Posts by rebirther

61) Message boards : BOINC client : possible problem task switching every hour?? (Message 52947)
Posted 3 Mar 2014 by rebirther
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Its better to use the cc_config.xml:

<cc_config>
<options>
         <skip_cpu_benchmarks>1</skip_cpu_benchmarks>
</options>
</cc_config>
62) Message boards : Questions and problems : Which CPU is better? (Message 52912)
Posted 2 Mar 2014 by rebirther
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What cpu will produce better results? More cores or more speed? As an example which one will win: 4x4Ghz or 8x2Ghz?


Depending on architecture and other hardware related things. For both with the same hardware = equal
63) Message boards : Questions and problems : Different points - WCG and BOINC (Message 52589)
Posted 16 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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If you click on Points link you can see the explanation how to calculate points in boinc credits.
64) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7 development discussion thread. (Message 52551)
Posted 14 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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Where do I find version 7.3.2 to download?


http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/?C=M;O=D
65) Message boards : Projects : Question regarding Quake-Catcher (Message 52533)
Posted 13 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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So if I wanted to describe the QC network, I should only bother mentioning the main one?

EDIT: I assume this is the other one you mentioned? http://www.ras.unam.mx/sensor/


no, this one http://qcn.stanford.edu/continual/
66) Message boards : Projects : Question regarding Quake-Catcher (Message 52529)
Posted 13 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor/
http://qcn.emsc-csem.org/sensor/
http://qcn.twgrid.org/sensor/

...What's the difference? Is this something geographically related, so that when a user in one country adds the QC project from the BOINC project list, the closest webpage opens, or what?


The first one is the main project, there is another one with continual, this is the testproject of 1. The other ones are only mirrors.
67) Message boards : Questions and problems : mining with an APU (es:AMD A8-6600K) (Message 52304)
Posted 3 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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i add at my pc an ATI hd7950. Is there any way to make BOINC use both gpus?

Now it see only my 7950 and not my integrated gpu...is there something i can do?

Thanks!


You need to create a cc_config.xml if you have not and add the line

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_GPUs>
</options>
</cc_config>

to it.
68) Message boards : Questions and problems : 1,000,000 WORK UNITS!!!!! now how do I sign on to Einstein? (Message 52290)
Posted 2 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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It's taken me darn near forever, but I have managed to complete 1 Million units. Now I want to sign on to a few projects other than SETI. I am trying to log onto Einstein, but when I try to use the BOINC manager to add a project, I don't see Einstein OR folding listed.

Is it a GPU thing? I'm using a Athelon II 4630, but I figure that that the big programs should be able to run on most GPUs. What am I missing?


Folding isnt a BOINC project, Einstein should be listed but you can go to the einstein@home homepage and copy the link there and paste it.
69) Message boards : Server programs : exporting stats problem (Message 52287)
Posted 2 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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Solution:
crontab -e was missing, thx for help ChristianB!
70) Message boards : Questions and problems : New Memory Problem (Message 52285)
Posted 2 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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I have no tasks running and both Einstein and Seti are telling me in the Event Log that there is not enough memory (<1Mb). Any suggestions on clearing it?


How much RAM do you have? PC specs? Do you crunch with GPU?
71) Message boards : Server programs : exporting stats problem (Message 52282)
Posted 1 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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The default supplied db_dump_spec.xml should work out of the box and require no changes. The output of the daemon can be found in the log_HOSTNAME/db_dump.out any errors will be there.

When executing db_dump manually you should first cd into the bin directory and then execute the cmd as specified in config.xml

You should check overall permissions and ownership of the directories in question.


Thx, ChristianB, was looking for the logfile but now found it. If I do manually bin/start --cron its working now but automatically every 5min its seems that the cronjob isnt starting or crashing.

With bin/status I can see "NOW" running but never stopped and no new update?!

