problems with client in linux

[frontwards]

alright, i'm new to the SoB project, and forums, and i have a question. if no one minds me asking a question on my first post.

i've been running SoB on my computer for about 14 days. i'm running both windows and linux on my computer, and recently i have been in the linux side more often, and it sucks knowing that my computer isn't accomplishing anything for SoB. so today i downloaded the linux client and ran it, but i'm having problems. this is what happens...



[Tue Oct 5 18:02:46 2004] client process [v1.2.5] invoked
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:47 2004] priority set to idle
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:47 2004] connecting to server
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] logging into server
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] requesting a block
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] got proth test from server (k=10223, n=7039961)
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] server packet cached to disk
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ detected. Enabling cpu specific optimizations.


it just stops after that. i restarted it about five minutes later and got this...



[Tue Oct 5 18:19:39 2004] client process [v1.2.5] invoked
[Tue Oct 5 18:19:39 2004] priority set to idle
[Tue Oct 5 18:19:39 2004] got k and n from cache
[Tue Oct 5 18:19:39 2004] AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ detected. Enabling cpu specific optimizations.
[Tue Oct 5 18:19:40 2004] restarting proth test from cache (k=10223, n=7039961) [0.0%]


that was 7 minutes ago and there doesn't seem to be any new activity. does anyone have a clue to what is wrong?

[Alien88]

Originally posted by frontwards
alright, i'm new to the SoB project, and forums, and i have a question. if no one minds me asking a question on my first post.

i've been running SoB on my computer for about 14 days. i'm running both windows and linux on my computer, and recently i have been in the linux side more often, and it sucks knowing that my computer isn't accomplishing anything for SoB. so today i downloaded the linux client and ran it, but i'm having problems. this is what happens...



[Tue Oct 5 18:02:46 2004] client process [v1.2.5] invoked
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:47 2004] priority set to idle
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:47 2004] connecting to server
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] logging into server
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] requesting a block
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] got proth test from server (k=10223, n=7039961)
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] server packet cached to disk
[Tue Oct 5 18:02:51 2004] AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ detected. Enabling cpu specific optimizations.


it just stops after that. i restarted it about five minutes later and got this...



[Tue Oct 5 18:19:39 2004] client process [v1.2.5] invoked
[Tue Oct 5 18:19:39 2004] priority set to idle
[Tue Oct 5 18:19:39 2004] got k and n from cache
[Tue Oct 5 18:19:39 2004] AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ detected. Enabling cpu specific optimizations.
[Tue Oct 5 18:19:40 2004] restarting proth test from cache (k=10223, n=7039961) [0.0%]


that was 7 minutes ago and there doesn't seem to be any new activity. does anyone have a clue to what is wrong?

You're too impatient :) wait longer and you'll see the status printed to the log file..

[frontwards]

maybe i was being a little impatient, but the sclient.log file wasn't showing the n.high = xxxx line, so i was a little worried. i think it is working now though.

[pixl97]

You should really upgrade to the new SSE2 enabled client for linux in this thread, http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=7599
On the Opteron I saw a 66% improvement in my scores. Amazingly on the P4 Its closer to 200% :eek: , but...

Alien88, thats amost 17 minutes without a status update. On a 1600MHz opteron (242) it should only take about 7 minutes to process a block, it seems to be taking way too long to finish a block, frontwards, you may want to make sure that you only have 1 copy running, or that another process is not taking up cpu time.

pixl97

[cryptonomicon]

Hi,

I had the same "problem" as a linux newbie.

The logs are not updated for 15 minutes on an athlon64 3200+, and you think it`s not doing anything - so you stop it, or worse start a second copy in parallel.

SB2.0 does a block in 9 minutes, which is great .

[frontwards]

Originally posted by pixl97
You should really upgrade to the new SSE2 enabled client for linux in this thread, http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=7599
On the Opteron I saw a 66% improvement in my scores. Amazingly on the P4 Its closer to 200% :eek: , but...

Alien88, thats amost 17 minutes without a status update. On a 1600MHz opteron (242) it should only take about 7 minutes to process a block, it seems to be taking way too long to finish a block, frontwards, you may want to make sure that you only have 1 copy running, or that another process is not taking up cpu time.

pixl97

i didn't know that the SSE2 enabled client had been released for linux. thanks for telling me. i'll be sure to upgrade when i get home.

i've got it working now. the problem was that i had more than one copy running. i'm a linux newbie, so i guess i'll blame the mistake on that. thanks for the replies.