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FahSMP shuts down at 18:35 every day??

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orion456

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Folding SMP shuts down every day in two rigs at about 18:35 and declares "Folding@Home Client Shutdown at user request".

I have turned off all the automatic updates, virus checks, and background programs running that I know about, but it is still happening. Any theories?
 
Windows SMP quits when it loses network connectivity but I've never seen it write "Folding@Home Client Shutdown at user request" when it does so. Usually it just stops processing but continues to write auto sends to the log periodically. Losing the IP lease and being assigned a new address would stop Win SMP on XP and may even cause it to shutdown gracefully. It would cause the failure at the same time.
Have you seen the messages written to the console @ 18:35? Even on -verbosity 9 many important messages aren't written to the log by the SMP client.
 
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Nothing was written to the console, it just appears in the log file. Both machines are networked through the same router and both quit within minutes of each other, both saying the user shut it down.

I'm not sure how to set verbosity -9 on SMP.
 
Add -verbosity 9 it to the the target line of the shortcut used to launch the client. If you have it running as a service (not supported) add it to the ImagePath key.
If the user logs off, Win SMP will quit or if a different user logs on, same thing.

Everything written to the log is written to the console and then some.
From the log:

Code:
[18:33:53] Project: 2652 (Run 0, Clone 236, Gen 23)
[18:33:53] 
[18:33:53] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[18:33:53] Entering M.D.
[18:34:00] Protein: Protein
[18:34:00] WritProtein: ProteinExtra SSE boost OK.
[18:34:00] 
[18:34:00] Extra SSE boost OK.
[18:34:00] Writing local files
[18:34:00] Completed 0 out of 1000000 steps  (0 percent)
[18:44:14] Writing local files
[18:44:14] Completed 10000 out of 1000000 steps  (1 percent)
[18:54:27] Writing local files
[18:54:27] Completed 20000 out of 1000000 steps  (2 percent)
[18:56:18] CoreStatus = 0 (0)
[18:56:18] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x0
[18:56:18] - Attempting to download new core...

From the console:
Code:
[18:33:53] Project: 2652 (Run 0, Clone 236, Gen 23)
[18:33:53] 
[18:33:53] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[18:33:53] Entering M.D.
NNODES=4, MYRANK=2, HOSTNAME=chasr-linux
NNODES=4, MYRANK=1, HOSTNAME=chasr-linux
NNODES=4, MYRANK=3, HOSTNAME=chasr-linux
NNODES=4, MYRANK=0, HOSTNAME=chasr-linux
NODEID=0 argc=15
NODEID=1 argc=15
NODEID=2 argc=15
NODEID=3 argc=15
      Written by David van der Spoel, Erik Lindahl, Berk Hess, and others.
       Copyright (c) 1991-2000, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
             Copyright (c) 2001-2004, The GROMACS development team,
            check out http://www.gromacs.org for more information.

        This inclusion of Gromacs code in the Folding@Home Core is under
        a special license (see http://folding.stanford.edu/gromacs.html)
         specially granted to Stanford by the copyright holders. If you
          are interested in using Gromacs, visit www.gromacs.org where
                you can download a free version of Gromacs under
         the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published
       by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
                     or (at your option) any later version.

starting mdrun 'Protein'
1000000 steps,   2000.0 ps.

[18:34:00] Protein: Protein
[18:34:00] WritProtein: ProteinExtra SSE boost OK.
[18:34:00] 
[18:34:00] Extra SSE boost OK.
[18:34:00] Writing local files
[18:34:00] Completed 0 out of 1000000 steps  (0 percent)
[18:44:14] Writing local files
[18:44:14] Completed 10000 out of 1000000 steps  (1 percent)
[18:54:27] Writing local files
[18:54:27] Completed 20000 out of 1000000 steps  (2 percent)
[0]0:Return code = 0, signaled with Segmentation fault
[0]1:Return code = 0, signaled with Segmentation fault
[0]2:Return code = 0, signaled with Segmentation fault
[0]3:Return code = 0, signaled with Segmentation fault
[18:56:18] CoreStatus = 0 (0)
[18:56:18] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x0
[18:56:18] - Attempting to download new core...

Of course if you have it running as a service, you wouldn't be able to see the console. What OS are you using and is it installed as a service?
 
I run it from a DOS box on WinXP. I'm the only user.

I will add the command line flag tomorrow.
 
can you configure them for static ip or do they need to be dhcp? It might help as per chasr's thought on ip lease. I haven't seen the issue tho since all my farm is config'ed for static ip except my laptop.
 
I've never seen that either. I remember I saw that in the log when I quit folding (but I think it's from uni cpu client tho) the only thought I have (which is in line w/ chasr) is ip changed (btw, is it wire or wireless?), and/or user log on/off.
 
Just a thought....if my router reassigned an IP every 24 hours, then that might be the reason for the sudden shut down? I think the LinkSys router does that.
 
if my router reassigned an IP every 24 hours, then that might be the reason for the sudden shut down = Losing the IP lease and being assigned a new address would stop Win SMP on XP and may even cause it to shutdown gracefully
 
I couldn't see how to stop the reassignments so I just put the router on static IP and we will see tomorrow if that solves the problem. If not I will try setting each machine to be static itself, but thats a pain very time I want to move something.
 
Ok, setting it to static IP didn't work at all.

I have set dhcp to disabled. I'm not really sure what that does anyway and the browsers seem to be working. Have to wait over the weekend to see if that fixes the problem.
 
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