Edit:
With bin/start --cron every is fine, without it its still stucking in running now mode but seems to be crashed without any log. This I can reproduce.
72) Message boards : Server programs : exporting stats problem (Message 52280)
Posted 1 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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I have made a deeper look into the cronjob. All my modifications are correct but it still doesnt work.

bin/db_dump -d 2 -dump_spec db_dump_spec.xml -->update my stats

test.cronjob refers to test root

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * cd /home/boincadm/projects/test ; /home/boincadm/projects/test/bin/start --cron

db_dump_spec.xml is looking into html folder

<output_dir>html/stats_tmp</output_dir>
<archive_dir>html/stats_archive</archive_dir>
<final_output_dir>html/stats</final_output_dir>

from the config.xml
<task>
<cmd>db_dump -d 2 -dump_spec db_dump_spec.xml</cmd>
<period>5 minutes</period>
<output>db_dump.out</output>
<disabled>0</disabled>
</task>

the <cmd> should be executed from cronjob (starts from project root "test")

bin/status is ok, tells me update every 5min.

5 minutes 2014/02/01 21:44:24 unlocked no
db_dump -d 2 -dump_spec db_dump_spec.xml

But somewhere I have a mistake??? Any help is much appreciated!
73) Message boards : Server programs : exporting stats problem (Message 52277)
Posted 1 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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Do notice that it very likely will not work as cron job/periodic task anymore. See config.xml how it's started.


Yes, thats correct, only needed for creating stats the first time but the cron job isnt working, tried bin/start --cron.
74) Message boards : Server programs : exporting stats problem (Message 52272)
Posted 1 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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You are trying to run it in root of the project directory (or whatever it's called) and apparently it's expecting to be run in bin directory.

edit: Of course you can edit the directories in db_dump_spec.xml. edit2: But then again, when run as cron job, it's run in bin so maybe you don't want to edit the directories.


Should be ok with the root dir but perhaps a bug somewhere? With sudo command I got the same error.

Edit:
Got it, I have changed all the files from ../html to html/
75) Message boards : Server programs : exporting stats problem (Message 52257)
Posted 1 Feb 2014 by rebirther
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I have the latest boinc server software running on Ubuntu 12.04

bin/db_dump -d 2 -dump_spec db_dump_spec.xml gives me

2014-02-01 12:34:12.2504 db_dump starting
2014-02-01 12:34:12.2507 Starting
2014-02-01 12:34:12.2527 [CRITICAL] Couldn't open ../html/stats_tmp/user for output
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

..html/stats and ..html/stats_tmp folder have chmod 02775. Where is the problem?
76) Message boards : Questions and problems : mining with an APU (es:AMD A8-6600K) (Message 52172)
Posted 27 Jan 2014 by rebirther
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more slow than the cpu itself?

i've always knew that gpu>>>cpu with boinc...

i think, even it's half than cpu, it's better than nothing, isn'it?


You can test it with a GPU project. But its better to use a GTX660 or a comparable card.
77) Message boards : Questions and problems : mining with an APU (es:AMD A8-6600K) (Message 52169)
Posted 27 Jan 2014 by rebirther
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why it's not good?


Very very slow.
78) Message boards : Questions and problems : mining with an APU (es:AMD A8-6600K) (Message 52162)
Posted 27 Jan 2014 by rebirther
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Hi everyone,
i'm going to buy an APU (AMD A8-6600K). This cpu have an GPU within (HD 8570D).

Can i use BOINC with CPU and his GPU both? I know that the GPU doesn't have much power, but what do you think about? is it a good idea?

Thx, and sorry for my bad english!


Yes, its possible but not good.
79) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc having "nothing to do" for World Community Grid on Android (Message 52052)
Posted 20 Jan 2014 by rebirther
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My recently installed Boinc client (Fairphone, Android 4.2.2) does not download any tasks for WCG, while my pc does. The phone runs boinc and the pc runs boinc/wcg software. Both use the same account and both devices have their own entry using device profile "Default" in the world community grid account settings. Any ideas?


Do you have select these sub projects which running with android? Its also possible to have low RAM.
80) Message boards : Questions and problems : NFS@Home, OProject@Home, LHC@home, RNAWorld, Enigma@Home, NumberFields@home all not getting new tasks (Message 52051)
Posted 20 Jan 2014 by rebirther
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My RAM is 4GB but except for RNAWorld, NFS@Home used to be getting tasks until they stopped.

And how do you edit the preferences?


In BOINCmanager-->Advanced-->Preferences. If you run a firewall and antivirus program, you must exclude both boinc folders from scan and autoprotect too.


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