Is there a way to run folding @ home without being logged in under any account? I want it to run all the time even without someone logged in.
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Folding @ home
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EDIT: Looks like one of the moderators moved it. Thanks!trainguy77 said:
To answer your question:
The only thing I can think of is to enable the root user and add Folding@Home to root's startup items, since root is ALWAYS logged in anytime the machine is on. I haven't tested this, so I don't know if it will work...
mc68k's folding scripts give you the option to start folding at boot up, which places the commands to start Folding via a cron job - no need for anyone to be logged in or mess around with root stuff.
The option to install as a service in Windows does the same thing.
The option to install as a service in Windows does the same thing.
This is what i wanted thanks.
One more question. When i run the single processor. How do i use the commands it mentions? ie work. Where do i enter them?
Also when i run this program there are two proccess named: Fahcore_78.exe i thought there should be only one! There is also two process called dnetc taking up a good bit of CPU what is this?
One more question. When i run the single processor. How do i use the commands it mentions? ie work. Where do i enter them?
Also when i run this program there are two proccess named: Fahcore_78.exe i thought there should be only one! There is also two process called dnetc taking up a good bit of CPU what is this?
To run the commands, open up Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/), type the command and hit enter.
As for the multiple instances of Folding running, it sounds like you either accidentally installed the dual processor script or installed it more than once. dnetc is the RC5 client which I'm guessing you also downloaded from mc68k's page and installed.
To clean up the extra instances of Folding, enter "rid" in Terminal until you no longer see a Folding process. To get rid of dnetc, quit the processes from the Activity Monitor and then delete any dnetc folders you find in your home directory. That pretty much does it.
As for the multiple instances of Folding running, it sounds like you either accidentally installed the dual processor script or installed it more than once. dnetc is the RC5 client which I'm guessing you also downloaded from mc68k's page and installed.
To clean up the extra instances of Folding, enter "rid" in Terminal until you no longer see a Folding process. To get rid of dnetc, quit the processes from the Activity Monitor and then delete any dnetc folders you find in your home directory. That pretty much does it.
i got the duplicate copies fixed but the link for the commands was not created. So right no instead of just typing work i have to type ~/.work or the other ones for pause etc, and those get long. How do you manualy add the links?
You need to add the appropriate directory to the PATH environment variable. This is the command I use in my ~/.bash_profile:trainguy77 said:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
Directories are separated by colons. No end marker is needed.
ok i can't get it to work what would an ex. look like? would it be
export PATH=$work: (then the path to the file?)
export PATH=$work: (then the path to the file?)
Where is the work directory located? Is it inside your home folder? If it is, use this instead:trainguy77 said:
export PATH=$PATH:~/work
You MUST include $PATH as part of the new path if you're adding to it (which is what you want to do); otherwise, common commands like cd will no longer work because their location is no longer part of the PATH! You can still run them manually if you happen to know which one of the directories in the old PATH had the command in question in it.
The ~ is a UNIX shortcut to your home folder.
ok i found out why the commands where not working: i was using i think it was a bosch terminal not a tcsh. Which means that .login was not being used which means the alias where not being used. so it all works now!
That's why I suggested using .bash_profile, since bash is the default shell in Panther. Nevertheless, you seem to have figured it out.trainguy77 said:
benpatient said:now i see why people switch to a Mac...PCs are too complicated.
Configged any 'nix systems lately?
Rower_CPU said:Configged any 'nix systems lately?
Nope, don't understand it, just want the simplicity of a Mac.
Rower_CPU said:Configged any 'nix systems lately?
You just reminded me of an old UNIX version 7 workalike where you added users by putting the text in the passwd file. Of course, it was a security risk, if you could get someone to turn on the 300 bps modem and keep it connected long enough to hack it.
My blue and white G3 hard drive is dead, so my folding@home potential is town a bit. Nice to see someone else is taking up the slack...thanks trainguy77,
The nice thing about OS X is that you can be totally ignorant of the underlying OS details and still do everything you need to do. However, you can also get down into the bowels of it and enjoy a modern *nix OS to your hearts content. You get to decide.
stubeeef said:
Nothing screwed up, give it some more time before you come to that conclusion. Some work units might take your machine well over an hour to process a single percent. It just depends on your computer.
stubeeef said:
Welcome and thanks for joining!
Consider that I had a G3/400 and a dual G4/800. The same work unit would take 4 hours 10 minutes on the G3/400 and 1 hour 23 minutes on a single processor of the dual 800 per percent.
Some are more complex so they take more time. Be patient, it'll probably surprise you eventually.
thanks, upto 14% after a couple of days, I think that running seti and folding is a bit much for my wee 12". Just trying to be a productive MR user.
I am going to stifle seti and see the results. I have an old dual 450 with 1gb ram sitting in the closet, maybe I crank it up!
I am going to stifle seti and see the results. I have an old dual 450 with 1gb ram sitting in the closet, maybe I crank it up!
stubeeef said:
When my G3/400 was crunching, some took around two weeks. They've only gotten more complex since then. Three years ago when I started folding, they had work units that took my machine 10 hours to process and got me 0.6 points.
Things are much better now.
By the way, you haven't mentioned what you have. Is it a p874? They're taking me several days to process.
stubeeef said:
If you want to whip through packets faster there is an option you can set to only allow download/upload of work units/results of less than 5 MB. I have two AMD machines running like this at home since if they download anything larger they take upto 15 days to get through a WU running 24/7. I keep my PB, and work machine (hyperthreaded P4 @ 2.8 GHz, running one F@H on each thread pipeline) running the big ones. Usually takes them about 4 days or so depending on the WU. The smaller work units don't bump your point total as much but you can get through them in a day or so depending on your processor.
bousozoku said:
Actually right now I have an *ss kicking headache! That's what I've got!
The protien is p874_p53dimer8 and I'm at 85 %.
So do you get more credit for harder work? I guess I need to go back to their web site and find some faq's.
edit: did probe around and saw this one isn't due till march 28th! So I guess I'm doing ok. Am using a 12" pb 1.33.