TheCrazyCanuck

Welcome to the wacky world of Windows and Unix new lines.....  Long story short, Windows new lines are represented by carriage return and line feed (like a typewriter) whereas Linux and Unix use just a line feed.  This is why I requested that dos2unix be added to the next VM since it'll allow you to covert Windows formatting over.

Now you can fix this yourself by doing any of the following:

1)  Take the original file from the archive file and open it in an editor on Windows that actually preserves the correct formatting, OpenOffice does this just fine.

2)  Google search "dos2unix utility for windows" and try out any of the utilities you find.

3)  If you have a linux box copy the file there and run "dos2unix <filename>" since most linux distros come with these conversion utilities.

To find out if the original formatting is preserved you can try opening the file in notepad, if you see all the lines jammed together then you are looking at Linux formatting which is what you want.  If you see the script commands formatted line by line that means Windows formatting is being used (which is what happened to you I believe).

I always thought wordpad preserved Linux line feeds but maybe that's not the case.  I run something called Cygwin on my Windows machines which comes with dos2unix so I always end up running it over my files all the time anyway.  By the sounds of it you opened the file in VI inside the VM and made the edits there which is what I was doing most of the time so you should be all set.

For the windows share make sure to use Linux style syntax of //JASON-DESKTOP/<shared directory> I make this mistake a lot when I jump back and forth between Windows and Linux so it's probably that causing it.

Also as I found out if you run ./start_folding twice without restarting the VM the cron jobs will run twice.  Since that's redundant and chewing up folding cycles I recommend rebooting the VM before running ./start_folding again.  To reboot the command is "reboot" if I remember correctly and to shutdown the VM it's "shutdown -h now"

Well, I worked around the dos to unix situation by editing the file within the VM using vi editor.  So, all is good there.  But, it does seem that WordPad adds the carriage returns.  At least for Win 7.

I had the Linux style syntax of //JASON-DESKTOP/FAH_Backup and it still does not work.  //198.162.1.45/FAH_Backup does.  I poked around in the Samba config and saw that it had a setting of WORKGROUP for the workgroup, but my Win 7 has MSHOME.  I changed that to MSHOME and rebooted.  That did not help, but now I do see the FAH machine more easily in Win 7 network explorer.  I see some options in the Samba for WINS and some DNS reference for NetBIOS, but not sure if that is the culprit.  The IP method is working.  I doubt my router would ever give my machine a different IP, but if it did that could be an issue.  So, machine name is what I would prefer.  I am just not sure why it is not working.

Thanks for the heads up about the reboot between start_folding runs.

jasonanderson

TheCrazyCanuck

Welcome to the wacky world of Windows and Unix new lines.....  Long story short, Windows new lines are represented by carriage return and line feed (like a typewriter) whereas Linux and Unix use just a line feed.  This is why I requested that dos2unix be added to the next VM since it'll allow you to covert Windows formatting over.

Now you can fix this yourself by doing any of the following:

1)  Take the original file from the archive file and open it in an editor on Windows that actually preserves the correct formatting, OpenOffice does this just fine.

2)  Google search "dos2unix utility for windows" and try out any of the utilities you find.

3)  If you have a linux box copy the file there and run "dos2unix <filename>" since most linux distros come with these conversion utilities.

To find out if the original formatting is preserved you can try opening the file in notepad, if you see all the lines jammed together then you are looking at Linux formatting which is what you want.  If you see the script commands formatted line by line that means Windows formatting is being used (which is what happened to you I believe).

I always thought wordpad preserved Linux line feeds but maybe that's not the case.  I run something called Cygwin on my Windows machines which comes with dos2unix so I always end up running it over my files all the time anyway.  By the sounds of it you opened the file in VI inside the VM and made the edits there which is what I was doing most of the time so you should be all set.

For the windows share make sure to use Linux style syntax of //JASON-DESKTOP/<shared directory> I make this mistake a lot when I jump back and forth between Windows and Linux so it's probably that causing it.

Also as I found out if you run ./start_folding twice without restarting the VM the cron jobs will run twice.  Since that's redundant and chewing up folding cycles I recommend rebooting the VM before running ./start_folding again.  To reboot the command is "reboot" if I remember correctly and to shutdown the VM it's "shutdown -h now"

Well, I worked around the dos to unix situation by editing the file within the VM using vi editor.  So, all is good there.  But, it does seem that WordPad adds the carriage returns.  At least for Win 7.

I had the Linux style syntax of //JASON-DESKTOP/FAH_Backup and it still does not work.  //198.162.1.45/FAH_Backup does.  I poked around in the Samba config and saw that it had a setting of WORKGROUP for the workgroup, but my Win 7 has MSHOME.  I changed that to MSHOME and rebooted.  That did not help, but now I do see the FAH machine more easily in Win 7 network explorer.  I see some options in the Samba for WINS and some DNS reference for NetBIOS, but not sure if that is the culprit.  The IP method is working.  I doubt my router would ever give my machine a different IP, but if it did that could be an issue.  So, machine name is what I would prefer.  I am just not sure why it is not working.

Thanks for the heads up about the reboot between start_folding runs.

My homegroup happened to be called HOMEGROUP on both Vista and 7 folding machines.  Also make sure that the VM is configured for NAT instead of bridged mode.  Most virtualization software defaults to bridged but I find NAT works the best in all the network topologies I've used VMs with.

