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| 1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Manager not hiding at startup
Message 58233 Posted 27 Nov 2014 by Odysseus |
Well, so much for that theory: the Simple View also failed to hide itself following my last two starts, so I guess the problem is just intermittent. |
| 2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Manager not hiding at startup
Message 58191 Posted 26 Nov 2014 by Odysseus |
P.S. I’ve left Manager in the Simple View for a couple of shutdown-startup cycles now, and it has stayed hidden. So the problem may only affect the Advanced View: will test that hypothesis over the next few days. |
| 3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Manager not hiding at startup
Message 58113 Posted 25 Nov 2014 by Odysseus |
I recently installed BOINC v7.4.26 on my MacBook Pro under OS X v10.6.8; it’s been working fine except that the Manager always opens its (Advanced View) window in the foreground when I start up, despite having its Hide box checked in the system’s Login Items preferences. Not a big deal, but does anyone have suggestions concerning possible causes or solutions? |
| 4) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 47937 Posted 22 Feb 2013 by Odysseus |
Has anyone any news about ABC@home? The website seems to have been down for a couple of days now, as well as the BOINC server. |
| 5) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 36015 Posted 9 Dec 2010 by Odysseus |
RALPH’s Web server seem to be running but denying access. |
| 6) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages
Message 30877 Posted 7 Feb 2010 by Odysseus |
After a brief reappearance around the New Year, the Ramsey@home site again seems unreachable. |
| 7) Message boards : News : BOINC supports GPU computing on Mac OS X
Message 30876 Posted 7 Feb 2010 by Odysseus |
“Mac owners with NVIDIA GPUs can run GPU-enabled applications†is overly general. Only a couple of the latest cards shipped with Macs can run CUDA, and AFAICT the minimum OS that supports the drivers is two full versions ahead of that required by BOINC. |
| 8) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages.
Message 28588 Posted 9 Nov 2009 by Odysseus |
Looks like the MySQL database at Seti@Home went down. Let's see if someone over there fixes it before Monday morning their time. According to the front page (which is all that’s available from the site ATM), that’s not likely to happen. P.S. Still wondering what’s up with ramseyathome. |
| 9) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages.
Message 28324 Posted 26 Oct 2009 by Odysseus |
Anyone know what’s up with Ramsey@home? The server hasn’t been contactable since sometime around the beginning of September. |
| 10) Message boards : Documentation : BOINC History
Message 14721 Posted 7 Jan 2008 by Odysseus |
I guess links to any wiki don't work here now? [[BOINC History]] no longer produces a link. I’ve noticed that on a couple of other projects that have recently updated their BOINC back-ends. :( I don’t know whether the feature is broken or was deliberately removed, but I suspect the latter because the BBCode Tags pages (where I found out about it in the first place) no longer mention it. |
| 11) Message boards : BOINC client : Service install without a password
Message 10945 Posted 16 Jun 2007 by Odysseus |
Any ideas on how to make it a service (rather then just hidden) would also be appreciated. Create a separate admin account (with a password) to do the installation from? Once BOINC has been installed as a service it shouldn’t care which account is logged in. |
| 12) Message boards : BOINC client : Intel Mac shared memory issue
Message 10944 Posted 16 Jun 2007 by Odysseus |
Other programs you may use on a Mac do not make so much use of shared memory, so you are not likely to hit this limit that way. Just speculation, but I guess most apps that use shared memory only hang onto it for brief periods—or ‘recycle’ it frequently. |
| 13) Message boards : BOINC Manager : No Graphics since update to 5.8.17
Message 10941 Posted 16 Jun 2007 by Odysseus |
Have you ever run the script Make_BOINC_Service.sh which is available for download from the BOINC web site? Excuse my butting in, but I was wondering whether or not that script would still work with the current “sandbox†ownership settings. Will the file linked from the Mac Admin Tools page work with all versions of BOINC, or are there some that are too old or new for it? |
| 14) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Error Message Text Color No Longer Red
Message 10708 Posted 5 Jun 2007 by Odysseus |
The red is still there I think. However it is used for many fewer messages. Too many participants paniced just because the message was red when it wasn't really that serious; intermittant server problems for instance. I miss it, too (as I mentioned in the Wish List a while ago). Perhaps a second colour—one less likely to stir strong emotions ;)—could be used to highlight the ‘demoted’ messages, like “No work from project� I would also find it useful if some of the other messages were colour-coded: tasks starting for the first time, for example. |
| 15) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Using 3% of my CPU?!
