Posts by whynot

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21) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC doesn't upload automatically Message 75321 Posted 14 Jan 2017 by whynot	7. On a server scheduled connection. Used, but I am not certain by which project. Many years ago I've been making a challenge of PG. And subject task was taking something about 5day maybe. So -- all other projects in no-more-work, buffer filled homogenously and all WUs started at approx same time, couple of days with no network activity. And then -- BOOM! Scheduled connection! Point is, there's that thing scheduled connection but it's really hard to meet one.
22) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 70916 Posted 16 Jul 2016 by whynot	It took may be five years, but it's official now: ABC@Home is dead. At this moment ABC@home is no longer active.
23) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to control boinc with cron (linux?) Message 62619 Posted 20 Jun 2015 by whynot	Never did get cron to work, but I acquiesced and just ran my script in a timed loop in a tmux session, so I can kill the window and have it run in the background. Surprise! Users have their private crontabs for decades. Refer to 'man crontab' for educational purpose.
24) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 62556 Posted 13 Jun 2015 by whynot	Forum of ABC (if anyone remembers what it is) disallows login in. On BOINC side usuanl 'shut down for maintenance'. Is it finally dead or what?
25) Message boards : Questions and problems : Firewalls: Just what does BOINC want to talk to me? Message 62193 Posted 16 May 2015 by whynot	BOINC its parts talk to each other via remote procedure call, on localhost (127.0.0.1) only. They do this to be able to show in real time in BOINC Manager (the GUI) what the client is doing. Correction. BOINC client listens on any network interface available on port 31416. That makes it possible to control/monitor BOINC clients with one BOINC manager over network. However, for standalone computer with alone client it's OK to allow listening/opening port 31416 on localhost (127.0.0.1) and forbidding on any other interface.
26) Message boards : Questions and problems : Install on CentOS 6.6 Message 61677 Posted 18 Apr 2015 by whynot	EDIT: I see now -- too late.
27) Message boards : Questions and problems : Migrating from old ".sh" BOINC to admin (YUM via EPEL) and service Message 54631 Posted 28 Jun 2014 by whynot	Loads of. Move files in directory where client looks for them (permissions/ownership changes provided); client has '--dir' option; symlink files (probably worst case). I would recommend: disable system-wide client, create symlink legacy-boinc-data-dir/boinc-client (or whatever it was) to system-installed client (probably /usr/bin/boinc-client, it's debian here), and ignite it the way you did for years.
28) Message boards : Questions and problems : Use HDD for BOINC work files instead of SSD Message 53805 Posted 26 Apr 2014 by whynot	CPU usage is about 1%, so boinc-client is not working on any tasks. You don't judge by load. You look in logs. Second, #8 provided then #5, #6, #7 are completely unnecessary.
29) Message boards : Questions and problems : NSA-Free projects ? Message 52016 Posted 18 Jan 2014 by whynot	If science code that's delivered to you is readable (note: there's no requirement that science code being free, it must be readable, that's all) then you can reasonably believe that someone already took a look. Thus you can reasonably believe that science code really does what is said it does. If actual science code is under wrapper then that wrapper should be readable too but that not required (you can see with your favored system monitor that wrapper isn't actually running all the time). Then, enlightened, you can reasonable conclude is it NSA-related or not just don't run under control of fantasies (remember, you're paying taxes, so, you know). Otherwise, you can't.
30) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC manager doesn't connect in Fluxbox Message 51828 Posted 28 Dec 2013 by whynot	Couple of days ago I've assisted fellow cruncher who experienced that -155 too. I had to go thus I'm not aware how much successful he was. However, that's probably closest I've found.
31) Message boards : Questions and problems : Need tutorial - Linux console and BOINC Message 51827 Posted 28 Dec 2013 by whynot	Me would call this a "step-by-step". However, if you have difficulties pushing through some task please provide more specifics.
32) Message boards : News : New BOINC installer includes VirtualBox Message 51727 Posted 14 Dec 2013 by whynot	I won't actually care how slow the number crunching is if some programmer inadvertently or intentionally does something that I end up wishing she or he hadn't done. There's that other solution for this problem. However, that solution is totally unwelcome, thus it's not going to happen.
