Posts by jives11

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1) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 118214 Posted 29 Jan 2026 by jives11	My PV queue is slowly shrinking . Fingers crossed
2) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 118173 Posted 23 Jan 2026 by jives11	I have 2550 and growing awaiting validation
3) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 117886 Posted 26 Dec 2025 by jives11	My Pending Validation list is now shrinking from 2500 yesterday to 1968 this morning. of course Rosetta has started to allocate me WU's, so that might be a factor, but hopefully a fix has been rolled out to deal with the backlog from August
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Projects Have no Jobs Available Message 116599 Posted 11 Aug 2025 by jives11	I think Asteroids, Rosetta and WCG may be well zero. I've had a few WU's for the latter but it's been a bit patchy lately. I'm not on the RNA project Rosetta and asteroids have been zero for some days. Perhaps try einstein , milkyway or gaia (all @home). All have work units currently
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc 7.16.11 on Mac pro 2,1 Lion, all cores working but CPU 98% idle Message 114504 Posted 9 Sep 2024 by jives11	OK, did a bit more digging and it appears to be memory constraint. When I dropped down to 1 core , I can get that one up to 100%
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc 7.16.11 on Mac pro 2,1 Lion, all cores working but CPU 98% idle Message 114503 Posted 9 Sep 2024 by jives11	Hi, I found an old mac pro, an early one 2,1. Upgraded it to the latest supported OS, which is Lion. I installed Boinc on it fine and attached to einstein@home. It works, its downloaded WU's and all 8 cores (2 * 3Ghz Quad Core Xeon) are running tasks in the Boinc management screen. the only issue is the machine appears to be idle, and each core is reporting 1-2% useage, with nothing else running. process monitor and top both indicate the CPU is mostly idle. I wondered if it was thermal throttling, and downloaded Mac Fan , which reports that the CPU's are around 50-low 60 degrees c, which seems OK I tried reducing the number of CPU's it could use, thinking some other resource might be low. The machine only has 4Gb of memory, but as far as I can see there is memory free. Any suggestions as to what I'm clearly missing ? I *could* install linux on the hardware, though I'm not sure if Boinc running on Linux on mac would find any jobs to run, as I guess it might declare itself as something exotic when attaching for jobs ? many thanks Jonathan
7) Message boards : Projects : yoyo@home password reset Message 114480 Posted 29 Aug 2024 by jives11	Any idea how to get your password reset for yoyo@home ? I've been through the process of requesting a new account key but I never get the email with the key, and yes I check my spam folder . Is the Project still managed ?
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : netbsd client location ? Message 113283 Posted 14 Dec 2023 by jives11	Thank you, trouble is this machine is not i686 compatible , having neither PAE or CMOV instructions. I think I will experiment with mprime which was fairly easy to install and see how its copes with that for a few days. Thanks for the pointers to the source
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : netbsd client location ? Message 113282 Posted 14 Dec 2023 by jives11	Thank you, yes that's a good point about projects I am running BOINC successfully on a fairly modest 2008 Dell Dimension 2150, doing Gamma Ray Pulsar detection. Takes around 2 days per unit. However this AMD K6 III clocked at 450Mhz is even older. Over on the reddit NetBSD thread mprime was suggested, and I'm running that now, so maybe the answer is to pick my distributed computing programmes to fit my menagerie of computers
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : netbsd client location ? Message 113278 Posted 14 Dec 2023 by jives11	Hi, another old machine has been dusted off and running with netBSD 9.3 i386, due to age (AMD K6 - no pae or cmov) . is there a boinc client binary anywhere for such a relic ? in this forum I found various links but all sadly broken
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : when adding a second machine/client , can I just copy the project config files from the first client Message 113262 Posted 12 Dec 2023 by jives11	Hi, I have one machine running BOINC participating in several projects. Works fine. Simple Q but I couldn't exactly find the answer. If I install Boinc on a second physical machine, is there a set of files I can simply copy across so it also works on the same projects. I'm running the machines headless from CLI, so simply copying a few xml files would be great, if that's all that's needed thanks
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : best projects for an aged 32bit Linux machine Message 113179 Posted 27 Nov 2023 by jives11	Thank you Dave. I noticed when I ran $ boinccmd --get_notices This message amongst the others. The only way I would receive this message is, presumably by running the boinc client and connecting to their project ? 2: (25-Nov-2023 08:10:05) It looks like you haven't installed the World Community Grid software yet. Download the software, and in a few minutes you could be contributing I wondered if they don't recognise the 32bit version ? Anyway, it seems to be doing work for Einsteinathome.org, which is fine. I have left the WCG project in my list, so when this current project is complete, perhaps it will have more luck
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : best projects for an aged 32bit Linux machine Message 113175 Posted 26 Nov 2023 by jives11	Thanks Toby
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : best projects for an aged 32bit Linux machine Message 113174 Posted 26 Nov 2023 by jives11	OK , I also joined Einsteinfoldathome.org and that is doing work, but have left world community grid also in my projects
15) Message boards : Questions and problems : best projects for an aged 32bit Linux machine Message 113172 Posted 26 Nov 2023 by jives11	Greetings, I have an old Dell Dimension P4 2.6Ghz 2Gb memory running Debian 12. Its 32 bit and running headless, with gui disabled I'd like to use it for something worthwhile I've installed boinc, and configured it for world community grid successfully I believe , but I dont think its getting any tasks as confirmed by $ boinccmd --get_tasks ======== Tasks ======== jonathan@debian:~$ I wonder if its age and architecture are a factor, and perhaps some other projects are more appropriate for these old timers ? Happy to work on anything worthwhile

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