Message 10554 Posted 30 May 2007 by Odysseus |
This morning, the CPU usage is down to 0-1%. I guess it must have been some startup cost, although I let it run through two 15-minute PrimeGrid WUs last night before writing the first post. IME when BOINC Manager is in a view that shows continually updated timing data, the Tasks tab especially, it uses a lot more ‘juice’ than when it’s in a mostly static display like the Statistics tab. Could that have anything to do with the changed behaviour? |
| 16) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Auto-balance credits for multiple projects?
Message 10398 Posted 21 May 2007 by Odysseus |
If I'm signed up for multiple projects, is it possible to have BOINC try to keep the number of credits about equal for each one? I have a lot of projects I participate in, and I like the idea of contributing equally to each of them, but it gets old constantly telling all but one project to not fetch new work, and to always have to monitor BOINC to see when that project no longer has the least amount of credits. If this is a feature then awesome, but if it's not, where should I go to make this suggestion? There’s no such automatic feature AFAIK; BOINC has no way of knowing in advance how much credit will be earned from results it hasn’t even downloaded yet. But a much easier approach than micromanaging which projects are allowed to get work from day to day is to assess the statistics, adjusting the projects’ resource shares according to their rates of production. For example, suppose that when allowed to run ‘freely’ for a couple of weeks, with resource shares of 100 all round, project A gets an RAC of 50, project B gets 100, and C gets 125. Setting A’s resource share to 200 and C’s to 80 should bring their earnings much closer together (at around 80); if they still seem imbalanced after another couple of weeks, adjust accordingly. Of course some projects have WUs that vary in productivity of credit, so if you get a run of ‘poor’ or ‘rich’ tasks you might need to under- or overshoot the target. But over the long term you should be able to come up with a reasonably satisfactory formula that doesn’t require constant intervention. With equal resource shares you will be “contributing equally†in a sense—in terms of CPU-time if not credit—but regardless, whatever metric you prefer can be implemented through the resource-share settings. |
| 17) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 5.8.17 non-installation on Mac OS X.3.9
Message 10372 Posted 19 May 2007 by Odysseus |
At least now I know it's my setup. I suppose you’ve run Disk Utility to verify the directory structure & permissions? Does Startup Disk show your 10.3.9 system as selected? (Sorry, clutching at straws here.) |
| 18) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 5.8.17 non-installation on Mac OS X.3.9
Message 10317 Posted 18 May 2007 by Odysseus |
I downloaded the latest BOINC software for Mac via the SETI home page pointer. When I run the installer, it does not recognize any of the disks on the system as a legitimate target for installation. I installed BOINC v5.8.17 on a G4/733 running Mac OS 10.3.9 just a week ago, and didn’t have any such problem. Anything non-standard about your disk configuration, e.g. a software RAID? |
| 19) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My wish list
Message 10076 Posted 8 May 2007 by Odysseus |
OK, I just installed BOINC v5.8.17 on my Mac G4/733, and the graph-related functions appear to work as advertised. Excellent! But now I have something else for the wish list: put back the rubrication in the Message tab. |
| 20) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My wish list
Message 10033 Posted 7 May 2007 by Odysseus |
A couple of requests for the Statistics tab: the ability to change the scale and to choose a selection of projects to display in the "All projects (sum)" views. 5.4.9. Sorry; I guess it's time I upgraded. I hadn't seen any mention of such features here … |
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