I am trying to set up my cpu freq. scaling to ignore BOINC. From what google has shown me this is done by setting a value of 1 for ignore_nice_load. However the location of said value does not seem to be the same in 10.04 as in the results from google. How do i set this or is there a better way to keep idle processes like BOINC from increasing the my cpu frequency?
View 4 RepliesI have Fedora 15 AMD64 installed on a AMD Athlon II X2 250 3.0Ghz, 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz, with a ATI Radeon HD5450 Graphics card recently installed. Problem is that BOINC won't recognize the GPU. I know the GPU is working because I've downloaded some MKV files from VODO, and I can play them while running BOINC at a fairly high level and they play fine (using Videolan as the player). Before I installed the GPU playback on the same files was impossible to watch, it was extremely jerky.
So now I need to get BOINC to use the AMD GPU, so I can upgrade my computation speed. And I need to get it set so that if I decide to do something that needs the GPU, that it releases it. I'm considering installing Neverwinter Nights on this computer. I never did finish the game before I dumped Windows
I've been using BOINC Manager to run Einstein@Home for about a week now on Ubuntu 10.04
Before I started using it I installed the Cuda 3.0 toolkit driver downloaded off of nVidia's website. BOINC ran flawlessly until today. I don't know what changed, but now the status of my tasks is
"GPU Missing, Ready to Run(1.00 CPUs + 1.00 NVIDIA GPUs)
My card is a Geforce 9800m GTS
I've installed the Boinc 6.4.5 x86_64 using F10 update package from Fedora repo. The client runs fine using the CPUs, but doesn't fing the nVidia display processors. I've installed nVidia drivers using Fusion repo packages for F10 ( currently 180.25 ) nVidia display settings seems happy and correctly reports driver 180.25 in place as well as 9600 GSO graphics card and LCD monitor.
My objective is to get Boinc using the CUDA capabilities of my GeForce 9600 GSO graphics card and see some of the performance benefits advertised. Although Boinc client is running it will only use the CPU to do work. I have not been able to discover any flags or configuration settings to help Boinc find CUDA library files. I'm stuck at the limits of my knowledge. The following are the startup messages from Boinc. I'm assuming the fact that it can't find the library causes the inability to see the GPU coprocessor.
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I am running Testing with the liquorix kernel. Right now I have Boinc 6.10.52 on here. I have tried 6.10.58, 6.12.8 and 6.12.18 (all for 64bit linux). I have, for months, been running the 6.12.8 version. Boinc is installed in my home folder as it has been for nearly 2 years.
Rebooted after trying to test an Ubuntu LiveCD for the 11.04B1 (Failed big time). I turned off this drive in bios for that test. This has been done many times over the years of testing as I use a different drive for that and want no contamination of my main drive. I did have some problems booting that were corrected by reinstalling my fglrx-driver package.
The only problem is that Boinc will not run at all. None of those versions. They all behave the same way. Open boincmngr from menu and it comes up blank and "disconnected".Go to Advanced/Select computer. Has the option for "Debian". This is correct. Select that and enter the password for Boinc or the password for Debian and it tries to connect but does not.
I've just recently started using Fedora again and have a question about BOINC.I see that Fedora 13 is using 6.10.45, but the latest recommended release is 6.10.56.What is the timing on updated RPMs for new BOINC versions? Or is there a guide to updating manually, which I've been unable to locate?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've installed BOINC for first time (from suse repos). I'm worried about running BOINC as root. How can this be avoided? I'd first like to exhaust all options with the official opensuse repo version of BOINC. If I am unsuccessful, then I'll try the version from Berkeley website.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI am trying to switch from Ubuntu to SUSE 11.4 but installing Boinc for World Community Grid
View 6 Replies View RelatedFirst problem:
apt-get --purge remove ubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package ubuntu-desktop is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I have installed Ubuntu desktop on Ubuntu Server to get Boinc manager running. Now I want to remove Ubuntu-desktop.
Second Problem: /etc/init.d/xorg start : No such file or directory When the server boots i get a blinking cursor.
I installed BOINC version 6.10.17 through Synaptic Package Manager with no problems.
