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I seem to be folding into a black hole. I have completed and uploaded many WUs over the last few days, but my stats have stayed the same. This is not an issue with the ETF stats, my stats are not updating anywhere. I've never had this issue before. I was running an older version of the client, so I just updated to 7.6.21. Downloading my first WU with this client, so we'll see if this fixes the issue.

What version of CUDA do you have installed, and what WU failed to build and reverted to OpenCL?

You just need to speed run your thermal paste checks. It can be a comp within a comp, to see who can swap out pads and paste the quickest.

My ppd has taken a big hit over the last few days. My monitoring/alert server is down since I'm working on getting my network put back together and transitioning everything over to my new all-in-one home server. I had been periodically looking at HFM, and everything seemed fine at 875k to 1M ppd. Just looked at my EOC stats and the last few days ppd is way down. Checking my HFM config I had it set to report ppd based on the last 3 frames. I must have changed it while I was testing some other cards and never switched it back. Looking through my FAH log, it appears that my rock solid OC on the 980 is not so rock solid. I dialed the clocks back a bit, and hopefully it will stay stable.

With that GPU PCI-e 2.0 x8 shouldn't be any sort of a bottleneck. I think the GTX 680 only saw a 1-2% performance reduction going from PCI-e 3.0 x16 to PCI-e 2.0 x8. The K4000 is basically a cut down GTX 660 so you should be good to go.

I also remember that there was a certain driver that was better on Linux. If you dig around the OCN TC forum, or maybe in the Infinty thread, you should find a post from me about it. I feel like I did some testing on that, and at some point in time, a current driver caught up with the older driver. Not positive on any of the above, since that was a few years ago.

The wee little units are not good for more powerful GPUs. There is some development going on for the next client that is looking to give more fine grained controls to the work server when distributing WUs.

Looking for a sanity check on my overkill home server drive/FS layout. Below is what I've been testing, and so far, I haven't ran into any issues. /boot (esp) - 1GB FAT32 partition mirrored (sort of) on 2 nvme SSDs. Primary partition on one SSD with the secondary rsync'd to the primary on changes. /, /home, etc - Btrfs raid1 on 2x 1TB nvme SSDs /var - ext4 on 480GB Optane 905p. Containers, running VM images, logs, etc. /data - Btrfs raid10 on 6x 8TB HDDs. Room to expand to 8 total drives on current HBA /backups - Btrfs raid1 on 2x 4TB HDDs. Critical backups of other machines/VMs along with snapshots of the host OS. /victim - md Raid-0 on 4x 1TB nvme SSDs. Steamcache and squid. /offline - ??? FS on 2x 12TB HDDs (only mounted in hotswap bay while running backups) for offline/cold storage backups. Leaning towards Btrfs dup, but I'm not super thrilled with the idea of using a single file system for everything. Probably too paranoid about losing data...

Native res won't happen on a 290x, I thought you were talking about your RX 580. I think the native max single display resolution with a little hackery is something like 4096x1440. Anything larger will need eyefinity, and it's been almost a decade since I ran a de-bezeled eyefinity setup. If you are going to run the 290X in linux, you will want to force the amdgpu (kernel) driver. That card will default to the radeon driver, and when I was running my 290s the kernel driver was more performant (and still is). If you go down that rabbit hole, maybe start a thread, or just post to the thread I started in the OS form.

You should be able to at least force the resolution if it's not picked up automatically. If you want to give it a go, I can help you out. I currently run the following triple monitor setup on my main machine: 1440x2560-3440x1440-2560x1440(165Hz).

OP is updated with your proper card. My 980 has been cruising along at about 900k ppd. I'm not quite stable with the CUDA WUs at the clocks that I used to run back in the day for TC. I might be able to eek out a few for MHz if I put it back under water.

