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updated scripts to v5
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Thank you!
I'm half way through a p295 so I won't be able to update until late Wednesday or early Thursday. I'll post if I have any issues...
I'm half way through a p295 so I won't be able to update until late Wednesday or early Thursday. I'll post if I have any issues...
Dreadnought
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mc68k said:
so mc68k, what's the main benefit for upgrading older macs with the v5 of F@H? I don't want to mess with a bunch of macs unless it will give me more bang for the buck.
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bousozoku
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Mechcozmo said:
At least, I can figure out what you're saying now. 😀 I'm not sure how you're starting FAH4 but after downloading the new FAH5 executable, you'll place it in the directory where you now have FAH4. If it's a console version and you start the current one by typing ./FAH4, then you'll start it with ./FAH5 instead. If you use a GUI client, you can just download and start the new GUI client.
By the way, thanks for joining the team. I saw it in your message but I didn't think to mention it.
My WU's seem to have fallen into a black hole since running the new script
mc68k
I ran your updated scripts on my dual 1.8 G5, and I'm pretty sure that I put in my name correctly, but for some reason, my production has fallen off. I'm runing 2 other computers, a G4 867 powerbook and a dell notebook from work, but my production has dropped to 1 WU a day over the last few days, which seems low. Is it possible to double check my info and/or reinput my name and team without running the scripts again?
mc68k
I ran your updated scripts on my dual 1.8 G5, and I'm pretty sure that I put in my name correctly, but for some reason, my production has fallen off. I'm runing 2 other computers, a G4 867 powerbook and a dell notebook from work, but my production has dropped to 1 WU a day over the last few days, which seems low. Is it possible to double check my info and/or reinput my name and team without running the scripts again?
to double check open terminal and typelssmit02 said:
Code:
egrep "(user|team)" ~/F\@H1/client.cfg ~/F\@H2/client.cfgto change team/username use
Code:
cd ~/F\@H1/; ./fah5 -configonly
cd ~/F\@H2/; ./fah5 -configonlymacrumors is team 3446
Thanks, I found the black hole!
mc68k,
Thanks for the help. It turns out that I had entered the info correctly, but the problem was an improper termination of the FAH client. (I should have checked this first, but the timing seemed to correlate exactly to the update. Sorry to have wasted your time.)
Just to let people know, when the client is terminated incorrectly, it automatically turns off altivec when it restarts. This causes the time it takes to work on a problem to increase dramatically! For example, I'm running two processes, F@H1 and F@H2. On F@H1 it was completing a step every 10 mins before it terminated, after, it was every 19 minutes. On F@H2, it was worse, it went from a step every 36 minutes, to 2 hours and 10 minutes! No wonder this machine stopped reporting work units.
Thanks again to mc68k for responding so quickly. I wish there were a way to know when the client terminates improperly. All you have to do to reset it, is to stop and restart it.
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mc68k,
Thanks for the help. It turns out that I had entered the info correctly, but the problem was an improper termination of the FAH client. (I should have checked this first, but the timing seemed to correlate exactly to the update. Sorry to have wasted your time.)
Just to let people know, when the client is terminated incorrectly, it automatically turns off altivec when it restarts. This causes the time it takes to work on a problem to increase dramatically! For example, I'm running two processes, F@H1 and F@H2. On F@H1 it was completing a step every 10 mins before it terminated, after, it was every 19 minutes. On F@H2, it was worse, it went from a step every 36 minutes, to 2 hours and 10 minutes! No wonder this machine stopped reporting work units.
Thanks again to mc68k for responding so quickly. I wish there were a way to know when the client terminates improperly. All you have to do to reset it, is to stop and restart it.
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