When I launch BOINC it opens fine and immediately asked to "Add Project".
I click next to select a project and everything closes, with no errors.
I have tried opening from the CLI with sudo, no success. I have uninstalled reinstalled with no success and even tried restarting the computer with nothing.
I want to be able to disable CPU scaling, whenever I want. The reason is that I run some timing tests, and I want the results to be reproducable (ie the CPU running at the same frequency). I have tried the following on 9.10 and 10.04 (both amd64). I use rcconfig to disable "on demand" (from [URL] but then when I use cpufreq-info tool I get:
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I have the CPU frequency scaling applet in the panel and it worked fine when I had 8.10 but now that I'm using Karmic, I cant get it to work correctly!
It won't change the speed to what I tell it to. I click on a different speed and it does nothing.
The CPU spins too slowly and videos lag or it spins at full speed and overheats even though I have nothing open! I really need to be able to adjust it.
I've been trying to get lucid to work on my gateway netbook. The major problem I've seen is that it would overheat (to about 63 C or a little higher, and then the display would go crazy and crash. My BIOS doesn't support cpu scaling. Somewhere in a google search, someone mentioned the 2.6.34 kernel. I had no ideal what I was doing, and I installed this kernel. (could not install headers -- a dependency issue I didn't understand). Tried it, and it booted.
Saw some errors, like timer or something not found and something about a soft reset. However, it boots, and it works, and the temperature is much better (at least for the last 42 minutes: I've not been able to run it that long before). Are those errors likely to cause problems? Are there any issues I should be aware of using a non-standard kernel like this? I am dual booting with 9.10, which works well, and all my serious work is on the 9.10 partitions.
HID compliant mouse
Synaptics PS/2 Port touchPad
Generic PnP Monitor
Atheros AR5B95 Wireless Network Adapter
Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor L110
Realtgek High Definition Audio
Microsoft iSCISI Initator
Gateway LT3103u
As I write, temp is still at 56, but I am getting some intermittent display problems. Should I give up on lucid?
I am new to ubuntu. I have just one question, everytime I reboot my laptop the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor goes back to "On Demand." Why is that and can I also set it so it stays on Performance.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm running ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. CPU speed scaling says my CPU (AMD PhenomII 1090T) is not supported, and shows full speed on all cores, regardless of load. I've read that those issues were solved in kernel 2.6.34...
How can I make it work? or do I have to wait for an update?
Motherboard is an ASUS Crossfire IV.
Admins: Feel free to shift this post to another (sub-)forum if necessary, I wasn't sure where to put it.
i face problem with Firefox 3.6.11: smooth image scaling doesn't work. When i zoom in websites (ctrl +), images are not anti aliased, but appear pixelated, which is very ugly.
What I found out about so far, this seems not to be a FF problem (FF3 should support smooth image scaling), but a problem with the video driver, who tells X it could do smooth image scaling automatically but it cant. There is also a "bug" fix for the FF:
launchpad.net/~firefox-smooth-scaling/+archive/ppa I putted this to my package sources and made a system update. But smooth image scaling still doesn't work
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Basic Info: Ubuntu 10.10, AMD RM-70 2GHZ Processor, HP G60-120US, Bios F54. I'm unable to scale my processor (either core) using the applet in the menu bar. Every time I try, I select 2GHZ, and re-open; then it's displayed that 500MHZ was selected. I'm unable to pick any speed, the computer has a mind of it's own in that sense. It's essentially stuck at 500MHZ for 98% of the uptime, which makes it impossible to do anything more than web browsing. Ex: I tried watching an HD video, I watched 5 min, and 1,400 out of the 10,000 or so were dropped!
View 1 Replies View RelatedSince the new Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't work with applets, like GNOME, I've lost an useful applet to choose the operating clock of my CPU as well as power profiles (Performance, Conservative, On Demand etc.).
