.db, stopping or restarting the service in fahctl help.

Did I misunderstand that fahctl can perform these action?

Please try fahctl state and look for anything strange in the json printed. Though you probably won’t see control characters. I looked and didn't see anything that seemed unusual. I've been messing around with over clocking, and the problem started after that. Note that these are headless machines a...

Please try fahctl state and look for anything strange in the json printed. Though you probably won’t see control characters. There is the option of finishing folding, stopping the service, deleting client.db, and restarting the service. You might want to add your account-token to config.xml before ...

For 8.4.9 and earlier, only Linux will log up/download progress. https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-client-bastet/issues/130 Thanks calxalot. There's probably no work available for RPis ... they can barely make the deadlines and FAH don't assign to clients with less than 3 CPU threads. Unless it'...

toTOW wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 2:21 pm Do you have non-alphanumeric characters in your Username ?

No. And, it's only happening on one of my 20 RPI 5B's.

Why do my RPi's log the download and upload progress, but my Windows PC (GPU only) doesn't?

I'm really hoping that someone can help me solve this error. It appears in log files after every reboot, before the client starts folding. 06:28:11:I2:<config/> 06:28:11:I1:Opening Database 06:28:11:I1:F@H ID = <mind your own business>:28:11:I3:Loading default resource group 06:28:11:I1:Listening fo...

OP, try to lock the GPU folding thread to just one core. Fah core's average CPU use is 14.74%, which is more than one thread (12.5%), because of the sanity checks. So, locking fah core to one thread would slow down folding, by slowing down the sanity checks. Unless the sanity checks run in the back...