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Does anyone else have a Tinker?

i got a Tinker on my Pentium machine right now... and it has taken about all week to work through (Pentium3-766mhz), started Sunday and its on Frame 285 now. My G4's never get tinkers though.
 
wdlove-
Those commands are for Terminal. You can open FAHlog.txt directly in TextEdit and read the whole thing, or use those commands from Terminal to read just that particular line.

So, you have options. :)

bous-
You did fine. Just had to clarify for the less Terminal savvy. ;)
 
adamjay said:
i got a Tinker on my Pentium machine right now... and it has taken about all week to work through (Pentium3-766mhz), started Sunday and its on Frame 285 now. My G4's never get tinkers though.
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That's because the rough performance estimates actually work with the version 4 client and the G4s are poor at floating point work. My G3 gets more (s)Tinker WUs than my dual G4 because my G3 is faster calculating floating point at the same clock speed.
 
wdlove said:
So how do you know if you have this tinker?
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The Tinker unit that I keep getting is p638, and you'll know if you have one of these because it takes about an hour to get 1 percent of it completed. :( I've been forcing the Folding client to do only Gromacs units because letting the G4 struggle with Tinkers is a waste of resources, especially during hot weather. Get an AMD chip for Tinkers. :D
 
Rower_CPU said:
wdlove-
Those commands are for Terminal. You can open FAHlog.txt directly in TextEdit and read the whole thing, or use those commands from Terminal to read just that particular line.

So, you have options. :)

bous-
You did fine. Just had to clarify for the less Terminal savvy. ;)
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I'm sorry Rower_CPU, but you have me lost. I thought that TextEdit was just for messages. I have no idea how to open Fahlog.txt. I don't think that I stupid, but just not a power user in any way. If you can remember it took MrMacman awhile to get my folding working in the first place. :confused: :(
 
wdlove said:
I'm sorry Rower_CPU, but you have me lost. I thought that TextEdit was just for messages. I have no idea how to open Fahlog.txt. I don't think that I stupid, but just not a power user in any way. If you can remember it took MrMacman awhile to get my folding working in the first place. :confused: :(
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OK, here's the breakdown: FAHlog.txt is just a simple text file, readable by any program that works with text. You could open in in Word, TextEdit, etc.

Terminal-
Typing in the commands listed will show you the contents of just that line in the fie.

TextEdit-
Using File>Open you can browse to FAHlog.txt and open it to view the contents of the entire file.

So, you have 2 completely distinct options - the commands for Terminal have nothing to do with TextEdit. Is that clearer?
 
Yes, it's the time of the tinker again!. The groms are mostly 18 pointers. All teams have taken a nose dive. We all hate tinkers, I know tinkers stink in the mac world, even our amds and ht p4's dont like them.

Hooah!
 
I think my DP 2GHZ G5 has them because my mac and PC's are really pumping out units like crazy and I am only at about 100 ppd (although a few units got lost :() when I should be at about 200... maybe in a few hours I will get a 142 point boost :)
 
Rower_CPU said:
OK, here's the breakdown: FAHlog.txt is just a simple text file, readable by any program that works with text. You could open in in Word, TextEdit, etc.

Terminal-
Typing in the commands listed will show you the contents of just that line in the fie.

TextEdit-
Using File>Open you can browse to FAHlog.txt and open it to view the contents of the entire file.

So, you have 2 completely distinct options - the commands for Terminal have nothing to do with TextEdit. Is that clearer?
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I'm sorry, but no. :confused: I definitely don't want to do something that would mess our Mac's. My wife would kill me.
 
wdlove said:
I'm sorry, but no. :confused: I definitely don't want to do something that would mess our Mac's. My wife would kill me.
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Nothing involved with this process could have any negative repercussions on your Mac. All you're doing is looking at the contents of a text file. Let's just forget the Terminal options and try TextEdit.

Open TextEdit and then go to File>Open and navigate to the folder where Folding@Home is installed and then open FAHlog.txt and look at its contents. All we're concerned about is the top 12 lines or so, which should look like this:
Code: 
# Mac OS X Edition ############################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@home Client Version 4.00

                          [url]http://folding.stanford.edu[/url]

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Arguments: -local -advmethods -forceasm -verbosity 9

Let us know what the contents of the Arguments section are. :)
 
Easter Sunday 12:33 est I just got hamered with a Tinker (p638 70.9 points though). I'm gonna watch this one......
 