I've looked into Ubuntu Software Center but couldn't find anything similar.
is there any way to ignore whole directories in Ubuntu-One? I figured out that you can use /etc/ xdg/ ubuntuone/syncdaemon.conf to ignore files by adding a regex to ignore.default, but I assume this only applies to files. So, how can I avoid the syncing of some subdirectories of my synced folders? I guess I could use symlinks as a workaround, because I read somewhere that Ubuntu-One wouldn't follow them.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI managed to half fix my earlier problem of being unable to clone my desktop monitor to my TV. I set the configuration to TwinView, and the resolution to the same as my desktop (Doh) and that seemed to at least get my desktop the way it used to be.
The problem now is the TV. It's cutting off a lot of pixels, and I can get it almost to fit if I enable flat panel scaling and set GPU Scaling Method to "Centered". However, when I restart the X server, it always returns to "Stretched". I've tried saving it from nvidia-settings (nothing seems to happen to the xorg.conf file,) and ala [URL] s have tried to put some version of
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Option "FlatPanelProperties" "DFP-0: Scaling = Centered"
or
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Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Centered"
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I have a Core 2 Duo T9600. I noticed video playing performance has been really bad lately, and videos that used to work fine now stuttered. I would say it started happening 2-3 weeks ago. I discovered the culprit is that the CPU is scaling down to 800Mhz and sticking there. Running cpufreq-info yields:
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I recently installed 10.04 and really like it so far, however I was wondering if it is possible to scale all hypertheading cores at once, currently I am using an applet for each and have to use several clicks to get into the desired powerstate.
I have read that with dual cores you will not have the option to go into different powerstates because it scales all cores at once, however the logical cores that show up with hyperthreading allow each to have a different power state, and will show up as different states if I use cpufreq-info in the terminal, so it seems like it is allowing it.
I know that this has been a frequent discussion post and I have read a large portion of the posts but none of them have fixed this problem for me. My computer seems to default to performance upon reboot (and yes I have waited the 60 seconds it should take to switch to ondemand). I have tried a number of the ideas posted throughout the web but have been unable to set the default upon reboot. Here is my current /etc/init.d/ondemand script:
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### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ondemand
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $all
# Required-Stop:
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When I boot my machine (using a dual core 2ghz CPU) I always find myself out of "performance" mode (which I need), using only 1ghz per core.While this is easily fixable with "sudo cpufreq-set -g performance", I don't seem to be able to do it before having control of the machine. I would like to be able to boot with my CPU at full power.I would prefer to disable whatever is scaling down my CPUs to having to inject cpufreq-set to change governor. Anyone has any hint?I use default Ubuntu but I boot into a KDE4 desktop. But the same issue happens booting into the Gnome desktop.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there an easy way to take control of CPU frequency scaling in 11.04? There use to be an indicator applet but thats gone
View 2 Replies View RelatedThere is a package on my system that won't be removed. How can I tell apt-get not to remove that specific file?
sudo apt-get purge (remove) texlive-lang-cyrillic won't work.
I'm still trying to learn, but seem to be hitting a few walls when it comes to man pages. I don't know where else to look so I hope to get some help here - or at least another idea. I'm trying to learn c++ as well as *nix terminal commands, and I like to make a backup of my compiled program and .c files each time I reach a successful compile (99-100% bug free).
My problem is I like to use an alias instead of a script to backup my work onto a USB. I don't want the hundreds of log files (10K+) copied since I usually delete them anyway.
My alias:
How do I tell cp to ignore the folder '~/work/log' during the backup?
If cp doesn't have such an option, I am open to other ideas, but I would still prefer something that I can alias since I already backup my .bash_aliases file.
if there is a way to blacklist certain packages when updates come around. The reason for this is that I have two repositories that contain Smplayer and Mplayer. But one repository versions of this aren't VDPAU active (but the build is newer).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've updated my 10.04 kernel to 2.6.34 on my Asus Eee PC to fix wireless issues. However, the update manager keeps bugging me to "upgrade" to 2.6.32. How do I tell it to ignore this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am not entirely convinced that my CPU is actually changing frequency as it is meant to. It sometimes changes frequency, but most of the time it is stuck on 800MHz even when doing cpu intensive tasks. Here is information that may or may not be of help:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor: 0
vendor_id: GenuineIntel
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I notice here that it says between 800 and 800, but does that mean it is currently at 800, or can only be 800.