[Release: Folding@Home Docker]

On 4/22/2020 at 9:48 PM, draeh said:

 

Did you ever discover how to correct this?

 

I installed the docker container today and this is happening on every WU.

 

EDIT: They eventually clean themselves up. I did nothing and after a few more WU it was able to clean up after itself.

 

Nope.

Actually I stopped looking at F@H logs altogether

It's working and crunching data and that's what matters.

[Unraid OS version 6.9 beta1 available]

Just wanted to give my thanks to the team for the effort in 6.9! I'm patiently waiting to 5.x to leverage the new HW.

I very much appreciate you working on this even in the general stress situation we're in...

 

Keep up the good work!!

[Release: Folding@Home Docker]

Hi!

 

Since a few weeks ago I'm running the docker for F@H and I got some issues... the first probably related to the docker, the second probably not: any help on the matter is appreciated!

1. Impossible to cleanup work folders

From time to time F@H has trouble cleaning up the work folder since a "fuse" file there and it's not removable by the application...

 

Here the error:

15:52:51:WU00:FS00:Cleaning up
15:52:51:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Failed to remove directory './work/00': boost::filesystem::remove: Directory not empty: "./work/00"

Here the content:

# v work/00/
total 6868
-rw-r--r-- 0 nobody users 7029760 Apr  9 17:36 .fuse_hidden0000a8d90000004b

Here the "lsof":

# lsof work/00/.fuse_hidden0000a8d90000004b 
COMMAND     PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF              NODE NAME
FAHCoreWr 11585 nobody    8r   REG   0,41  7029760 10977524093294902 work/00/.fuse_hidden0000a8d90000004b
FahCore_a 11589 nobody    8r   REG   0,41  7029760 10977524093294902 work/00/.fuse_hidden0000a8d90000004b

I can manually force the deletion but it would be preferable that the system was able to do it autonomously...

Any idea?

 

2. WU not compatible with CPU?

At the beginning I used to get a lot of "No WUs available for this configuration" and some "gromacs" errors...

 Here an example of the "gromacs" error:

05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:-------------------------------------------------------
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:Program GROMACS, VERSION 5.0.4-20191026-456f0d636-unknown
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:Source code file: /host/debian-stable-64bit-core-a7-avx-release/gromacs-core/build/gromacs/src/gromacs/mdlib/domdec.c, line: 6902
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:Fatal error:
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:There is no domain decomposition for 20 ranks that is compatible with the given box and a minimum cell size of 1.4227 nm
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:Change the number of ranks or mdrun option -rcon or -dds or your LINCS settings
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:Look in the log file for details on the domain decomposition
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
05:39:44:WU01:FS00:0xa7:ERROR:-------------------------------------------------------

After a not-so-deep research on various forums I got that the number of available "cpus" can determine the ability of the application to organize the job... also there was some comment about using only multipliers of 6 for this "cpus" parameter... maybe I misunderstood something but I applied that workaround and limited the numbers of "cpus" that F@H can use directly from within the config.xml:

<config>
  <!-- Folding Slot Configuration -->
  <cpus v='18'/>

  <!-- Slot Control -->
  <power v='FULL'/>

  <!-- User Information -->
  <passkey v='***********'/>
  <team v='***********'/>
  <user v='***********'/>

  <!-- Folding Slots -->
  <slot id='0' type='CPU'/>
  <!-- slot id='1' type='GPU'/ -->
</config>

This enabled me to start folding.

 

A note: the UnRaid machine is an AMD 3950X (16C/32T).

Another note: I also have a "service" GPU (GeForce GT 730) that never received a job so I disabled it to remove it from the UI.

Can anyone confirm this behavior?