FahMon (multi-platform app to monitor various F@h clients)

This forum contains information about 3rd party applications which may be of use to those who run the FAH client and one place where you might be able to get help when using one of those apps.

Moderator: Site Moderators

toTOW
Site Moderator
Posts: 6349
Joined: Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:38 am
Location: Bordeaux, France
Contact:

Re: FahMon (multi-platform app to monitor various F@h clients)

Post by toTOW »

Last 3 frames is my favorite setting :)
Image

Folding@Home beta tester since 2002. Folding Forum moderator since July 2008.
uncle_fungus
Site Admin
Posts: 1288
Joined: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:37 am
Location: Oxfordshire, UK

Re: FahMon (multi-platform app to monitor various F@h clients)

Post by uncle_fungus »

slegrand wrote:Ok that's weird... How does effective frame time therefore end up faster than all frames?
If the early stored frames for "all frames" are really long, they will skew the resulting average towards a higher frame time. As performance of cores increases this becomes more obvious as the recent frames are faster than the stored frames. The effective frame time has the slight disadvantage of projecting downtime forwards into the ETA and PPD. Ideally, the best calculation method would be a hybrid that combines "effective rate" for frames in the past, and R3F for frames in the future.
slegrand wrote:And is there a way to refresh the all frames?
No, but I can add one pretty easily.
bruce
Posts: 20824
Joined: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:13 pm
Location: So. Cal.

Re: FahMon (multi-platform app to monitor various F@h clients)

Post by bruce »

uncle_fungus wrote:
slegrand wrote:And is there a way to refresh the all frames?
No, but I can add one pretty easily.
Wouldn't it be better to just replace them in "moving window" style where the most recent frame replaces the oldest one? That would make it automatic and would drift toward more recent times if there is enough of a trend to matter.
Davor_Izakovic
Posts: 3
Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:16 pm

FAHmon - which version on Vista 64?

Post by Davor_Izakovic »

Hi,
I have Vista Ultimate 64bit and tried to install fahmon 2.3.2b but after instalation I couldn't run it properly. The 'can not access config folder' error kept appearing and I couldn't do anything at that point.
Anyone has fahmon on Vista 64? Which version should I try to install?

Threads merged -UF
uncle_fungus
Site Admin
Posts: 1288
Joined: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:37 am
Location: Oxfordshire, UK

Re: FAHmon - which version on Vista 64?

Post by uncle_fungus »

In Vista, if you have UAC turned on, you'll need to either disable UAC, set FahMon to run as admin, or simply install it outside of "program files".
Trivolve
Posts: 38
Joined: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:08 pm
Hardware configuration: Core 2 Duo E6300@3.36Ghz/Scythe Ninja Plus
Asus Commando
2x2GB Corsair XMS2 DHX @ 960Mhz 5/5/5/18
Leadtek Nvidia 8800GTS 320mb @ 621/1438/999
2x250GB Seagate 7200.10 RAID 0
Samsung 931BF
Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000
Location: Singapore

Re: FAHmon - which version on Vista 64?

Post by Trivolve »

Does the directory of the GPU Client point to:

C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Roaming\Folding@Home-gpu\
Last edited by Trivolve on Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
uncle_fungus
Site Admin
Posts: 1288
Joined: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:37 am
Location: Oxfordshire, UK

Re: FAHmon - which version on Vista 64?

Post by uncle_fungus »

Trivolve wrote:Documented many times.

When asked for the directory of the GPU Client, point to:

C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Roaming\Folding@Home-gpu\
That is a different problem.
Trivolve
Posts: 38
Joined: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:08 pm
Hardware configuration: Core 2 Duo E6300@3.36Ghz/Scythe Ninja Plus
Asus Commando
2x2GB Corsair XMS2 DHX @ 960Mhz 5/5/5/18
Leadtek Nvidia 8800GTS 320mb @ 621/1438/999
2x250GB Seagate 7200.10 RAID 0
Samsung 931BF
Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000
Location: Singapore

Re: FAHmon - which version on Vista 64?

Post by Trivolve »

Oops ya saw wrongly. u posted seconds before i could edit T_T.
benadderson
Posts: 3
Joined: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:52 pm

Re: FahMon (multi-platform app to monitor various F@h clients)

Post by benadderson »

This may have been asked before, but I couldn't find the answer here or in the the FahMon documentation:

What is the significance of the * when it appears next to the PPD of a client?

N.B. This is the first time I've ever wanted to search for the actual character * instead of using it as a wild card, very annoying!
Image
uncle_fungus
Site Admin
Posts: 1288
Joined: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:37 am
Location: Oxfordshire, UK

Re: FahMon (multi-platform app to monitor various F@h clients)

Post by uncle_fungus »

It means that the PPD is not guaranteed to be accurate. This happens when FahMon is using the psummary value for the frame count, rather than using it's internal calculations. Unfortunately for the GPU2 client this is always on, however this has been fixed for the next release.
dino5050
Posts: 2
Joined: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:34 pm

Fahmon problems

Post by dino5050 »

I'm trying to use Fahmon, but I don't know what folder I'm suppose to set it to. My cousin told me I have to find cudart.dll, or the work folder, but I have found neither. I'm using windows XP.

Thanks,
Dino


I merged your thread with the already existing FahMon Topic. 7im
anandhanju
Posts: 522
Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:33 am
Location: Australia

Re: Fahmon problems

Post by anandhanju »

Hello Dino5050, welcome to the forum.

The data files for FAH should be stored at "C:\Documents and Settings\<your_windows_username>\Application Data\Folding@home-gpu\". See if this location exists and get FAHMon to point to it.
Fadamor
Posts: 40
Joined: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:21 pm
Hardware configuration: Windows 7 RC1
QX9650 Core2 Extreme
EVGA NFORCE 780i SLI FTW mobo (the MSI P7N Diamond bit the dust)
8GB Corsair XMS2 DRAM
EVGA GTX 295
Thermaltake Black Widow 850W (Modular cables)
185.85 Windows 7 GeForce Drivers
15.35 NForce Drivers
1.3TB RAID 0+1 array
LinkSys 802.11n (USB)
6.23 GPU2 SysTray Client (x2)
Location: Northern VA

Re: Fahmon problems

Post by Fadamor »

The APPLICATION DATA folder under your user name is a hidden folder, so when you look for it, make sure you have changed your view settings to "Show Hidden Files".
Image
Image
dino5050
Posts: 2
Joined: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:34 pm

Re: Fahmon problems

Post by dino5050 »

awesome, i found it. Thanks!

Dino
leexgx
Posts: 25
Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:05 am
Hardware configuration: snip

Re: Fahmon problems

Post by leexgx »

or just check the FAH GPU2 short cut for the working folder (right click on it) its there to copy and paste just remove the "" from it when putting it into FAHmon
Image
Post Reply