overclockix and HT

Will overclockix be able to take advantage of HT?
Just asking cause I know the Mobo has to be HT
ready, but i'm unsure about the OS.

Running a CD-rom would be cheaper than
a HDD. Unless I ran smaller/older HDDs.

Yes it will do HT, however you have to set up two different directories to do such for example:

#!/bin/sh
FoldDir=/home/username/fah
cd $FoldDir
su -c "./FAH4Console-Linux.exe -advmethods -forcesse - verbosity 9 > FAHlog.txt &"
echo "Starting FAH service..."
FoldDir2=/home/username/fah2
cd $FoldDir2
su -c "./FAH4Console-Linux.exe -advmethods -forcesse -verbosity 9 > FAHlog.txt &"
echo "Starting FAH service2..."

Hope that helps

My farm is using a mix of XP Pro, Mandrake 9.2 and hddless Overclockix boxes. I don't go live with my 2.8C until Wed, but it will be a hddless overclockix box (cd-rom and a floppy to store your desktop config etc so if you have to reboot, you won't have to start from scratch all over again.)....

I'll include pics of my farm soon.........

Hooah!

There is actually a script located in /Knoppix/usr/local/bin called foldstartup and contains the following:

#!/bin/sh
FoldDir=/home/knoppix/fold
FoldDir2=/home/knoppix/fold2
mkdir /home/knoppix
mkdir /home/knoppix/seti >/dev/null &
mkdir /home/knoppix/prime > /dev/null &
if [ -d $FoldDir2/work ]
then
echo "Client directory found. Starting F@H service on cpu1..."
cd $FoldDir2
su -c "./FAH4Console.exe -advmethods -forcesse > $FoldDir2/FAHlog.txt &" knoppix
else
cd $FoldDir
fi
if [ -d $FoldDir/work ]
then
cd $FoldDir
echo "Client directory found. Starting F@H service on cpu2..."
su -c "./FAH4Console.exe -advmethods -forcesse > $FoldDir/FAHlog.txt &" knoppix
exit
else
echo "Generating DC client directories and copying default configs..."
mkdir $FoldDir
cd $FoldDir
echo "Attempting to download DC clients..."
echo "Timeout set to 60 seconds..."
cp /usr/local/bin/client.cfg $FoldDir
wget -T 60 http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH4Console-Linux.exe
cp /usr/local/bin/user_info.sah /home/knoppix/seti
cp /usr/local/bin/setiathome /home/knoppix/seti
fi
if [ -f $FoldDir/FAH4Console-Linux.exe ]
then
mv $FoldDir/FAH4Console-Linux.exe $FoldDir/FAH4Console.exe
chmod +x $FoldDir/FAH4Console.exe
else
echo "Unable to download DC clients."
echo "Server may be down, link has changed, or you may need to configure your net connection manually."
echo "Using a back-up client stored on CD."
cp /usr/local/bin/FAH4Console.exe $FoldDir
fi
chown -R knoppix:knoppix /home/knoppix/fold
#chown -R knoppix:knoppix /home/knoppix/fold2
chown -R knoppix:knoppix /home/knoppix/seti
chown -R knoppix:knoppix /home/knoppix/prime
#if [ -f /dev/cpu1 ]
#then
#mkdir $FoldDir2
#cp /usr/local/bin/FAH4Console.exe $FoldDir2
#cp /usr/local/bin/client.cfg2 $FoldDir2/client.cfg
#echo "Starting F@H service on cpu1..."
#echo "Starting F@H service on cpu2..."
#su -c "./FAH4Console.exe -advmethods -forceasm -forcesse > $FoldDir/FAHlog.txt &" knoppix
#cd $FoldDir2
#su -c "./FAH4Console.exe -advmethods -forceasm -forcesse > $FoldDir2/FAHlog.txt &" knoppix
#else
echo "Starting F@H service..."
cd $FoldDir
if [ -f $FoldDir/FAH4Console.exe ]
then
su -c "./FAH4Console.exe -advmethods -forcesse > $FoldDir/FAHlog.txt &" knoppix
else
cp /usr/local/bin/FAH4Colsole.exe $FoldDir
su -c "./FAH4Console.exe -advmethods -forcesse > $FoldDir/FAHlog.txt &" knoppix
fi

This should get HT working under Overclockix. Remember, that on a hddless box, all Overclockix files reside in ram and you cannot change any of the scripts unless you install Overclockix to a hdd.

You should at least have a floppy where you can create a persistant Knoppix home directory. If you get Samba running (LISa daemon will need to be activated), it is posible to save to a SMB point (I haven't gotten that far yet).

Hope that helps.

Hooah

Yeah, let me know how it works out on an HT P4. It's got an older SMP kernel that doesn't have all the newest improvments for HT in Linux. So I'm interested to know how it works out.

There's a script called makefold2 which will create a second folding directory.

The foldon, cfgfold, foldoff, and viewfold scripts should all work one two folding clients just as well as they work on one folding client.