Folding rig uptime?

[Pickster]

Just a little query. I'm wondering how long people have run a rig folding at 100% without have to reboot, fiddle.... do anything to it.

As some of you know, out of necessity I have had to leave my folding rig folding away at my parents house while I was off on my 'adventure' (which is still on going, I'm just taking a small break lol-ish).

It has been plugged in and left folding 100% on two Quad core cpus (basicly two C2D quads) and a 460 GTX for around 35 days.

No keyboard or mouse was plugged in, neither was a monitor. It was set to automatically run FAH on boot should it need a restart, and I checked EOC stats to make sure it was still calling in the work units.

Not once did I have to do an E.T. (and phone home for those that didn't get it) to get it rebooted.

I have just a few moments ago pluged in a monitor and mouse to make sure it's all ok and check temps, which are warm but not alarming.

I probably shouldn't be but I am pretty impressed at the stability of it all. OK the CPU's are not overclocked at all and the 460 is only at a modest 800mhz core. It's also kept it's wireless signal nicely, something that causes me problems at times on other PCs but in fairness that could be more router related.

So anyway, for the sake of repeating myself incase you nodded off in that wall of text, what is the longest you have had a rig up and folding unmanned? I know some of the older team members have rigs that are fired up and 'forgotten'.

 

[CPMFW]

i´ve started folding on the 25th of june...
it wasn´t switched off since

 

[dipzy]

i fold nearly everyday from 10am to 10pm. Never folded 24/7 as I'm not allowed to keep rigs on for that long. But recent small Wu's mean i can get through quite a few of them each day

 

[leejc73]

I've had problems with one of my rigs which has needed rebooting a few times, no real indication why either just locks up that's a C2Q with a GTX 280 and a 460 in. My main rig has been faultless since I updated the Hyper X ssd firmware, but the small WU 8004/8014 are doing my nut in.

 

[jits h]

My HP Workstation folder has been folding 24/7 since march. Turned it off once just to give it a good clean, and apply new thermal paste, other than that, it's been running continuously

 

[yassarikhan786]

Well the most I've folded unmanned is 5 days without turning the client off. However when I game I turn off both clients, which is why my PPD falls significantly when I have time off. When I go back to uni in September, my PPD should go back up, since I will be studying

 

[Josh Weston]

Studying? At uni? I wasn't aware you had time to study inbetween drinking
I've had my desktop folding 24/7 for months, with no real issues. Just stay away from the 'bubbles' screen saver -_-

 

[yassarikhan786]

I don't drink . I have taken your advice regarding the 'bubbles' screensaver, it was tempting, but I resisted, lol.

 

[Pickster]

My HP Workstation folder has been folding 24/7 since march. Turned it off once just to give it a good clean, and apply new thermal paste, other than that, it's been running continuously

Like I said, I shouldn't be suprised, but it still seems crazy to me that these things can be on for so long AND running at 100%.

It probably has something to do part of my brain being stuck back in the Windows 95/98 days.

As for my main rig, its been going for over 24 hours now with no sign of instability, but previously it took about 48 hours to throw a blue screen. So in a couple more days I will see if it's still going.

I have a few ideas. It could be the power supply, it is only a 650 watt, but I'm pretty sure it actually has some headroom left so that's an outside thought. Another thought is heat, it is quite toasty in there.

But it could all be down to my old PCI Wireless card. It has been acting rather funky. Currently the rig is hooked up over ethernet. If it has been stable for 72 hours, I'm going to crank the clocks back up (if I'm still at my parents) and keep it hooked up via ethernet. See if ol' blue-ie comes back.

If not, out goes the wireless card and I guess I'll have to grab a USB wireless jobbie.

Oh the fun and games of random errors.

 

[aicjofs]

I've had a good 2 months. I'm not a good specimen as I only fold one month per year(and sucked into this contest for a second ). 1 power outage I'm not counting. When I folded with Steve over at OCXtreme, I amazingly has zero crashes for 4 months on all systems, this one hasnt been as good.

Asrock Z68, and 3770K @ 4.8Ghz water cooled - Running linux in VM. 1 crash in 2 months when I forgot to turn on the AC before I left for work house was like 83F when I got back.

Asrock Z68, and 2600K @ 4.5Ghz, mid-low range air cooling - Running linux in VM. 6 or 7 crashes in 2 months. I'm pushing it hard for the cooling it has.

Asus low end board, and 1090T at 3.6Ghz, mid-low air - my file server so I didn't push things -Running linux in VM. 0 Crashes in 2 months.

Asus maximus formula, Q6600 at 3.2Ghz, and Nvidia 240GT(stock, this little card was the MVP for me, it just sits there cranking out units at a respectable PPD for a low end card and doesn't fuss), low end air, HTPC no real case ventilation - 1 crash in 2 months when I tried 3.3Ghz, and went back to 3.2 afterwards.

Fujitsu laptop, i5-2410M 2.3Ghz - 0 crashes in 2 months.

table top PC laying on a desk for this folding competition only so the 2600K and 3770K can do bigadv without GPU stealing CPU cycles - MSI MS-7100, 3800+ at stock(not folding) and 1 Galaxy 570GTX(at stock since PCIe slots are so close) and 460GTX(at 850) - 0 crashes in 1 month, but 3 times one GPU would drop to 2D clocks and need a full reboot.

The kids PC's are i5-2400S at 2.5Ghz - 0 Crashes.

To sum it up things running stock or just barely over were stable and I bet I could run them forever. Had a few problems with multiGPU folding. 2600K was the only real battle and it's just in a bad case for bring in fresh air, and not great cooling, it was me pushing it and I knew it.

 

[zorin1]

I am on vacation and left two machine folding since Sunday. I don't know if both are still running but by looking at my points they seem to be. One of machines was crashing every day. I think I had it to much over clocked and the memory could not handle it. Oh well at least it is folding. I wonder if I have hit 2M points yet.

Matt

 

[Josh Weston]

Yes, yes you have Congrats!

 

[yassarikhan786]

Congrats Matt

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

I don't drink . I have taken your advice regarding the 'bubbles' screensaver, it was tempting, but I resisted, lol.

A fellow non-drinker

As for my uptime, I have an E-350 rig, two FX-8120 + GT430 OC rigs and a 1090T + 2x 5870 rig. I can't get any work units for ATI chips anymore, unfortunately. I leave the 1090T rig folding all the time as it's silent with a D14, but the FX rigs have Excals sat on top of the stock coolers (one Excal broke on me and I can't get a refund, but had three so I'm okay, but still, £12 gone...) so I turn off one of them at night to help parents sleep and the E-350 is almost non-existant it's so small so I leave it on 24/7 too. The E-350 is actually my main gaming rig. I don't really play demanding games anymore to need the 5870s. I did try bitcoin mining on them but that kept breaking Windoze. Waiting for Gaben to port steam to Linux I usually play games like Limbo, Geometry Wars and The Dream Machine (Indie).

 

[Pickster]

It's it typical, I start this thread with a positive, and the V7 client on my folding rig tripps over its self.

The PC hadn't crashed though as the GPU client was still going and all I had to do was clear the old client out of task manager and restart V7 control.

That PC is dealing with the heat nicely and its very quiet too. I never thought I'd be impressed with a HP computer.