I haven't used OPNSense with 10G routing, so I can't say for sure, but a 4790k should be able to get good throughput. You might need to do some tuning, but a 4790k should be a pretty good all-around performer. If you need a little more juice, didn't ASUS unlock OC'ing on the H81 boards? Either way that CPU should be able to handle what you want to do. I might know a guy, that knows a guy, with a delidded 4790k sitting on a shelf.

That CPU should be fine. It has AES-NI, which will accelerate encryption for WireGuard/IPsec/OpenVPN if you are going to set up a VPN. If you expand your current network, and start to do any any routing at 10Gbps, then you might see some bottlenecks. For your current setup it should be more than enough CPU.

Thanks for the offer, but the whole update fiasco with EdgeOS has soured my opinion on Ubiquiti, which was already going downhill thanks to a bunch of older unresolved issues along with the long standing issue of dying internal USB storage "bricking" the hardware. I grabbed a cheap EdgeRouter X to stand up my network for the time being, but I am currently running VyOS in a VM and I am thinking about running it on hardware as my permanent router/firewall/VPN solution.

I'm just going to quote myself. As long as your 10G devices are on the same switch, subnet, and vLAN, you probably don't need to worry about your router being 10G capable, unless of course you do have faster than gigabit internet. Additionally if you do for some reason need a 10G router to route between separate vLANs then you are going to want a fast CPU with a decent sized cache.

You should be able to grab a used intel X540-t2 card on Ebay for pretty cheap, if you need a 10Gbase-T NIC.

I have a zombie 7970 that pretty much refuses to die. It has been resurrected from the dead three times. The first time it kind of just came back to life all on it's own. The second time I baked it. The third time it didn't actually die, but it will no longer output anything to the monitor. It will happily run compute work, and it is a great overclocker that can run heavy fp64 work loads at 1315core|1550mem.

No idea on the RPD hangs. Just a slightly OT post of another option to control and monitor remote clients.

A bit ironic since Musk runs the biggest walled garden in the car industry. No independent dealerships (that's why you can't buy a Tesla in a number of states), very few independant repair shops, and a more or less never ending ongoing list of GPL violations. Tesla uses the same excuses Apple uses to justify their closed ecosystem.

Since WSL and SSH are now a thing on Windows, you could just use that to monitor and control the folding client, if you don't want to mess around with RDP sessions. Quick example of how I do that on Linux. Would just need to use the right paths for Windows. Monitor the log refreshing every 30 seconds: $ watch -n30 "tail -n25 /opt/fah/log.txt" Pause/resume/finish all the slots (make sure that FAHClient is in your path): $ FAHClient --send-pause $ FAHClient --send-unpause $ FAHClient --send-finish To do the same for individual slots, just append the slot number (00, 01, 02, etc) to the end of the command $ FAHClient --send-pause/unpause/finish 01 I alias the above commands to easy to remeber things like pfold, rfold, fstat, etc.

Does Windows RDP still switch the GPU driver and kill whatever is running? Some other RDP solutions like TeamViewer and Chrome Remote Desktop should work fine on a Windows box.

Interesting. I didn't know that was really a thing. I wonder how that goes once development hits a stable release. It sounds a bit more like Debian Sid, than an actual install it once update it forever rolling release like Arch or openSUSE Tumbleweed. Has Gnome held up OK or does it frequently break? I've been on Arch for the last decade, but without a DE. Gnome, or at least the extensions/plugins seem to be the pain point with new releases.

Too many fast connections, gotta bring this back for those of us that live in the sticks with only one option for an ISP.

That is an epic backplate. I cheaped out and just painted the backplates on the Radeon VIIs in my workstation. Although, they don't really need much cooling on the backplate (gotta love HBM).

Might be joining the opnsense side of the club. I had been using Ubiquiti gear for the last 8 years, but my last EdgeRouter ERLite-3 just died and it could not be resuscitated with a new USB drive. Thinking about repurposing some soon to be retired hardware, and doing a fun 1U 3200G build, running opnsense, to put in my network rack.