Folding Forum

One person who folds on cloud similar to this reports that turning off automatic GPU detection, by setting "gpu" to "false" in the config helps. So the opposite of what I suggested at first. Thank you for the feedback. I am currently testing multiple scenario and still not able ...

gunnarre wrote:This thread is about work servers - the machines which you download and upload work units from. Are you asking about cloud folding on Amazon EC2?

Yes sorry if I went out topic just had the impression that my issue was related. Yes I was referring to cloud folding on Amazon EC2.

Are you backing up the /var/lib/fahclient/cores directory and /var/lib/fahclient/GPUs.txt too? I've backed up the entire /var/lib/fahclient in the end and it still doesn't work. This is the error I am getting: 9:03:01:Trying to access database... 09:03:01:Successfully acquired database lock ^[[93m0...

Hello, I am currently allowing some budget to fold on AWS with EC2. Sometimes the instance gets killed and I would like to backup the work directory to be able to resume it when I start another ec2 instance. I tried to backup the /var/lib/fahclient/work directory but I am getting some errors when sy...

If the team is struggling with building more hardware servers please consider cloud based virtual servers. The first one will take a few hours to build, but once done many systems will allow you to replicate that server very fast - minutes I use DigitalOcean and I can stand up a new server from a a...