Posts by Markus

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : remaining time to next checkpoint (Message 98957) Posted 31 May 2020 by Markus Post: When this calculation will not come, could there be a option to stop a task at the next checkpoint? BoincTasks (a replacement for Boinc Manager) has this option. It also can show how long a go a task did a checkpoint and how many checkpoints it has made. But it won't show when next is due. Just google efmer boinctasks. Thank you for that hint, I will look for that.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Remove and Then Add (Message 98895) Posted 30 May 2020 by Markus Post: I would like to give the hint, to check the project url while adding the project again. I just had to add the s in https by myself in one case. There is no need for a restart or reinstallation.
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Why not use whole numbers instead of % for multiprocessor usage? (Message 98893) Posted 30 May 2020 by Markus Post: To clear some things: Yes, I'm a developer, but I'm curently not develop at BOINC. So I would have to "learn" it first.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : remaining time to next checkpoint (Message 98892) Posted 30 May 2020 by Markus Post: While, in theory, that would be possible it is highly probably that doing so is down to the individual application :-( It should be possible to combine it with the option to log the checkpoints; BOINC can see, when a checkpoint is reached.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to use 100% from CPU (Message 98891) Posted 30 May 2020 by Markus Post: Yes, the problem was the temperature, there was pretty much dust on the cooler from the CPU. The CPU did run at ~97°C. After cleaning it, now I get up to 1.85-2 GHz or 75-80%. Sadly still not 100%, but an improvement.
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : remaining time to next checkpoint (Message 98779) Posted 24 May 2020 by Markus Post: When this calculation will not come, could there be a option to stop a task at the next checkpoint?
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to use 100% from CPU (Message 98778) Posted 24 May 2020 by Markus Post: I am running BOINC 7.16.5, Widgets 3.0.1 on Windows 10 as app, not as a service. I have set to use local options and set the usage of processors and processor time to 100%. I have a CPU with 4 cores and BOINC runs 4 tasks simultaneously. When I take a look to the task manager, in details every task use 20-25% CPU. The total usage in summary should be 80-100%, but it is only about 53%. I can also see, that the CPU runs at 1.26 GHz from a base speed of 2.4 GHz. So this seems to be the 53%. I'm not 100% sure, what this means. Is there a way, to use real 100%? I have tried to set the number of processors to 200%, to run 2 tasks per core, but that does't work; the input only allow values up to 100. Is there a reason, maybe on hardware level, why that can't work?
8) Message boards : BOINC client : Why not use whole numbers instead of % for multiprocessor usage? (Message 98777) Posted 24 May 2020 by Markus Post: Count how many people have supported you in this discussion to date = ZERO I don't need it for myself, but I can see, that this would be helpfull for others. So the number of other supporters will now be ONE. But this should also not be only a question of how many people support it. It could be also just a helper for the input. There could be a slider in the steps of number of cores and the value to save could still be the percentage. The important questions should be: Does it help? Yes, as described enough above. Does it hurt somehow anyone? I can't see any disadvantages. What is the needed time to implement? As a developer I can say: For a person, who allready code at this application, that should be a work of about 30 minutes to an hour.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : remaining time to next checkpoint (Message 98185) Posted 29 Apr 2020 by Markus Post: When the checkpoints are at specific checkpoints, than this could be displayed. Than this could be calculated by the current percentage per hour rate - by the manager or by myself. The applications, that checkpoint almost every time could send a flag, that say exact this. The checkpoint debugging I have already mentioned. Like now I have a work unit, that calculate since 2 hours and have reached not a single checkpoint. In this case i would like to know: Is the Checkpoint in 5 more minutes or 5 more hours? Even percentage could be a indicator. It has calculated ~11,5%. Will the next checkpoint be at 15%, 25%, 50% or maybe don't have it checkpoints at all? The problem by this watching experience: I have joined 12 projects and some of them with multiple applications. And I don't run my computer 24/7. This is the fact why I want to know the checkpoints; because I want to know, when will be a good time to shut it down. So one or two days will definitly not be enough to figure this out; one or two month would be more realistic. It is not really possible to remind every single runtime. Yes, I could do a protocol with notice every single application. But "why" should I do that, when it should be also implemented by the application itself? I don't see any technical problems, that makes it absolutly impossible. Edit: The same application, that reached the first checkpoint now after ~160 minutes, now checkpoint every ~7 minutes. So simply watch the work units and notice the checkpoints seems to be a real science I would really like to avoid.
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : remaining time to next checkpoint (Message 98179) Posted 29 Apr 2020 by Markus Post: As each implementation of each application is different there is no way to predict it from our end. I think it don't have to be predicted. With the display of the percentage, the WU has already been done, there should be already some kind of communication between the BOINC Manager and the project application. Shouldn't it be possible to add there a information for the time to the next checkpoint? The application by itself should be able to estimate it.
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : remaining time to next checkpoint (Message 98134) Posted 28 Apr 2020 by Markus Post: You have no control over when an application checkpoints. Only what is desired if the application is amenable. I don't want to control the checkpoints, I just want to know, when the next one will be.
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : remaining time to next checkpoint (Message 98131) Posted 28 Apr 2020 by Markus Post: Hello, in the advanced view of the BOINC Manager I can open the properties from each task. I would like to see there the estimated time to the next checkpoint. Background: I run the BOINC Manager, when I do something on my PC. When I'm finnished and want to turn off the Computer I look how long the task had been caculated since the last checkpoint and stop them at a time, that nealy none work is lost by power off the PC. I know the option, to log the checkpoint, but that helps not directly. There are three types of work units for me in this aspect: 1: WU that checkpoint really often and it's not important, to wait for them. 2: WU with middle runtimes to each checkpoints (~10 minutes). Here I can look in the log and estimate by myself, when the next checkpoint will be reached. 3 - the problem case: WU with long runtimes to each checkpoint (several hours). When there is a WU, my PC calculated 2 hours and there is still no checkpoint reached, it is anoying not to know, if the next checkpoint will be in maybe just 5 more minutes or 2 additional hours. Would that be possible?

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