Posts by Pepo

41) Message boards : News : BOINC Monitor (Message 37939)
Posted 22 May 2011 by Pepo
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I guess it should help. On a machine with 100% font size settings both 4.x and 5.0 versions were fine.
However I can not test the font sizes now.

Peter
42) Message boards : News : BOINC Monitor (Message 37915)
Posted 20 May 2011 by Pepo
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I've tried both 5.0 and 6.0 on other machine. Looks fine. But the fourth settings page (colors) is "garbled" - no uniform positions for colors and selectors, everything is cluttered ("at sixes and sevens") - chaos pure. Maybe it is caused with custom font size - I have it set to "Custom - 115%" (on Win7).
(Edit: The first page too.)

Peter
43) Message boards : News : BOINC Monitor (Message 37865)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Pepo
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Please post me added projects and I add it to gadget in next update.

Sent per PM (however you'll surely found many more around).

Still regarding the previous version (not yet seen the newer one):
In the task's tooltip, the first "CPU time" - is it a "Checkpoint CPU time"? If so, you might rename it and shift under the "Current CPU time" row.

You might also consider letting the user shorten the progress bar, to get a few more characters available for the project name (as a preference - how much). (I've got a bit more place by lowering the font size from 9 to 8 or 7 - another possible user preference?)

Maybe the Progress% should be displayed consistently with one decimal digit on all lines (now ".0" is not displayed). Maybe yet another user preference for the number of displayed decimal digits? (Usually 0-3 would make sense.)

Peter
44) Message boards : News : BOINC 6.12.26 released to public (Message 37857)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Pepo
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By the way, I had to create a site account in order to post this. It says on the account creation page: NOTE: If you use the BOINC Manager, don't use this form. Just run BOINC, select Add Project, and enter an email address and password.

"Add Project" only exists in BOINC Manager's Simple View. In Advanced View, to which my client's always set, it's called "Attach to project or account manager…". Even though I guessed the latter was what was meant, it proved impossible to create an account here by this means. The note on the account creation page needs to be either removed or corrected.

The newish "Attach to project or account manager…" is really the same as the oldish "Add Project". The problem with creating an account here using the Manager was, that BOINC dev does not host any crunching project (just message boards) and there is no scheduler listening in to respond... ( the renamed "Server status page" confirms it too :-)

But with the NOTE on the "Create an account" page you are terribly right... It is an oversight which needs to be corrected.

Peter
45) Message boards : Questions and problems : global preference custom suspend period (Message 37856)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Pepo
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Could you tell me what is the global preference to change the suspend period (of 60 minutes by default) when a user right click and suspend (mise en veille) the boinc manager.

There is no preference for this, it is a fixed value in the executable (Manager, I guess).

However you can work-around it using the boinccmd executable.

Peter
46) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Boin 6.12.26: Columns not movable (Message 37852)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Pepo
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No.

Peter
47) Message boards : Questions and problems : Missing deadline (Message 37845)
Posted 17 May 2011 by Pepo
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You can foresee that your machine will be off for a day. BOINC can't. But it could if you would set the "Computer is connected to the Internet about every .... days" properly.

Unless you do it and you set it to e.g. 1 second, it is then free to start an 11 minutes task even 15 minutes prior to deadline (OK, I admit this is too risky behavior, because the estimates can be off, but you get the principle.)

Peter
48) Message boards : News : BOINC Monitor (Message 37844)
Posted 17 May 2011 by Pepo
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My client_state.xml fortunately did not contain any unexpected characters, the gadget worked correctly out-of-the-box.

I've just customized the projects' definition file a bit and added a few undefined projects.

A nice tool :-)

Peter
49) Message boards : Questions and problems : Multiple Instances of BOINC Manager (Message 37733)
Posted 10 May 2011 by Pepo
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I get it, as BOINC's opportunity to spread around.

But the unanswered question: is then the existence of the "Allow all users to control BOINC" checkbox necessary at all? Unauthorized (from the installing user's point of view) users will get the Manager, but are not allowed to use it, not able to control the client and apps with it.

Peter
50) Message boards : Questions and problems : Multiple Instances of BOINC Manager (Message 37729)
Posted 9 May 2011 by Pepo
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The newer BOINC installers put the "run" instruction into the registry. The old BOINC installers used to put a shortcut link in the start menu startup group. [...]
Since the current (and likely future) standard is the registry startup...

OT: Having a reg. entry instead of a link is fine. Just how to convince the devs to also think of HKCU in addition to HKLM...

Peter
51) Message boards : Questions and problems : Multiple Instances of BOINC Manager (Message 37727)
Posted 9 May 2011 by Pepo
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Is it possible, that your (or All users') "Start Menu\Programs\Startup" contains a link to BOINC Manager? (BOINC installer likes to create an entry in "HKLM\Software\MS\Windows\CurrVersion\Run", even if the "Allow all users to control BOINC" checkbox switched off.)-:

Is there any problem with BOINCManager for this to happen

Most apparently it was caused by the BOINC installer. Both Manager and client just get pretty confused...

will it cause anything to ultimately stop crunching?

No, usually not, if the tasks already seem to be running.

