Posts by David Geiser

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : 6.4.5? Think twice. (Message 21906) Posted 18 Dec 2008 by David Geiser Post: When I loaded 6.4.5 it didn't keep any of my projects, work queue or work in progress. This means that I will have problems with any project that has a quota until the work I had is overdue. That's really poor citizenship on your part.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 5.4.11 is released (Message 5291) Posted 11 Aug 2006 by David Geiser Post: Open BOINC Manager, Advanced, Options and slide the "reminder frequency" bar to the right. This way popup messages will only be showing with 2 hour intervals. OK out. Cool! Thanks. I've always had it set to zero so this is new behavior.
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 5.4.11 is released (Message 5285) Posted 11 Aug 2006 by David Geiser Post: boincmgr.exe cascades multiple 'Cannot connect to the internet' messages at startup. When I make the daily move of my laptop from work to home and back, I change the OPTION->HTTPProxy on and off. When I start the manager at work after I've had my home setting of 'No Proxy', it cascades a flood of error messages. I have to use the taskmanager to kill it and use Boinview to fix it. Bummer.
4) Message boards : BOINC client : Client Thrashing? (Message 4279) Posted 9 May 2006 by David Geiser Post: Are you using in a terminal server configuration? If so, boinc manager would have to be running on each user account in order for the idle detection stuff to work correctly. ... So is each user running the BOINC Manager? boinc.exe is running as a service (-daemon) and has my userid, not SYSTEM. The Rosetta application also has my userid. For 99%++ of the time, no users are logged into the system, not even myself. From my personal PC, I use boincview (preferred) or boincmgr.exe to check up once in a while. What alerted me the first time was one of my checkups told me that boinc/Rosetta has only been running .03% of the time. I signed on to the machine via terminal client and observed the thrashing behavior. Setting the run-mode to 'always' stopped it from thrashing. Setting it back to 'when no user is active' restarted it, etc. Stopped the service, restarted it, same behavior. Uninstalled, reinstalled, same behavior. The MS FIX (rebooting) is not an option. email me at david_geiser@agilent.com if you wish. dag
5) Message boards : BOINC client : Client Thrashing? (Message 4274) Posted 9 May 2006 by David Geiser Post: Which version of the client software are you using? 5.2.13.0 Computer information IP address Show IP address Local Standard Time UTC -7 hours Created 27 Apr 2006 17:48:25 UTC Total Credit 2,894.52 Recent average credit 183.21 CPU type GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz Number of CPUs 2 Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard Server Edition, Service Pack 1, (05.02.3790.00) Memory 1023.49 MB Cache 976.56 KB Swap space 2472.79 MB Total disk space 19.53 GB Free Disk Space 13 GB Measured floating point speed 1464.53 million ops/sec Measured integer speed 2788.35 million ops/sec Average upload rate Unknown Average download rate Unknown Average turnaround time 1.29 days Maximum daily WU quota per CPU 100/day Results 20 Number of times client has contacted server 66 Last time contacted server 9 May 2006 16:29:56 UTC % of time BOINC client is running 99.9878 % While BOINC running, % of time host has an Internet connection 100 % While BOINC running, % of time work is allowed 96.0984 % Average CPU efficiency 0.883737 Result duration correction factor 1.025137
6) Message boards : BOINC client : Client Thrashing? (Message 4262) Posted 9 May 2006 by David Geiser Post: I sent an email asking for help with this, hang on. tony Thanks. Since I used the Boinc Mgr to set it to 'run always', it's not thrashing. But, as I'm borrowing cycles from a server, I'd like it to return to 'Not while users are active', unlikely though that is. Tomorrow.
7) Message boards : BOINC client : Client Thrashing? (Message 4260) Posted 9 May 2006 by David Geiser Post: David, does this happen all the time, or just sometimes? do these times correspond to any puter event? Task scheduler event, norton scans, etc? have you tried leaving the task manager up and open to see what's using cpu time when this occurs? It ran for a couple of weeks with no problems and then started. Since it started, it happens all the time. The HW is a 2.8GHz Xeon, 1G RAM, 2G swap, with no signs of any contention for resources. I can watch it in the taskmgr...the performance graph justs starts 'sawtoothing'. There're no scans going on or anything else that might show up in the process list. If I leave it alone and come back in 24 hours, it's still doing it and has not made any progress on the R@H. It started doing it around 5.01 (Rosetta) and is still doing it on 5.07. It may have something to do with a two-core Xeon (even though I'm only using one) on WinServer 2003. I'm running the same R@H on an 800MHz P4, WinServer 2003, and a 2Ghz P6 Win XP with no problems.
8) Message boards : BOINC client : Client Thrashing? (Message 4258) Posted 8 May 2006 by David Geiser Post: OK, but you do know that by setting BOINC to run always, it now runs whether the machine is in use, yes or no? You also know that the science applications running under BOINC are set to a very low priority, meaning that if anything else requests the CPU cycles, that it will get those? Anyway, the trahsing could well be a side-effect of Rosetta. Have you asked on their forums if anyone seen something like it before? Yes, I do know. Yes, I also know. And I read the R@H boards every day.
9) Message boards : BOINC client : Client Thrashing? (Message 4255) Posted 8 May 2006 by David Geiser Post: Set up your general preferences under the Rosetta Project to resemble this: Do work while computer is in use? yes I don't want to do work while computer is in use.
10) Message boards : BOINC client : Client Thrashing? (Message 4246) Posted 8 May 2006 by David Geiser Post: I've seen this twice now on the same client. I have BOINC installed as a service on a Win2003 server and using only one of its two cores to run R@H. It's set to run based-on-preferences which is set to 'when no user is active'. It thrashes. Second by second, it switches between 5/7/2006 5:04:02 PM\|rosetta@home\|Resuming result JUMP_ALLBARCODE05_1tul__468_10532_0 using rosetta version 507 5/7/2006 5:04:02 PM\|\|Suspending computation and network activity - user is active 5/7/2006 5:04:02 PM\|rosetta@home\|Pausing result JUMP_ALLBARCODE05_1tul__468_10532_0 (left in memory) over and over again. When I set it to 'run always' it runs fine. Plenty of RAM, etc. Only rarely is a user on the machine and that is via terminal services. Two X (remove and reinstall) hasn't fixed it.
11) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Status Indicator (Message 3580) Posted 21 Mar 2006 by David Geiser Post: Try boinc_view. dag
12) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Storing Passwords locally (Message 3567) Posted 20 Mar 2006 by David Geiser Post: I use my laptop to connect to several boxes running BOINC clients. How can I store their (long) passwords strings locally on my laptop so that BOINC Manager looks them up for me? dag

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