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arisu wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 7:31 am Oh! I didn't mean to run more folding threads than there are hardware threads. Yes, that would pointlessly hurt performance. You'd have to turn the CPU slider down to match the real number of threads you have. Sorry for being unclear, never meant to suggest that!

Knutowskie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:14 pm Well i got a free 4 core server with 24GB of RAM at oracles cloud. the cpu is not comparable to a RasPi.

We need to make clear, that "ARM is weak" belongs to the past. ARM is the future.

Oracle itself deletes unused VMs, so i gave it a use. Until i got time to do something better with it.

But lets NOT continue the discussion about cheating and so on. that is not the topic here.

all i wanted is: i dont want to MANUALLY restart the service until i get a WU downloaded. it works 100% when i restart the service. i get WUs. that is not the problem here.

Knutowskie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:14 pm Well i got a free 4 core server with 24GB of RAM at oracles cloud. the cpu is not comparable to a RasPi.

We need to make clear, that "ARM is weak" belongs to the past. ARM is the future.

Oracle itself deletes unused VMs, so i gave it a use. Until i got time to do something better with it.

But lets NOT continue the discussion about cheating and so on. that is not the topic here.

all i wanted is: i dont want to MANUALLY restart the service until i get a WU downloaded. it works 100% when i restart the service. i get WUs. that is not the problem here.

foxpy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:47 pm

Knutowskie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:14 pm Well i got a free 4 core server with 24GB of RAM at oracles cloud. the cpu is not comparable to a RasPi.

We need to make clear, that "ARM is weak" belongs to the past. ARM is the future.

Oracle itself deletes unused VMs, so i gave it a use. Until i got time to do something better with it.

But lets NOT continue the discussion about cheating and so on. that is not the topic here.

all i wanted is: i dont want to MANUALLY restart the service until i get a WU downloaded. it works 100% when i restart the service. i get WUs. that is not the problem here.

Actually, before you begin folding on this server, are you sure that this free tier VM has 4 dedicated CPU cores, or are they simply the shared ones? The performance of shared vCPUs is going to be extremely bad for fah due to GROMACS nature of running as fast as the slowest thread.

arisu wrote: ↑Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:51 am I think that each one is guaranteed to give you a certain performance and you won't have to suffer from 3 fast ones and 1 slow one that happens to be getting used by someone else.

foxpy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:00 pm

arisu wrote: ↑Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:51 am I think that each one is guaranteed to give you a certain performance and you won't have to suffer from 3 fast ones and 1 slow one that happens to be getting used by someone else.

Well, as long as this setup finishes work before timeout, I think it is worth folding on, especially for such a low price

fahctl state
{
  "info": {
    "version": "8.4.9",
    "url": "https://v8-4.foldingathome.org/",
    "os": "linux",
    "os_version": "6.8",
    "cpu": "arm64",
    "cpu_brand": "Neoverse N",
    "cpus": 4,
    "gpus": {},
    "mach_name": "KNUT-02",
    "hostname": "KNUT-02",
    "mode": "Release",
    "revision": "360fe71b1bd05bb89814bfb97b73a5bda84802d6",
    "has_battery": false,
    "on_battery": false,
    "id": "################################",
    "account": "##############################"
  },
  "config": {"user": "Knutowskie", "team": 70335, "passkey": "#########################", "cause": "unspecified"},
  "groups": {
    "": {
      "config": {
        "on_idle": false,
        "on_battery": false,
        "keep_awake": false,
        "paused": false,
        "finish": false,
        "beta": false,
        "cuda": true,
        "key": 0,
        "cpus": 4,
        "gpus": {}
      },
      "wait": "2025-04-05T21:28:27Z",
      "failed_wus": 0,
      "lost_wus": 0,
      "failed": ""
    }
  },
  "units": [
    {
      "group": "",
      "number": 34,
      "cpus": 4,
      "gpus": [],
      "state": "DOWNLOAD",
      "paused": false,
      "id": "VR0kBC3fX_aN_UYszQGbWMMzWbfbwhUMjNGhcldhMbI"
    }
  ]
}

00:01:08:I1:WU15:Requesting WU assignment for user Knutowskie team 70335
00:01:08:I1:OUT1:> GET https://api.foldingathome.org/machine/################## HTTP/1.1
00:01:08:I1:OUT2:> GET https://api.foldingathome.org/gpus HTTP/1.1
00:01:08:I1:OUT3:> POST https://assign1.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
00:01:09:I1:OUT1:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK
00:01:09:I1:OUT4:> GET wss://node1.foldingathome.org/ws/client HTTP/1.1
00:01:09:I1:OUT2:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK
00:01:09:I1:OUT4:< HTTP/1.1 101 HTTP_SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS
00:01:09:I1:Logging into node account
00:02:03:I1:OUT3:< HTTP/1.1 200 HTTP_OK
00:02:03:I1:WU15:Received WU assignment B1cvcGLXQa2NNEpvOw8zCm9cPwrN_NeOpHOR8JRnXJg
00:02:03:I1:WU15:Downloading WU
00:02:03:I1:OUT6:> POST https://highland2.seas.upenn.edu/api/assign HTTP/1.1
00:07:42:I1:Clean exit

foxpy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:27 pm To be honest for me this looks like some bug in fah-client. Maybe it lacks a timeout somewhere and tries to read from a stuck socket indefinitely. If I were you, I would report it on github here: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-cl ... tet/issues