33) Message boards : Questions and problems : I'm confused by the scheduling order. Message 51609 Posted 30 Nov 2013 by whynot	3) Somewhat less friendly, but will work is to just leave the settings alone and have some abandoned and late work when you get back from vacation. The science project will send replacements to someone else. Don't abandon, that's not fair to project. Abort instead. For science sake, don't be late! There's a small percentage of crunchers who just hate to be overrun by late WU. Indeed, the percentage is small. But their hate is real and they are vocal. Abort instead.
34) Message boards : Questions and problems : I'm confused by the scheduling order. Message 51480 Posted 23 Nov 2013 by whynot	If you pause a single WU in the list, you will likely find a few surprises. Better -- don't. That will make BOINC to ignore that unit at all. Technically speeking -- it would be out of buffer. Then BOINC might request more. Me suggests to set projects to 'nomorework' at appropriate time. It might be too late though. 2shawn Try to see another obstacle. The farer deadline, the longer WU. Indeed, you can't advice BOINC about upcoming vacation. Unless estimated times are borked and/or WUs have been suspended BOINC will finish all of them within deadlines. Ignoring upcoming vacation it doesn't know about.
35) Message boards : Questions and problems : redhat 6.4; latest boinc not compiling Message 50906 Posted 19 Oct 2013 by whynot	3. ./configure --disable-{client/manager} --prefis=/usr/share/boinc First, I believe it should be --disable-{client,manager} (probable typo). Second, I believe it should be --prefix= (sure typo). Third, I believe it's about building server-only parts of code, then.
36) Message boards : Questions and problems : Dual Boot... can I continue working on the same WU ? Message 50066 Posted 3 Aug 2013 by whynot	easy-peasy, partner :) I would suggest aproach it this way: Make a partition that's dedicated to BOINC data directory. It doesn't have to be big, couple of GiB, I believe, should be enough. Filesystem should be carefully considered though. It should be either ext2 (you have to find way to mount it from win side; I suggest ext2fsd, from personal experience) or ntfs (go with ntfs-3g; shipped with kernel ntfs driver could be considered dead upstream, I believe). For gods sake, don't make it vfat -- vfat is brain-dead by design. Install client outside of that BDD (BOINC data directory). For linux you can go with vendor shipped client (if any) or the client provided by BOINC itself. That choice is up to you. Now you have to make sure that BDD is mounted before client starts. Obviously, it's influenced by choice you've made in first step. Cross you fingers, pray, whatever, because,.. In spite of BOINC data directory is called 'data' it's not data exclusively. There's code. And that code is for different platforms, you know. What if actual science code is placed under filename with no explicit platform? BOINC wrappers are safe, however, you must feed BOINC with apropriate science application (and, may be, wrapper) before client sees unfinished WU. Now you must do it each time a project needs to upgrade their science code. Then, you must make sure that you report finished WU from the same platform you'd been scheduled for. (Again, from personal experience, there will be problems server side if those platforms mismatch, even slightly.) Then, there are filenames in multiple configuration files under projects/ and slots/ trees. You have to handle problems if those filenames are not dealed with apropriately. (Why they should be? That could be handled with scripts though.) Did I scared you enough? Is it really worth trouble?
37) Message boards : Questions and problems : Killed in terminal and the computation stops Message 49538 Posted 8 Jun 2013 by whynot	May I suggest you reading this tutorial (in spite of fancy name it looks relevant) and follow steps described? Probably you don't have problems with BOINC itself but with that optimus hardware or bumblebee software. And we here are no experts with either.
38) Message boards : Questions and problems : Ubuntu: BOINC takes 100% processor time ALL the time Message 49194 Posted 18 May 2013 by whynot	That's how "CPU share" works. What was your problem again?
39) Message boards : BOINC client : Client won't communicate after (removed) IP address conflict Message 48833 Posted 27 Apr 2013 by whynot	Yes, you can. You can put your computers (even if it's only one) behind your own router.
40) Message boards : Questions and problems : Suspend all Projects Command line? Message 45433 Posted 25 Aug 2012 by whynot	Guess what? Indeed it is: % boinccmd --get_project_status \ \| sed -n -e '/master URL:/s/.\+URL://p' \ \| while read ; do \ boinccmd --project $REPLY suspend \ ; done

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