Posts by Dave
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| 1) Message boards : Questions and problems : "BOINC Manager is not able to start a BOINC client. Please run the client and try again" (FreeBSD)
Message 115680 Posted 2 days ago by  Dave
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I haven't used BSD but if starting from command line, try doing it from the directory where the client resides. |
| 2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Is BOINC not working or is it just me?
Message 115650 Posted 7 days ago by Dave
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Can anyone explain what is happening? Click on Tools>event log If there is no work available at the time you update, there will be a message to that effect. Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:57 GMT | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for the applications you have selected Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for Africa Rainfall Project Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | Your preferences allow tasks from applications other than those selected Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:14:58 GMT | World Community Grid | Sending tasks from other applications is an example. If I then tick the box in the home profile on the project's website to allow tasks of types other than ARP I get, Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:00 GMT | World Community Grid | Started download of MCM1_0233378_1807_MCM1_0233378_1807.txt Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:00 GMT | World Community Grid | Started download of e55b6bdba4ed0b4b6e315c6767d68e3f.txt Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:01 GMT | World Community Grid | Finished download of MCM1_0233378_1807_MCM1_0233378_1807.txt (912 bytes) Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:51 GMT | World Community Grid | Finished download of e55b6bdba4ed0b4b6e315c6767d68e3f.txt (48177891 bytes) Thu 20 Mar 2025 11:15:52 GMT | World Community Grid | Starting task MCM1_0233378_1807_0 After the messages about having changed my preferences. However even the supply of MCM tasks is a little erratic and I don't always get any. Edit: this feels to me more an issue with WCG than with BOINC. Might be worth asking over on their forums. |
| 3) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Backup" projects frequently returning work units late
Message 115639 Posted 10 days ago by Dave
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The only other thing to add is if you want BOINC to work things out, don't constantly change settings as each time you do that it has to start again. Or if you spend lots of time on your computer you can keep an eye on it micromanage it. |
| 4) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Backup" projects frequently returning work units late
Message 115633 Posted 11 days ago by Dave
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I have only ever had this problem when mixing projects whose run times differ widely. cpdn tasks often take 3-6 days on my machine. (Still a vast improvement from the days when they could take six months or longer on a slow machine!) Because my preferred work is all either CPDN or ARP tasks from WCG, supply of which is erratic in both cases, I settle for being more interventionist and when work supply is good from my preferred projects, I turn the others off. |
| 5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Boinc 8.0.2: Is it possible to move the data from the flatpack to another directory?
Message 115626 Posted 12 days ago by Dave
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I can't remember where the flatpack version keeps data. For Linux the default from either a package manager or compiled from source installation is /var/lib/boinc |
| 6) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 115625 Posted 13 days ago by Dave
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Glory! After returning to rolling my own from source, I have the option to stop running tasks on exit again! |
| 7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc makes my computer boil
Message 115618 Posted 13 days ago by Dave
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Even so, the current series high-end CPUs are actually rated to operate at up to 95°c (although 80°c is my personal limit). I try and stick to 85C but I am going to add another case fan to see if I can run another core or two even in summer. |
| 8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc makes my computer boil
Message 115611 Posted 14 days ago by Dave
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I’d set the CPU Time to 100% and the CPU Count to, say, 75% and see if that helps.I have the 16 core variant of the Ryzen9. Similarly I see temps going up to 96C if I utilise all cores. Certainly with the projects I run it isn't worth going into using virtual cores as you then get two tasks split across a core and total throughput is reduced. I go for a maximum of 14 out of 16 cores this time of year but cut that down to 12 so 3/4 of cores rather than threads. Again in theory my cooler should be able to handle the heat produced by my CPU but in practice it struggles. Right now with 10 cores active Tcl on Psensors is showing about 70C. Do you know which of the temperature measurements sensors on the CPU is showing the very high ones? If it is say the one labled composite or edge, I would be very worried as they sit around 40C even when three of the others go above 90C. Currently they are around 33C. |
| 9) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 115607 Posted 14 days ago by Dave
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Who would keep attacking a good volunteer-project like that?!I have no idea. the ex twitter platform on the other hand I could probably name a dozen or more people who would be interested in doing it! |
| 10) Message boards : Questions and problems : servers running BOINC clients stop responding
Message 115603 Posted 14 days ago by Dave
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It could be done via boinccmd and a shell script. It isn't something you can set up via config files or the gui. I could go to git-hub and put in a feature request but I doubt it would be a priority. |
| 11) Message boards : Questions and problems : servers running BOINC clients stop responding
Message 115601 Posted 14 days ago by Dave
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Rather than suspend computing above a certain CPU utilisation, I restrict the number of cores in use. For me keeping to N-1 where N is the number of real cores as opposed to including virtual cores allows my machines to always remain responsive. In summer when I don't use my main machine as a heater I go two or three cores less. I know that this may not get as much crunching done as only restricting things when non-BOINC work is above a certain percentage but it works for me. Actually, it would be quite nice to have an option to cut the number of cores crunching in response to workload rather than suspend it. |
| 12) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115599 Posted 14 days ago by Dave
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I have emailed Andy. Edit:The next batch of main site work needs to go through dev branch for testing and there is still some work to do before that so no one is missing out on work at the moment. Edit2: Andy is looking into it. Edit3: Fixed. |
| 13) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115595 Posted 15 days ago by Dave
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thank you! |
| 14) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 115592 Posted 15 days ago by Dave
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In reply to Dr Who Fan's message of 12 Mar 2025:goofyxGrid is back up and sending tasksBut unable to sign up without an invitation code. |
| 15) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 115590 Posted 16 days ago by Dave
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In reply to betreger's message of 11 Mar 2025:It gave me a few rocks then it ran out,Got a couple to crush this evening but only because some others failed with their hammers. One was a _3 |
| 16) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can Not Upload/DL completed tasks or new tasks
Message 115559 Posted 21 days ago by Dave
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Added climateprediction.net, deferred communication.That is normal for CPDN when as at the moment they don't have any work. I am waiting to hear from the volunteer scientist who is working on the code for some of the CPDN task types about the next work batches. They will probably be going through the development branch of the project first before any work is released for the main site which only came back up yesterday after being down for some work on it for about two weeks. Added World Community Grid, deferred communication.Almost certainly the same as CPDN. The work flow from WCG is erratic to say the least at the moment. Best place to address the issues with projects not working is their own forums which may or may not have answers. CPDN forum I and other volunteer moderators check most days so answers usually come quite quickly though we don't know about the timetable for work yet. |
| 17) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 115551 Posted 22 days ago by Dave
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March 5, 2025 The system seems to be down (again) - we will investigate. [url] https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html[/url] I managed to get one ARP task this morning before it all fell over again. Can't get onto any of the user pages on their site currently but BOINC seems to be contacting the server OK. I just can't change my project settings to allow MCM tasks. Getting no tasks available for Africa Rain Forest at the moment. |
| 18) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace.
Message 115548 Posted 23 days ago by Dave
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Bill Dare Producer of Spitting Image Dead Ringers and numerous other BBC radio comedy shows has died after an accident overseas. |
| 19) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 115547 Posted 23 days ago by Dave
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And now getting Feeder not running error from WCG |
| 20) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 115540 Posted 25 days ago by Dave
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I don't know if it is relevant to the tasks that will be affected by this but CPDN used to blacklist computers that didn't have the 32bit libraries needed to run the tasks under Linux and crashed everything that came their way. They could if they spotted this get their machines back to accepting tasks by contacting the moderators. Now they have 64 bit tasks as well and I don't think they are doing that any more. |
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