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Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:36 pm
by RenzX
would this take longer if i play games?
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 2:04 pm
by P5-133XL
Yes, folding takes longer if you are using the computer. The CPU clients have a priority system that gets out of the way and effectively stop folding when the CPU is being used by some other program. The point is that if you are using the CPU, then that is probably the thing that you want to happen at that time.
The GPU clients don't have that capability, so the GPU is shared between whatever programs are using it whether it is gaming or your web browser. More to the point, if you are folding on a GPU then your game runs slower. In that instance you may wish to pause folding during your gaming session. If you game more than a few hours at a time, or you are likely to fail to restart folding when you are done then you are better off actually quiting the folding client and then restarting it afterwards for the client can kill the WU if it is on pause too long.
another question
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:33 am
by RenzX
i have found out why i have to reformat my computer bec of "failed to overclocked" does this have anything to do about F@H? or is it just my computer and also i have reformated my computer again cos of this problem i have to reinstall F@H again. but for about 30 minites or more im still attempting to get work packets.
my log file
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--- Opening Log file [December 30 06:06:01 UTC]
# Windows CPU Systray Edition #################################################
###############################################################################
Folding@Home Client Version 6.23
http://folding.stanford.edu
###############################################################################
###############################################################################
Launch directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Renz\Application Data\Folding@home-x86
[06:07:04] - Ask before connecting: No
[06:07:04] - User name: renzX (Team 143016)
[06:07:04] - User ID not found locally
[06:07:04] + Requesting User ID from server
[06:07:04] - Machine ID: 1
[06:07:04]
[06:07:04] Work directory not found. Creating...
[06:07:04] Could not open work queue, generating new queue...
[06:07:05] Initialization complete
[06:07:05] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[06:07:05] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:07:05] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:07:05] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:07:05] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:07:06] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:07:06] - Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:07:16] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:07:16] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:07:17] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:07:17] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:07:17] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:07:17] - Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:07:37] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:07:37] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:07:37] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:07:37] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:07:38] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:07:38] - Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:07:39] Opening http://foldingforum.org/...
[06:08:10] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:08:10] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:08:11] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:08:11] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:08:11] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:08:11] - Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
Folding@Home Client Shutdown.
--- Opening Log file [December 30 06:10:00 UTC]
# Windows CPU Systray Edition #################################################
###############################################################################
Folding@Home Client Version 6.23
http://folding.stanford.edu
###############################################################################
###############################################################################
Launch directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Renz\Application Data\Folding@home-x86
[06:10:00] - Ask before connecting: No
[06:10:00] - User name: renzX (Team 143016)
[06:10:00] - User ID: 2992F2335DFE00C4
[06:10:00] - Machine ID: 1
[06:10:00]
[06:10:00] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:10:00] Initialization complete
[06:10:00] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[06:10:00] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:10:00] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:10:01] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:10:01] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:10:01] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:10:02] - Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:10:15] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:10:15] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:10:16] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:10:16] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:10:16] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:10:17] - Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:10:29] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:10:29] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:10:30] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:10:30] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:10:30] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:10:30] - Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:11:00] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:11:00] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:11:01] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:11:01] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:11:01] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:11:01] - Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:11:55] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:11:55] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:11:55] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:11:55] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:11:56] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:11:57] - Attempt #5 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:13:30] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:13:30] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:13:30] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:13:30] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:13:31] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:13:31] - Attempt #6 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:16:20] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:16:20] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:16:21] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:16:21] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:16:21] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:16:22] - Attempt #7 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:21:51] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:21:51] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:21:52] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:21:52] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:21:52] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:21:53] - Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:32:33] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:32:33] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:32:34] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:32:34] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:32:34] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:32:35] - Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
hoping for a reply
~renzX~
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:59 am
by Baowoulf
The only thing F@H might have done is showed you that your overclock is too high to be stable if your overclocking. It tends to work your computer a bit harder then other stuff such as gaming. So in a way it's a good test to see if your overclock or computer is stable. If you are overclocking try taking it down a bit. If you aren't maybe something is going on in your computer that is giving you that message.
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:29 am
by RenzX
thanks but the other question why am i still attempting to get work units its about 5 hours already
log file updated
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--- Opening Log file [December 30 06:49:25 UTC]
# Windows CPU Systray Edition #################################################
###############################################################################
Folding@Home Client Version 6.23
http://folding.stanford.edu
###############################################################################
###############################################################################
Launch directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Renz\Application Data\Folding@home-x86
[06:49:25] - Ask before connecting: No
[06:49:25] - User name: renzX (Team 143016)
[06:49:25] - User ID: 2992F2335DFE00C4
[06:49:25] - Machine ID: 1
[06:49:25]
[06:49:25] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:49:25] Initialization complete
[06:49:25] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[06:49:25] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:49:25] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:49:26] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:49:26] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:49:26] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:49:27] - Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:49:43] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:49:43] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:49:44] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:49:44] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:49:44] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:49:44] - Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:50:09] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:50:09] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:50:09] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:50:09] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:50:10] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:50:10] - Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:50:19] Opening http://foldingforum.org/...
[06:50:43] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:50:43] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:50:44] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:50:44] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:50:44] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:50:44] - Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:51:33] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:51:33] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:51:34] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:51:34] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:51:34] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:51:34] - Attempt #5 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:53:06] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:53:06] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:53:07] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:53:07] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:53:07] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:53:08] - Attempt #6 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[06:56:01] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:56:01] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:56:02] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[06:56:02] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:56:02] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:56:02] - Attempt #7 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[07:01:29] + Attempting to get work packet
[07:01:30] - Connecting to assignment server
[07:01:31] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[07:01:31] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[07:01:32] Loaded queue successfully.
[07:01:32] - Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[07:08:40] Opening http://foldingforum.org/...
