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Shaktai · Jan 25, 2003, 01:18 PM

M0tionBlur has created a new Monitoring program for FAH that provides a nice feedback interface for the CLI clients (or GUI).

v1.0 was posted yesterday. It is not yet feature complete, but seems to be functional and stable.

Read more about it and provide feedback in this thread in the Folding@Home forums.

http://forum.folding-community.org/v...?p=24804#24804

I think it is worth checking out, and it is nice to see someone making the effort in the Mac Community.

Osirisis · Jan 25, 2003, 03:10 PM

Originally posted by Shaktai:
M0tionBlur has created a new Monitoring program for FAH that provides a nice feedback interface for the CLI clients (or GUI).

v1.0 was posted yesterday. It is not yet feature complete, but seems to be functional and stable.

Read more about it and provide feedback in this thread in the Folding@Home forums.

http://forum.folding-community.org/v...?p=24804#24804

I think it is worth checking out, and it is nice to see someone making the effort in the Mac Community.

Looks nice... Wonder how it's CPU usage compares to the visual monitors. I was watching it vary from about 2.7%-8.1% using top. Not sure I want to lose all that CPU power over time

Shaktai · Feb 9, 2003, 07:03 PM

motionblur has released v 1.0b6. This is an improvement and one of its features is that you can vary the frequency of updates from 1-60 seconds. At 60 seconds it tends to average less then 1% overhead. The nice thing is you don't need to leave it running all the time. You can start it up to do a quick check on progress and then quit it, or if you want to get an average frame time or estimated time of completion, for a particular protein, set the update frequency to 60 seconds and then let it run for an hour or two. That will provide a good average and steal very few CPU cycles. The original version updated constantly and that is why its overhead was so high.

Latest version can be download here:
http://homepage.mac.com/m0tionblur/FileSharing1.html

Scotttheking · Feb 9, 2003, 09:28 PM

Bugs: Click on the folding app as the log file, crashes the app.
Launch again, crashes.
Launch again. Mac freezes.

Shaktai · Feb 9, 2003, 11:42 PM

Guess that is why it is still beta. Guess it is also important to click on the log file in the work folder and not the app.

Scotttheking · Feb 9, 2003, 11:49 PM

Originally posted by Shaktai:
Guess that is why it is still beta. Guess it is also important to click on the log file in the work folder and not the app.

Hey, I was tired and distracted when I did it.
It's too bad there's no simple way to monitor every client on this network.
I've got 3 OSes (4 if you count different versions of windows) and it'd be neat to have one central place to monitor them. But a bunch of network shares is not my idea of fun. Especially not 10 of them. There is a better way, but it requires a syslog type daemon and broadcasting (or could it piggyback on?). And that's complex. But it'd be sweet! Hmm. Rambling. I'll shutup and post more tomorrow when I'm awake.

Shaktai · Feb 10, 2003, 12:11 AM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:
It's too bad there's no simple way to monitor every client on this network.
I've got 3 OSes (4 if you count different versions of windows) and it'd be neat to have one central place to monitor them.

Yeah I agree. I can get my macs to register on the Windows network via Rendezvous, but for some reason can't long into them. Been wanting to try to see if kdfold or electron microsope could monitor the mac aps too. MotionBlur plans to eventually expand his ap so that a single instance can monitor multiple computers. It would be nice to have one app that could monitor mulitple OS's as well.