Crunching on Linux Tips, Tricks, and Useful Hints

[blindfitter]

@Aquinus thanks for advice , but i am complete novice at Linux and crunching.

i believe i'm running 4.15.2-041502-generic Kernel ?

i used @infrared coding to get the sensors working. to which they appear correct, cpu usage and temperature,

cd /tmp/
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.15/linux-image-4.15.0-041500-lowlatency_4.15.0-041500.201802011154_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.15/linux-headers-4.15.0-041500-lowlatency_4.15.0-041500.201802011154_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.15/linux-headers-4.15.0-041500_4.15.0-041500.201802011154_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Should i have changed: the highlighted and underlined to be equal to my current kernel 4.15.2-041502-generic_4.15.2-041502.?????????????_amd64.deb

If its wrong, can you advise the way to correct it, thanks in advance.

 

[infrared]

I think you're fine, you're already on an even newer kernel so if uname -r is still saying 4.15.2 then this one didn't install. Apologies on the confusion of the low latency kernel, for some reason the generic wouldn't install on my machine and the low latency worked fine so I wrongly assumed that was the correct one for ryzen. Although it doesn't appear to have reduced my wcg output so the difference must be pretty minimal.

I need to install that psensor program, looks a lot more useful than getting a 1 time reading through the terminal.

 

[blindfitter]

@infrared thanks for update, the 4.15.0 LL is installed and in the grub, but still using 4.15.2 generic

thanks again , back to over clocking..

 

[phill]

I was just going to mention you David in this thread... So glad you found it and I saw it!! How's that Ryzen system doing for you now?? @blindfitter

 

[PaulieG]

I'm considering moving a couple of my crunchers to one of the current "user friendly" distro iterations. Does WCG generally play nice with Linux? Any difference in overall workload? Any distro work particularly well with WCG?

 

[mstenholm]

I only have experience with Ubuntu but I know that Mint has been used by others. Works like a charm. You save the Windows overhead and from time to time there are projects that really favours Linux. Go for it.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

I'm considering moving a couple of my crunchers to one of the current "user friendly" distro iterations. Does WCG generally play nice with Linux? Any difference in overall workload? Any distro work particularly well with WCG?

My (thus far brief) experiment with CrunchingOnLinux also went well, and was also on Mint. And also also on X58. :-/ It's my only data point, though, so can't compare to other distros, or even Windows (yet).

 

[thebluebumblebee]

But the benefit of running Linux is no where near where it was, and even our former captain, who was a promoter of using Linux, has switched almost everything to Windows. Managing multiple Linux boxes is harder than it used to be because running Teamviewer is no longer free.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Managing multiple Linux boxes is harder than it used to be because running Teamviewer is no longer free.

Aw, really? Dang; time to bone up on SSH.

 

[Nordic]

Last time I was running linux for WCG, I used Debain with apt-build for maximum performance. It really doesn't matter which variety of linux you run as long as you use the most up to date kernal. I put all my tricks for enhancing linux performance in the OP too.