[07:12:13] + Attempting to get work packet
[07:12:13] - Connecting to assignment server
[07:12:14] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[07:12:14] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[07:12:15] Loaded queue successfully.
[07:12:15] - Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[07:33:45] + Attempting to get work packet
[07:33:45] - Connecting to assignment server
[07:33:46] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[07:33:46] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[07:33:46] Loaded queue successfully.
[07:33:47] - Attempt #10 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[07:40:56] Opening http://foldingforum.org/...
[08:16:31] + Attempting to get work packet
[08:16:31] - Connecting to assignment server
[08:16:32] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[08:16:32] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[08:16:32] Loaded queue successfully.
[08:16:33] - Attempt #11 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[08:27:11] Opening http://foldingforum.org/...
[09:04:45] + Attempting to get work packet
[09:04:45] - Connecting to assignment server
[09:04:47] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[09:04:47] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[09:04:47] Loaded queue successfully.
[09:04:47] - Attempt #12 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[09:52:51] + Attempting to get work packet
[09:52:51] - Connecting to assignment server
[09:52:52] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.33).
[09:52:52] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[09:52:52] Loaded queue successfully.
[09:52:53] - Attempt #13 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
thanks in advance
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:37 pm
by bruce
There's a problem with that server. See the discussion here: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=16952
Unfortunately there is not a lot that we can do about it until the server's owner fixes it. He has been notified.
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 2:38 am
by RenzX
oh this is happening in alot of people but today i get wu now
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:35 am
by matrix1337
yea it was on 240/250 but my computer reformated cos i cant go in =( =( =(
now im started on 0/2000 and now on 40/2000 thanks anyways =D
I got WU's of 500000 so ur lucky to have small ones
(I am new to this aswell
so don't ask anything about points to me)
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[05:35:52] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0%)
[05:40:01] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1%)
[05:44:11] Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps (2%)
[05:48:21] Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps (3%)
[05:52:31] Completed 20000 out of 500000 steps (4%)
[05:56:41] Completed 25000 out of 500000 steps (5%)
[06:00:53] Completed 30000 out of 500000 steps (6%)
[06:05:03] Completed 35000 out of 500000 steps (7%)
[06:09:14] Completed 40000 out of 500000 steps (8%)
[06:13:26] Completed 45000 out of 500000 steps (9%)
[06:17:37] Completed 50000 out of 500000 steps (10%)
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:02 pm
by 7im
Just for reference, the total number of steps doesn't really mean anything in regards to points.
This...
[05:40:01] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1%)
is the same as...
[05:40:01] Completed 5 out of 500 steps (1%)
The first one just means the time scale is moving along at larger jumps.
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:40 pm
by bruce
... and time scale jumps don't mean a whole lot, either. A protein with 3x or 4x as many atoms can easily take 10x as long to process the same number of time steps. That's why most people use PPD (points per day) to measure productivity, and even that isn't a perfect measure since the scientific value (and PPD) also depend on how fast you can return a WU, at least for those who run the SMP client.
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:35 pm
by Nathan_P
P5-133XL wrote:Yes, folding takes longer if you are using the computer. The CPU clients have a priority system that gets out of the way and effectively stop folding when the CPU is being used by some other program. The point is that if you are using the CPU, then that is probably the thing that you want to happen at that time.
The GPU clients don't have that capability, so the GPU is shared between whatever programs are using it whether it is gaming or your web browser. More to the point, if you are folding on a GPU then your game runs slower. In that instance you may wish to pause folding during your gaming session. If you game more than a few hours at a time, or you are likely to fail to restart folding when you are done then you are better off actually quiting the folding client and then restarting it afterwards for the client can kill the WU if it is on pause too long.
Depending on the game it may even crash the computer, potentially losing the WU. I am not talking about a crash to desktop either. I am talking about a full on BSOD usually with a videocard related stop code.
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:41 am
by matrix1337
bruce_ wrote:... and time scale jumps don't mean a whole lot, either. A protein with 3x or 4x as many atoms can easily take 10x as long to process the same number of time steps. That's why most people use PPD (points per day) to measure productivity, and even that isn't a perfect measure since the scientific value (and PPD) also depend on how fast you can return a WU, at least for those who run the SMP client.
Where can I see PPD in my folding logs?
I currently run 4 linux machine's (24/7) dedicated to folding@home.
Each machine has 8-cores and 16 GB ram. CPU usage is 100% all the time.
I run 'big' WU's (could choose out of small/medium/big in installation).
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:13 am
by John_Weatherman
PPD is not found in the logs (unless you want to sit down and work it out yourself the hard way). The easiest way is to use a seperate program like FAHMon or HFM.NET to monitor the clients. Just click the Tools link at the top of the Forum.
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:15 am
by Fahrenheit451
@matrix1337: Please read this thread regarding monitoring your clients: viewtopic.php?f=61&t=17239. It's not sure that you run big WU's but it's possible because you've 8-cores machines. If I'm right only projects with 8955 base points are so called big WU's (see project summary page (
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html). Depending on how fast you successfully return them you will also get a bonus.
Re: is this normal? 0/2000
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:40 am
by kommenden86
I need help. My Log Files say this and Im not getting points. How do I fix this? My Log:
[18:10:31] + Requesting User ID from server
[18:10:32] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:10:32] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[18:10:33] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:10:33] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[18:10:33]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...
[18:10:46] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:10:46] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[18:10:47] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:10:47] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[18:10:47]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...
[18:11:06] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:11:06] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[18:11:06] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:11:06] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[18:11:06]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...
[18:11:32] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:11:32] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[18:11:32] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:11:32] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[18:11:32]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...
[18:12:14] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:12:14] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[18:12:15] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[18:12:15] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[18:12:15]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...