FreeBSD Albert App available for testing
Bernd Machenschalk
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13 Jan 2006 15:30:40 UTC
Topic 190597
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Dear Crunchers!
I just built a (native) FreeBSD App from the new "albert" code and put it on the Beta Test page as a beta package (together with an app_info.xml).
It was built on a FreeBSD 4 system and has been successfully tested on FreeBSD 5 and 6 systems (with the usual COMPAT_FREEBSD4 enabled).
It uses the same CPU detection / SSE code system that's in our Linux App, so it takes advantage of SSE if avaliable.
Happy Crunching!
BM
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FreeBSD Albert App available for testing
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Hi Bernd,
some guys in my team have sucessfully managed the linux client to work on FreeBSD 5.4 & FreeBSD 6.0 (both for x86 CPUs).
Currently four FreeBSD Boxes are using it:
http://einsteinathome.org/host/504890/tasks
http://einsteinathome.org/host/510382/tasks
http://einsteinathome.org/host/458402/tasks
http://einsteinathome.org/host/506419/tasks
The last one was the one, used to try out how it could work, the client errors are caused by this try&error stuff. So don't be alarmed by these errors. There should be sone 5.4 box too, but I do not currently know which one it is.
There is a tar-bzip2 archive which contains a README in German (sic) language which shows the steps you need to make it run at www.cmds.tk
So there are two ways to get these boxes run :-)
RE: Hi Bernd, some guys in
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for all crunchers its easier to see the show_host_detail.php like
http://einsteinathome.org/host/504890
http://einsteinathome.org/host/510382
http://einsteinathome.org/host/458402
http://einsteinathome.org/host/506419
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At Last! :) But please make
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At Last! :)
But please make it avaliable also for x86-64 architecture, since most freebsd servers under my own care will be transferred to 64bit.
Especially my desktop also.
I would be happy to see and use einstein@my 64bit home ;D
as for now - my other server is 32bit and its running einstein@home flawlessly - you can see it here:
http://einsteinathome.org/host/520076
It's a little problem with
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It's a little problem with albert for freebsd (or with seti - I dont know).
I found out that both were running on my freebsd box (with load of 2.0), but i've got 1 proc, 1 core machine.
When i watched it last time, it was only albert..
so maybe it can't be suspended by boinc client or something??
It operates without trouble.
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It operates without trouble.
I got my first credits from
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I got my first credits from this client :)
Time to turn it into a port
Ok, I've submitted a port PR.
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Ok, I've submitted a port PR. It can be viewed at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93643
I run both seti and einstein
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I run both seti and einstein on freebsd now and also experienced that boinc doesn't really suspend/terminate processes, it only nices and unnices them.
From the nice man page it turns out that only root can unnice a process, and boinc runs as user boinc (if installed from ports), so its not going to work properly I guess.
Seems to work fine on
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Seems to work fine on 6.1/i386 under boinc 5.2.15. Will shepherd rene's port into the ports collection after the freeze is over.
Oh, noticed that Time to
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Oh, noticed that Time to completion in boinc_gui is always too high, for example now I have 78% done, 77 minutes of wall time, and Time to completion is predicted to be 57 minutes. Simple math says 20 minutes. Is this boinc-client or einstein bug?