Posts by Augustine |
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Message boards :
Unix/Linux :
Computation Error...
(Message 11647)
Posted 255 days ago by Augustine Don't know if this covers your errors or not but here is a list of Boinc errors: These don't apply to the application error codes. Then, for Linux, one needs to look into errno.h and its included header files. HTH |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Project out of work intermittently
(Message 9272)
Posted 571 days ago by Augustine I apologize for my poor choice of words. Peace. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Project out of work intermittently
(Message 9269)
Posted 572 days ago by Augustine Regarding avoiding slamming a project. I do something similar with SETI. Every Tuesday they have a 4 hour outage, followed by 4 to 8 hours of being slammed due to the backlog (they are the busiest BOINC project by a large margin). Actually, according to the SETI administrators, they are slammed because volunteers are clicking "project update" manually. IOW, people trying to micro-manage the BOINC client. What the BOINC client will do in the scenario above is to back off for an incrementally longer period, from a few minutes to several hours, giving the SETI servers a break. And it is not necessary to refresh the project if you set the option "Maintain enough work for an additional x days" to a couple of days. IOW, educate yourself about BOINC. It's a pretty good distributed computing platform that scales to tens if not hundreds of hosts without requiring the manual intervention that some are so obsessed about. HTH |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Project out of work intermittently
(Message 9260)
Posted 572 days ago by Augustine I have 17 computers currently crunching for different Boinc projects, not micro-managing them is not an option. But if doing things your way works for you, I just wish I had the freedom. I Have been crunching since 1999 and feel the need to do it the way it works for me. I have 12 hosts at the moment, but I've had over 20 at one time, crunching for 3 to 30+ projects, some of which I have access to only seldom. In the 10+ years that I've been crunching, BOINC has finally given me the freedom to let the client sort out any issues. With BAM, I don't really see the need to have access to the hosts, except to update the BOINC client. If a BOINC project dries up, the BOINC client will schedule other projects according to the priorities that I defined. If a BOINC server is not responsive, the BOINC client automatically backs off for a day. Indeed, you're trying to second guess the BOINC client and ignoring all the work that its developers put into it to do away with human intervention. In all likelihood, you're doing more harm than good. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Project out of work intermittently
(Message 9257)
Posted 573 days ago by Augustine I did the Suspend too but did it because I read that if you let it keep connecting it is building up Long Term Debt that is then 'owed' to a project. Meaning all your cycles will be spent here and not your other projects. When I come back I want to do it slowly, not slam them with requests and returns. All this micromanaging of BOINC is completely unnecessary. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Project out of work intermittently
(Message 9245)
Posted 574 days ago by Augustine Honestly, why do trolls come barking to project forums about lack of work when there are tens of other BOINC projects to subscribe to? I guess that I answered my own question... |
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Message boards :
Malaria Control :
Optimizer growing up
(Message 8041)
Posted 704 days ago by Augustine I believe Java is installed by the Malaria Control application. You just need to ensure you have 'install' rights... How does this play with BOINC 6.0's new protection scheme using its own users? TIA |
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Message boards :
Unix/Linux :
Computation Error...
(Message 8035)
Posted 704 days ago by Augustine You were correct. The permissions of the executable did not have the execute bit set. I wonder why all the other projects worked. When BOINC downloads a new binary does it set the permissions on it? I have never manually changed it. Hrmm.. Did flipping the X bit do it? If not, it could be that your system lacks some libraries. Try running the command LDD on the application. HTH |
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Message boards :
Malaria Control :
Optimizer growing up
(Message 7921)
Posted 718 days ago by Augustine I also noticed, that your client seems not to report back the app-version.. so something must be fishy there ...:) Unlike the other systems, it's running a beta client, 6.3.10. The WUs that succeeded do report the application version, but not those that failed. So maybe that's why. Thanks. |
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Message boards :
Malaria Control :
Optimizer growing up
(Message 7912)
Posted 718 days ago by Augustine if you compare "cpu time" on the pages above, with the actual time it took, and take into account the trottling, it seems ok to me.. OK. I did have one system error out most WUs though... TIA |