Posts by jgoldsti

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 7562)
Posted 18 Jan 2007 by jgoldsti
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I am running BOINC 5.8.3 for Windows on a Windows XP machine with the profile set to "keep applications in memory when preempted" set to no. The running WCG work unit was preempted by another WCG work unit and the preempted work unit is still loaded into memory per the Windows task manager. Is this a bug in BOINC 5.8.3 or something that is being overriden by the WCG work unit setup and therefore needs to be reported on the WCG forum?
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 7541)
Posted 16 Jan 2007 by jgoldsti
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It turns out the problem was a beta version of another program that had a CPU utilization bug...it was consuming a fair amount of CPU in the background and I did not notice it. cpu_efficiency has risen to .38 and scheduling is starting to work more normally.
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 7535)
Posted 16 Jan 2007 by jgoldsti
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The problem turned out to be that cpu_efficiency had been computed as below .25 on this machine.....not sure what had caused this but it is steadily rising so hopefully the problem will correct itself.
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 7505)
Posted 15 Jan 2007 by jgoldsti
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One of the folks on a World Community Grid bulletin board shared how to setup cc_config to see why it was not pulling more work.
I ran BOINC with logging on for a few minutes and it reported back the following:
"2007-01-15 13:51:26 [World Community Grid] [rr_sim] result faah1231_d105n643_x2BPZ_01_2 finishes after 168168.786883 (23573.056801/0.140175)
2007-01-15 13:51:26 [World Community Grid] [rr_sim] result faah1231_d105n643_x2BPZ_01_2 misses deadline by 118092.291263".

If this means that BOINC thinks that this work unit is going to miss it's deadline, something is not correct. The work unit has a deadline of Jan 20 and is about to start in a few hours and is estimated to need 6:30 hours to complete. What diagnostic info can I provide to help isolate the problem and get it corrected?
5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 7500)
Posted 15 Jan 2007 by jgoldsti
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Yes, I understood that. My concern is that it is not pulling down more work units until it has completed all the work units vs. pulling down work units as it reports completion so that I have about 2.5 days of work units always in the queue.
6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 7474)
Posted 14 Jan 2007 by jgoldsti
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I'm also seeing a problem with 5.8.2 running on Windows XP on one of my machines. I've set the profile for this machine to connect to the internet every 2.5 days (it is only running WCG work units). It pulls down about 12 hours of work rather than the amount it requested (261000 seconds) and it is completing all the work units in the buffer before requesting more work units. On my other machines running BOINC 5.8.2 (using other profiles), the machines pull down the correct amount of work and pull down more work units as they complete units and report back to WCG. I've tried letting all the work units complete on this machine and resetting, and this does not fix the problem. The DCF for this machine is around 1 (currently .97). This machine is a laptop that is suspended at night while the other machines are desktops running 24x7. I was not seeing this problem with 5.7.x and with 5.8.0/5.8.1.
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 6941)
Posted 13 Dec 2006 by jgoldsti
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I just tried to install the 5.8.0 beta code for Windows on my machine running Windows XP SP2. I am getting an error during the install proces that says "internal error 2721 CAValidatesetup".
8) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 6612)
Posted 24 Nov 2006 by jgoldsti
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Yes, I'm running with throttling set to 80%....no problems so far. I have not tried snooze mode yet....I've read it comes out of snooze mode after 1 minute. Is this the problem?
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 6591)
Posted 23 Nov 2006 by jgoldsti
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I installed the 5.7.5 beta code on 5 machines this morning and so far it seems to be working well! I am not seeing the problems with work units stalling that I was seeing in 5.7.2-5.7.4. Thanks BOINC development team!
10) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC and IE7 (Message 6490)
Posted 16 Nov 2006 by jgoldsti
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Have you tried the 5.7.3 development code? I am running it with IE7 without problems.
11) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 6401)
Posted 11 Nov 2006 by jgoldsti
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Just saw this problem again with BOINC 5.72 running the FAAH application from WCG. Stopping and starting BOINC caused the application to start running again properly. Please let me know what diagnostic info would help to debug this.
12) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Beta BOINC 5.7.x/5.8.x discussion/problem report (Message 6398)
Posted 11 Nov 2006 by jgoldsti
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I saw a similar problem with BOINC 5.7.2 running the Help Defeat Cancer application on World Community Grid. The application got to about 270K memory utilization and then stopped using CPU (showing 0% CPU utilization). I have the overrides file set to use 80% CPU. It turned out the problem was having the preferences set to write to disk every 60 seconds....increasing to 999 seconds fixed the problem and the application ran to completion without a problem.



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