Yep that's the setting you want to change.  What that means is from outside your computer that VM IP address will look like the host it is running on.  If you have a broadband router then it uses the same technique most likely so that multiple IPs behind it look like a single one to the modem.  I think it tracks accesses and knows where they should route and that's how it keeps track of everything ...... it was new technology when I was taking networking in school so I don't know for sure how it works but for virtualization it's been the only way I can get a VM to talk properly on a network.

I would stop the VM first, edit the setting, then start it back up.  Backup your work first just to make sure shutting down the folding core doesn't cause the contents to become corrupt (I've seen that a couple of times while testing my scripts).

Nevermind figured it out.

Well lesson learned. Its a bad idea to try and watch the UFC fights on the computer while the CPU and GPU are folding. Lost my -bigadv I think. It appears to have recovered but I am very doubtful. Hopefully so it was at 81% which was just over 48 hours and had about 11 more hours to go.

s1ngular

The bigadv folding is killing my gpu PPD, is this normal? All my gpu's usually all get 7,500+/-. Now they are dipping below 6,000 to 2,000 PPD.

Lol, read this. http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=69294

ChaseH

Well lesson learned. Its a bad idea to try and watch the UFC fights on the computer while the CPU and GPU are folding. Lost my -bigadv I think. It appears to have recovered but I am very doubtful. Hopefully so it was at 81% which was just over 48 hours and had about 11 more hours to go.

Did the work unit finish okay?


As long as the system did not crash while the client was writing to disk for a checkpoint, I think it should be okay.

I just realized that after I posted I am inside the top 2k for the project. Thats kinda cool. Also there is only 3 people on my radar but 1 is over 6 years back. This is an awesome Monday morning here guys.

I have 2 different i7 cpu's.
 
1st is a i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz and the 0.4 linux shell works just fine on it.
 
2nd is a i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz and when I try and start it I get the error message that it will only run on x86 cpus and it found a 666 cpu and then it freezes up.
 
What's up?
 
Tks
Rick

rickoic

2nd is a i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz and when I try and start it I get the error message that it will only run on x86 cpus and it found a 666 cpu and then it freezes up.
 
What's up?

Are you running a 64-bit OS on this system?

linuxrouter

TheCrazyCanuck

I have a question about the work directory.  I'm seeing it grow and I'm not sure how big it will get so does anyone know if the client will clean up the work folder once disk space starts running out?  In my work directory I'm seeing files that start with "wudata_00" through "wudata_01" and the VM is down to only 1.1GB of free space so I'm wondering if I need to clean up the directory manually before I leave on vacation.

I believe the client does the cleanup. I normally do not see more than around 700MB in the work directory. Can you check disk usage for the work folder?


du -sm work

I'm seeing ~1.2GB of usage.  It looks like files from four different work units are in there so when my current one is complete I'll take a look to see if it deletes the old ones in there.

Well I changed to Win 7 Pro 64-bit and I have it up and running.

Not sure that was the problem cause I had one of those moments and realized that I hadn't turned on virtulization after I had changed and when I turned that on everything was alright.

Tks everyone.

Rick

Anyone ever ran into a problem were fahmon will not see the fah folder when you know your putting in the correct IP?
Was working fine, I just did a clean install of W7 64bit & now it will no longer monitor in fahmon.
I've looked around as much as I know how, but can't seen to put my finger on what is causing this problem.
f@H client is running fine, just no way to monitor the PPD or get to the files txt to have a look at them..

Foldmiester

TheWolf

Anyone ever ran into a problem were fahmon will not see the fah folder when you know your putting in the correct IP?
Was working fine, I just did a clean install of W7 64bit & now it will no longer monitor in fahmon.
I've looked around as much as I know how, but can't seen to put my finger on what is causing this problem.
f@H client is running fine, just no way to monitor the PPD or get to the files txt to have a look at them..

Have you tried going to "tools" and select "download new projects"

Yes, but that is not my problem.
FAHmon can not find the VM fah folder to get the PPD info from the fah VM client threw the IP it show as VM boots.
192.168.1.110\fah
Edit: btw this is the lastest 4v I'm using posted on the main post.
Using it on other rigs & it working fine with them, just not with this new install of the OS.
Working fine with OS W764bit & XP on other rigs.
Its kind of like the folder is hiden or the network connection to it is not there.
I have also tried a new DL & install of Linux FAH Image v0.4  & VMplayer, was no help to fix the problem.

Foldmiester

TheWolf

Foldmiester

TheWolf

Anyone ever ran into a problem were fahmon will not see the fah folder when you know your putting in the correct IP?
Was working fine, I just did a clean install of W7 64bit & now it will no longer monitor in fahmon.
I've looked around as much as I know how, but can't seen to put my finger on what is causing this problem.
f@H client is running fine, just no way to monitor the PPD or get to the files txt to have a look at them..

Have you tried going to "tools" and select "download new projects"

Yes, but that is not my problem.
FAHmon can not find the VM fah folder to get the PPD info from the fah VM client threw the IP it show as VM boots.
192.168.1.110\fah
Edit: btw this is the lastest 4v I'm using posted on the main post.
Using it on other rigs & it working fine with them, just not with this new install of the OS.
Working fine with OS W764bit & XP on other rigs.
Its kind of like the folder is hiden or the network connection to it is not there.
I have also tried a new DL & install of Linux FAH Image v0.4  & VMplayer, was no help to fix the problem.

I noticed you have your path set to 192.168.1.110\fah    use\\in front ie: \\192.168.1.110\fah

Thanks you!
 
Don't know how I kept missing that as many time as I have set this up.
That was my problem. Just a over site.