Peter
52) Message boards : Questions and problems : is reserving one core for CUDA still adviseable? (Message 37647)
Posted 29 Apr 2011 by Pepo
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It has never been, but it may help some GPU apps, as you empirically noticed too.I'm doing exactly the same, but mostly to keep some free CPU headroom on any machine I'm working on. On a pure cruncher, I'd possibly leave at most some 0.25 core per GPU - i.e. not unless it is a 8 core machine :-)
Peter
53) Message boards : Questions and problems : Automatic Temperature regulation (Message 37456)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Pepo
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Folks, please hold on with 3.50 installation, there might be an issue with its dll...

Peter
54) Message boards : Questions and problems : end of wu's (Message 37385)
Posted 3 Apr 2011 by Pepo
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Will it be possible in the options, adding the option "let him finish before calculating the wu another work unit.
I know, I could also increase the time to "switch between "

You've got it. This is exactly the option, which value you have to increase. There is no other option, which would cause a WU to be calculated longer.

Peter
55) Message boards : Questions and problems : one thread of project by CPU (Message 37384)
Posted 3 Apr 2011 by Pepo
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is there a solution to have compute a thread of project on ONE core CPU ?

i would two units by project for engaged my 4 CPU cores, for any project be computed. Actually Projects send us 2 or more wu's. I don't know how limited send to one wu to compute.

Currently BOINC client has no own options to limit number of tasks, downloaded from a projects. It would indeed be nice.

Some projects has so far implemented such user-settable options. WCG springs in mind, maybe FreeHAL or DepSpid. But neither Cosmology nor CPDN did implement it AFAIK.

Some users has been trying to implement external utilities to enforce such limits.

Peter
56) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc does now not work with Smoothwall Gaurdian Installed...... (Message 37355)
Posted 31 Mar 2011 by Pepo
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A few years ago I've been 'living' behind a NTLM proxy too. From the time I call to remembrance that different NTLM connection modes have been implemented, for various nuances. Just where to find the related settings...

[edit]From what I've found out in the dust... Maybe some tips will work for you:



I remember some other long-lasting thread, devoted to NTLM problems, but can not find any trace of it. (Maybe it was on the mailing lists?) But I believe that <force_auth> was the last BOINC revolution on this field.

Hope it helps...

Peter

57) Message boards : Questions and problems : Controlling task concurrency (Message 37235)
Posted 20 Mar 2011 by Pepo
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I recently built a 6 core AMD system with an ATI GPU. I have my setting set to use 50% of the CPU's (so 3) but instead it runs 3 tasks over all 6 cores.

From what I read - everything's correct BOINC-side. 3 cores allowed - 3 tasks running.

If you mean the detail that you've expected (well, approximately) seeing 3 fully loaded and 3 completely idle cores, then it's up to the OS whether it keeps processes and threads using the same core, or spreads the load...

(Personally on Win7 and i3/i5 CPUs I observe single tasks mostly being kept on their cores, with WinXP and Core/Core2 CPUs rather spreading the load over available cores and keeping them similarly loaded. Maybe it's because newer CPUs can temporarily switch off power for unused cores, but on the older ones this was irrelevant.)

Peter
58) Message boards : Questions and problems : how about mobile (Message 37221)
Posted 19 Mar 2011 by Pepo
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whyyes?
59) Message boards : Questions and problems : Pause/Resume Question (Message 37217)
Posted 19 Mar 2011 by Pepo
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(You might need to set the current dir in the script to BOINC data folder, prior to starting boinccmd.)

Surely the 'current directory' for boinccmd would be the program directory? (boinccmd - though I agree 'same directory as the client' could be worded less ambiguously).

In any event, it didn't seem to be necessary when I tried it recently.

(I should have written something like "BOINC-programs-path"/boinccmd.exe, my bad.) No, sorry, I've really meant the data directory, as I remember from the past (not sure which BOINC versions, on WinXP) that otherwise boinccmd was not able to authenticate. Now with recent BOINC version and Win7 it was not necessary as well. Possibly the current boinccmd already gets the path to data dir from registry? (I'm too lazy and busy to check sources for sure. The issue is also somehow mentioned in boinccmd.)

In any event, it didn't seem to be necessary when I tried it recently.

Perhaps you have set the BOINC program directory up in the Windows path? As only then Windows will know immediately what you talk about.

No, not in PATH. I've just forgot to mention the path to executable, see above.

Also, just to make it clear, using the boinccmd tool in a script or batch file, will not change how Snooze works. Snooze will continue to run only for 1 hour, no matter what values you set for this boinccmd voption.

Sure, that is true. It is just a separate icon (for batch file for pausing GPU for multiple hours), sitting in my QuickLaunch area, because I was already sick having to suspend my PrimeGrid GPU tasks for an hour multiple times daily :-)

(Thanks, Paul Chism, for "kicking me" to finally write the batch file again.)

Peter
60) Message boards : Questions and problems : Pause/Resume Question (Message 37214)
Posted 19 Mar 2011 by Pepo
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Is there a way to change the "Pause" value? I realize that it will pause it for a certain length, then restart. I checked my messages, and it appears it will Pause for 1 hr., then resume automatically.

Other than Suspend or limiting the time when BOINC runs, is there a way to 'pause' longer than an hour, but less than eternity?

You can do it manually. For the local computer, you can write a script/batch file, which will call

boinccmd.exe --set_run_mode never [seconds]
or
boinccmd.exe --set_gpu_mode never [seconds]

See boinccmd.exe --help for details.

(You might need to set the current dir in the script to BOINC data folder, prior to starting boinccmd.)

Peter


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