Message boards : BOINC Manager : Which file runs the experiment?
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Send message Joined: 29 Dec 07 Posts: 2 |
If this is the wrong forum then I apologise. I (personally) don't find it easy to find my way around this website. I am attempting to run the Climate Change Experiment but cannot find the relavant forum. I downloaded BOINC yesterday (28/12/07) and it seemed to be running OK. Today I went to look and found it had stopped and was displaying the following messages: 29-Dec-2007 11:29:10 [---] Resuming network activity 29-Dec-2007 11:29:15 [climateprediction.net] Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 29-Dec-2007 11:29:37 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 29-Dec-2007 11:29:38 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 29-Dec-2007 11:29:40 [climateprediction.net] Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 29-Dec-2007 11:30:40 [climateprediction.net] Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 29-Dec-2007 11:31:01 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 29-Dec-2007 11:31:02 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 29-Dec-2007 11:31:05 [climateprediction.net] Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 29-Dec-2007 11:32:06 [climateprediction.net] Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks I thought that I would re-start it and so suspended the two screens and then exited the program. I then would have restarted BOINC but found there is a selection of .exe files in the BOINC directory: Boinc.exe; Boincmmd.exe Boincmgr.exe Boinctray.exe I would try each one in turn to see what happens but am concerned that if I click on the wrong one then I could cause problems. Which one will restart the experiment |
Send message Joined: 30 Oct 05 Posts: 1239 |
When you installed, the installer should have put a link called "BOINC Manager" in the start menu. But if you want to start it from one of the exe files, you'd want to start boincmgr.exe. That in turn will automagically start boinc.exe. Kathryn :o) |
Send message Joined: 13 May 07 Posts: 18 |
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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15542 |
As for the actual error, make sure BOINC is allowed through your firewall. boinc.exe, boincmgr.exe and boinc.scr need to be allowed on localhost (your computer) to communicate on TCP port 31416 boinc.exe needs to be allowed onto the internet on TCP port 80. |
Send message Joined: 19 Jan 07 Posts: 1179 |
As for the actual error, make sure BOINC is allowed through your firewall. Hmm... It did manage to get work, but it can't send trickles back... Are CPDN servers all up and running? |
Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 1654 |
There's been a lot of server access problems caused by them being worked hard with data extraction for the physicists. This seems to happen most at about 8am (and now also 8pm) UK time. (News item at cpdn.) |
Send message Joined: 16 Apr 06 Posts: 386 |
As well as being busy, some firework / proxy issues prevent trickes working, although downloads work OK. What sort of firewall and proxy do you have? |
Send message Joined: 29 Dec 07 Posts: 2 |
Thanks for your help. I did eventually guess that boincmgr.exe ran the experiment and got it back up. When I got it back up I was able to visit the appropriate forum where I read to exit and reboot the PC. I did this and discovered that indeed the experiment starts without any intervention on my part. I do seem to be sending a lot of trickles - every 40 minutes or so (although this reduced overnight). Is this usual? Copy of message follow: 30/12/2007 10:27:08 PM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 30/12/2007 10:27:13 PM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 30/12/2007 10:32:02 PM||Suspending computation - user is active 30/12/2007 10:32:02 PM||Suspending network activity - user is active 30/12/2007 10:33:03 PM||Resuming computation 30/12/2007 10:33:03 PM||Resuming network activity 30/12/2007 10:33:08 PM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 30/12/2007 10:33:13 PM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 30/12/2007 11:02:59 PM||Suspending computation - user is active 30/12/2007 11:02:59 PM||Suspending network activity - user is active 30/12/2007 11:31:35 PM||Resuming computation 30/12/2007 11:31:35 PM||Resuming network activity 30/12/2007 11:31:37 PM||Suspending computation - user is active 30/12/2007 11:31:37 PM||Suspending network activity - user is active 30/12/2007 11:32:38 PM||Resuming computation 30/12/2007 11:32:38 PM||Resuming network activity 30/12/2007 11:32:38 PM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 30/12/2007 11:32:43 PM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 31/12/2007 2:11:03 AM||Suspending computation - user is active 31/12/2007 2:11:03 AM||Suspending network activity - user is active 31/12/2007 2:12:04 AM||Resuming computation 31/12/2007 2:12:05 AM||Resuming network activity 31/12/2007 2:12:09 AM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 31/12/2007 2:12:15 AM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 31/12/2007 2:57:24 AM||Suspending computation - user is active 31/12/2007 2:57:24 AM||Suspending network activity - user is active 31/12/2007 3:01:33 AM||Resuming computation 31/12/2007 3:01:33 AM||Resuming network activity 31/12/2007 3:01:38 AM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 31/12/2007 3:01:43 AM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 31/12/2007 7:31:12 AM||Suspending computation - user is active 31/12/2007 7:31:12 AM||Suspending network activity - user is active 31/12/2007 7:32:14 AM||Resuming computation 31/12/2007 7:32:15 AM||Resuming network activity 31/12/2007 7:32:20 AM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 31/12/2007 7:32:25 AM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error 31/12/2007 7:33:25 AM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 31/12/2007 7:33:30 AM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error 31/12/2007 7:34:24 AM||Suspending computation - user is active 31/12/2007 7:34:24 AM||Suspending network activity - user is active Thanks again for your help. |
Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 1654 |
I do seem to be sending a lot of trickles - every 40 minutes or so (although this reduced overnight). Is this usual? It is a bit frequent. We could help you more if you posted on the cpdn forums, as we could then check your computer setup, look at your models, etc Hope to see you there. |
Send message Joined: 16 Apr 06 Posts: 386 |
Do you have 'keep in memory when suspended' set to yes or no? It looks like you've got 'run when busy' set to false, and judging from the way the trickles are being sent, each time you do anything on the PC it throws away the work since the previous checkpoint and starts at that point again. Usually most PCs don't have a problem with doing Boinc simultaneously to whatever else you're using the PC for (Boinc tasks run at low priority). As long as the PC has plenty of memory, that is. |
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