Posts by Bryn Mawr

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1) Message boards : Projects : Android - non working/inactive project removal from list
Message 115940
Posted 3 days ago by Bryn Mawr
In reply to kasdashdfjsah's message of 19 Apr 2025:
Thst first is not on the project list, and account creation is disabled.

Rosetta has unstable WU availability, and Moo wrapper doesn't work.

If projects are not on the list, and don't work on the latest devices, Android OS versions and BOINC version, they're not attractive and practical to use, in my opinion, and I won't recommend other projects than the 3 I mentioned before, and this is simply feedback, I don't care if you do anything about this issue or not, I've done my part in providing the feedback, which will give new users the best possible BOIC experience, if hard, they won't bother.


But repetitively providing the same feedback is counterproductive and will lead to the type of response that you have just seen.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc makes my computer boil
Message 115609
Posted 13 Mar 2025 by Bryn Mawr
The cooling does appear to be marginal, whilst the CPU has a TDP of 170w and the cooler can cope with 200w the CPU is capable of burning through 230w w at full output and Boinc will take the power output as high as it will go.

I’d set the CPU Time to 100% and the CPU Count to, say, 75% and see if that helps.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can Not Upload/DL completed tasks or new tasks
Message 115577
Posted 9 Mar 2025 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to jbastan's message of 8 Mar 2025:
Seems everything got cleared. No more pending transfers.

Any recommended projects I should add. PC is basically doing 1 task, sometimes 2 if networks behave.


I’m currently running CDPN, WCG, Rosetta, TN-Grid and SI-Dock - between them they manage to keep me busy almost all the time :-)
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can Not Upload/DL completed tasks or new tasks
Message 115569
Posted 7 Mar 2025 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to jbastan's message of 7 Mar 2025:
So now it's next day, there's 70-80 tasks in the "Transfers" tab from Asteroids@home, all finished with "upload: pending (project backoff: ###)
for ### it's just time counting down, trying again and restarting counter over.
pressing "Retry Now" does work (sets counters back to 8min+), but nothing really gets transferred.
If this goes one for few more days, I might just as well hit "Abort Transfer" and call it wasted processing time.
Definitely set Asteroids to not get any new tasks since I noticed the issue few days ago.

Though WCG is working today, but CPDN still being marked as deferred.


Asteroids is down with server problems, CPDN is being rebuilt and has no work at the moment, WCG is now running fine.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : I cannot add more computers
Message 115568
Posted 7 Mar 2025 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Javi's message of 7 Mar 2025:
Hello everyone
I currently have 5 computers working on multiple projects through Science United. I have the possibility to add more computers but I don't know why it only lets me add up to a maximum of 5. When I add a new one, it deletes the first one. I wanted to ask if you could please tell me how to keep adding computers. Thank you. Javi


Come out of SU and add your computer directly to the projects you want to process.

You get control, you get the credit and no restrictions.
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Open BOINC web... takes me to grcpool instead.
Message 115314
Posted 31 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Sandman192's message of 31 Jan 2025:
When synchronize to Grid coin I go to right click on the icon in the system tray and click on "Open BOINC web" and instead of going to BOINC web site it takes me to grcpool.com instead.
Ether rename the "Open BOINC web..." or make it go to BOINCs web site.


Or come out of grcpool and use Boinc.

As a member of grcpool you are not, as I understand it, a Boinc user. You connect to grc and grc connects to Boinc.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Disk usage problem - Rosetta
Message 115313
Posted 31 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Rumrunner46's message of 31 Jan 2025:
Rosetta@home shows 1.58 GB being usage. The Rosetta project shows, but there are no tasks being used or listed. So how do I get rid on that disk space or have Rosetta to using it? I do have that project set to allow more tasks.


There are close on 2 millionRosetta tasks available to process at the moment so you should be getting them.

How much memory do you have free and allocated to Boinc?
8) Message boards : Projects : New project ODLK2025
Message 115249
Posted 22 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Nataly-Mak's message of 22 Jan 2025:
Too true, there’s no way I’d join this project having read this thread.

Is this written by a serious guy?

Oh, boys and girls, don't go to that horrible BOINC project ODLK2025, Baba Yaga is there, she'll eat you!

