Posts by BlueCarbon

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : RAID fails while running BOINC (Message 37421)
Posted 8 Apr 2011 by BlueCarbon
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Try Ageless' recommendations, but I'd like to add a few things for you or anyone else having RAID issues.

I work for a hard drive company and sometimes the drives themselves can drop from the array for different reasons. Your drives may need a firmware update, or if you are running a cheap RAID controller, you will need to use RAID edition drives opposed to desktop edition drives that support TLER Time-Limited Error Recovery. Usually only the very high-end RAID controllers support TLER. Also test your drives using the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility. These utilities can actually fix some problems with drives, or at least show they are good or failing. If your drive is tripping over a bad sector, this can also cause a drop which is repairable by the utility if there aren't too many. Hard drives made today have spare sectors that can be used to replace bad ones if it cannot be repaired. Don't rely on the Windows through Scan Disk utility.

Also, you may think "I only have this problem when using SETI@home, so it must be a SETI@home problem", but that may be wrong. Anything is possible, so it can be SETI@home, but that is highly unlikely. BOINC may simply be using a portion of the drive where a bad sector(s) resides thus causing the dropouts.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My Wish List - part 3. (Message 36270)
Posted 30 Dec 2010 by BlueCarbon
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I normally have BOINC set to run after my computer has been idle for a period of time, but sometimes I want to manually run it while I'm actively using my computer as well, but to do this I have to open the BOINC Manager, click on the Activity menu and select Always Run. I have to do this three times, one for CPU, GPU, and Network.

It would be nice if the system tray icon that had one option to either Run everything, or Run Based on Preferences.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Feature Request (Activity) (Message 36268)
Posted 30 Dec 2010 by BlueCarbon
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I normally have BOINC set to run after my computer has been idle for a period of time, but sometimes I want to manually run it while I'm actively using my computer as well, but to do this I have to open the BOINC Manager, click on the Activity menu and select Always Run. I have to do this three times, one for CPU, GPU, and Network.

It would be nice if the system tray icon that had one option to either Run everything, or Run Based on Preferences.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Message received - 'Suspending Computation-CPU usage is too high (Message 36137)
Posted 18 Dec 2010 by BlueCarbon
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Check BOINC's message history for other red text. If you are low on disk space you can encounter your problem. Also make sure your settings allow enough disk space for it to use.

Go into Preferences in your BOINC Manager, press the Clear button, then exit. Go to the SETI@home web site and set your Computing Preferences there, then go to the BAM! web site and do the same. Now go into your BOINC client and synchronize your client.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : List of Fermi Optimized Projects? (Message 35573)
Posted 1 Nov 2010 by BlueCarbon
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I know that they list which projects support Nvidia GPUs, but does anyone know of a list of projects that are optimized for Fermi? I only know that SETI@home is, but don't know of any others.



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