Rower_CPU said:
Open TextEdit and then go to File>Open and navigate to the folder where Folding@Home is installed and then open FAHlog.txt and look at its contents. All we're concerned about is the top 12 lines or so, which should look like this:
Code: 
# Mac OS X Edition #################################

Let us know what the contents of the Arguments section are. :)[/QUOTE]

OK, so I opened TextEdit and went to File>open.  Now how do I find the folder where Folding@Home is installed?
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deciphering Tinker dialog

Can anyone tell me what's happening with this? It started at 12:33 and it's now 5:10 from what I see 0 out of 400 frames are completed. or does the "frames (5)" actually mean there are 5 finished? :confused:
 

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wdlove said:
OK, so I opened TextEdit and went to File>open. Now how do I find the folder where Folding@Home is installed?
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The Folding files should be in your user profile directory, something like
"/Users/wdlove/Library/Folding@home".
 
Sparky's said:
It started at 12:33 and it's now 5:10 from what I see 0 out of 400 frames are completed. or does the "frames (5)" actually mean there are 5 finished? :confused:
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The first line that says 0 frames completed is the one from when you first started the client. The current status is 5 frames completed, and this message is displayed for each frame completed. If you restart the client, that first line will say 5 frames completed and 395 remaining. The text in the terminal window doesn't refresh except by inserting new lines at the bottom of the window. :p
 
OK I'm running "InCrease" and when I open the terminal nothing is there. the pdf I posted was a shot from InCrease.
here are the latest the first (oicture 2) is when I open terminal and the second (picture 3) is my current InCrease status.

got it, typed in "top" in terminal and got the 3rd (picture 4)

But now what do I type in to stop top and quit out of terminal?(so damn terminal illiterate), never mind scrolled back a few pages and got it "q" or "control + c" :rolleyes:
 
I wasn't sure what you wanted Rower_CPU. ;)

--- Opening Log file [April 8 05:54:17]


# Mac OS X Edition ############################################################
###############################################################################

Folding@home Client Version 4.00

http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Arguments: -local -advmethods

...
 
Just a point of order

This topic is in the distributed computing forum so that's good. However, the distributed computing forum topics also appear on the macrumors main page. It would be nice if folders would label their topics as such to avoid wasting the time of others with vague (and sometimes misguiding when understood out of context) topic titles. Sometimes it will take several posts to even figure out that the topic is folding.
Thanks, for all the non-folders.
Kyle?
 
Kyle? said:
This topic is in the distributed computing forum so that's good. However, the distributed computing forum topics also appear on the macrumors main page. It would be nice if folders would label their topics as such to avoid wasting the time of others with vague (and sometimes misguiding when understood out of context) topic titles. Sometimes it will take several posts to even figure out that the topic is folding.
Thanks, for all the non-folders.
Kyle?
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this should get real interesting.....
 
Kyle? said:
This topic is in the distributed computing forum so that's good. However, the distributed computing forum topics also appear on the macrumors main page. It would be nice if folders would label their topics as such to avoid wasting the time of others with vague (and sometimes misguiding when understood out of context) topic titles. Sometimes it will take several posts to even figure out that the topic is folding.
Thanks, for all the non-folders.
Kyle?
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Most all of them are appropriately titled, including this one. If you don't know what it is; perhaps, you should avoid it. If not, you could learn enough about the subject to avoid one the next time.
 
Kyle? said:
This topic is in the distributed computing forum so that's good. However, the distributed computing forum topics also appear on the macrumors main page. It would be nice if folders would label their topics as such to avoid wasting the time of others with vague (and sometimes misguiding when understood out of context) topic titles. Sometimes it will take several posts to even figure out that the topic is folding.
Thanks, for all the non-folders.
Kyle?
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I'm not sure what you mean by appears on the main page. I haven't seen any other Posts or Threads about folding other than in this forum. But then I don't scour the Threads looking for them either
 
maybe its just my imagination but it seems like the gromacs go a lot faster on my G3 as well. i've been finishing proteins in half the time that i remember finishing them since the change.
 
I think Kyle? is seeing the threads on the macrumors.com main page on the right hand side - scroll allllll the way down to "other mac topics". this field just shows the latest posts from all forum sections.

But i do think it is EXTREMELY unfair to single out Folders for topics that aren't descriptive enough for him. there's a topic a day in one of the other sections that are far less descriptive, why single us out?

and "thanks for all the non-folders" ? are the "non-folders" having secret meetings regarding all the posts here?

i say get a grip Kyle?. its YOUR fault you don't know the topic is folding, not ours. if you click on a post, and the top of the page reads "Mac Forums > Mac Interests > Distributed Computing >" then there's about an 80% chance that the topic is Folding. Heaven forbid you might even learn something new.
 
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