By the way, mmonnin is in the project



https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/top_users.php

mmonnin
what are you doing in such a horrible project?
Aren't you scared? :)


Totally serious, with your attitude I would choose to contribute to another project and this post just reinforces that.
9) Message boards : Projects : New project ODLK2025
Message 115246
Posted 22 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Vitalii Koshura's message of 22 Jan 2025:
Everything that was written in this thread is related to your project, not you directly (and I intentionally pointed that we are not solving any technical and/or personal issues that are not related directly to the BOINC software). If you took anything personally - my apologies, this was not my intention.
However, you have ignored everything that was written to you.
And instead of fixing issues and politely answering people, you decided to attack them.
Please, be careful and always think what you write: this is not your forum where you have admin permissions and can remove anything you don't like; for insulting people here you can be easily get banned, and I really don't believe this will make any positive impact on your Project.


Too true, there’s no way I’d join this project having read this thread.
10) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 115177
Posted 8 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 7 Jan 2025:
Finally, at least something is happening, but WCG is not up yet:

503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.


Some progress, I managed to log in once but dreadfully slow.
11) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115060
Posted 22 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Bryn Mawr's message of 22 Dec 2024:
SI-Dock website appears to be down


Now back
12) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115059
Posted 22 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
SI-Dock website appears to be down
13) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115043
Posted 21 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 21 Dec 2024:
In reply to Grant (SSSF)'s message of 17 Dec 2024:
Some issues at Rosetta- on Friday (the 13th) they set about cleaning out all of the spam from their forums.
What happened was the loss of over 8,500 user accounts, many of them still very much active crunchers. Cleaning up of the clean-up is progressing, several previously lost accounts have returned.
Well, I had an account on Rosetta, a couple of years ago. I don't remember if I ever attached any computers to it. However it seems as if that account no longer exists. "No such account"
I guess they haven't been able to restore all 8,500 user accounts.


If there are no computers attached to it and thus no points it is probably part of their target and has been deleted as a potential spam account.
14) Message boards : Projects : Is BOINC dying (or dead already)?
Message 115030
Posted 18 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
Indeed, I currently have 5 active projects and I’m considering adding a sixth but as of yesterday none of them have any work to hand out - I am now out of work with all but one of my computers shut down.
15) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Use at most x% of the CPUs" not working at all
Message 115006
Posted 15 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
Try setting the value against computer not in use as well as against computer in use.

15/12/2024 15:24:15 | | - When computer is in use
15/12/2024 15:24:15 | | - 'In use' means mouse/keyboard input in last 0.00 minutes
15/12/2024 15:24:15 | | - max CPUs used: 6
15/12/2024 15:24:15 | | - Use at most 100% of the CPU time
15/12/2024 15:24:15 | | - max memory usage: 23.96 GB
15/12/2024 15:24:15 | | - When computer is not in use
15/12/2024 15:24:15 | | - max CPUs used: 12
15/12/2024 15:24:15 | | - Use at most 100% of the CPU time
16) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115005
Posted 15 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Harri Liljeroos's message of 15 Dec 2024:
Climate Prediction web site main.cpdn.org seems to be down.


Now working from here :-)
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not requesting work anymore
Message 114969
Posted 8 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
Are they the debug version of the flags? I thought debug gave more info than that.
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not requesting work anymore
Message 114953
Posted 5 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
You have a 6 day queue which is massive (mine is 0.1 + 0.05 for example) but the zero seconds required suggests that it’s full.

If not then try setting <sched_op_debug> on in the event log options for more details.
19) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114870
Posted 18 Nov 2024 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Dave's message of 17 Nov 2024:
Uploads are borked again. typical speed 7KB/s. Even crunching only one task I was producing data faster than it uploaded. Now with cpdn work running out and more cores available, I have too many uploads to get any more work still some clear.

#hurryupandwait


Odd, my uploads run very quickly to 100% but then hang for a while before failing. They’re small files admittedly but the actual data load appears to. be well less than 1 second.
20) Message boards : Questions and problems : Two quirks I've noticed.
Message 114856
Posted 15 Nov 2024 by Bryn Mawr
In reply to Dave's message of 15 Nov 2024:
I also get the message that another instance of BOINC manager is running when it is not. I am running 8.0.4 in Tiny10 a cut down version of Win10 in a VM. I don't know if this is a quirk of 8.0.4 but suspect the message is due to a file not being deleted when BOINC exits. If in task manager I see BOINC manager using an excessive amount of CPU I click the > to expand the list of BOINC tasks.


When this happens to me I don’t get said message but the file is BOINC-xxxxx, a 5 byte file in root on windows or in user home on Linux.
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